COMPLIANCE CORNER

Colorado

After receiving new details from Colorado, we have updated the Colorado Sick Leave Plan to 48 hours. We also made sure that employees cannot carryover more than 48 hours.

This means that employers can count the amount of unused sick leave that is carried over to a subsequent year toward the employee’s entitlement to accrue sick leave hours in the subsequent year. An employee who carried over the full 48 hours from year one into year two thus does not accrue any additional hours in year two. The 48 hours of carried-over sick leave counts toward and fully satisfies the sick leave entitlement in year two.

This was released on September 28, 2022. We have reached out to the employers that we impacted to adjust those employees that went over 48 hours.

Sick Leave (Accrual) Overview

Washington

We have updated our Standard Occupational Code Article to reflect Washington. Washington is requiring Standard Occupational Classification to report SOC codes with your fourth quarter tax report. Greenshades is updated to reflect the new change for reporting purposes. For more information, visit Standard Occupational Code (SOC) Support.

San Francisco, CA

San Francisco PHEL (Public Health Emergency Leave) is a new accrual plan that was released by Avionté on September 28, 2022. This plan has a front-loading balance of 40 hours effective October 1, 2022 to December 31, 2022 and will be updated to 80 hours on January 1, 2023 per the regulation. Public Health Emergency Leave Ordinance | Office of Labor Standards Enforcement (sfgov.org)

You will need to determine if employees should have this plan assigned to them.  If so, start by making the plan active on the Employer> Accrual tab in Admin Tools. Then make the plan active on each employee that is eligible.  For part-time or variable employees, you can reduce the amount of leave by editing the “initial balance” field on the employee accrual. For more information, review Accruals - Overview and Sick Leave (Accrual) Overview.

Federal W4

The standard W4 that is provide by Avionté includes mapping functionality to back office that cannot be altered or customized. The only fields on the form that can be changed are the employee information fields. Learn more Customizing Pre-Populated Employer Information.

Georgia

GA G4 for BOLD and AERO Front Office was updated to ensure that whole numbers are appearing on the total allowances section. You will want to upload this new version into Avionté and activate in BOLD under talent onboarding tasks.

For more information, review:

• Adobe Sign: Creating & Mapping Adobe Sign Document Templates
• Adobe Sign Mapping: AviontéAERO
• Upload a standard form into Adobe Sign
• Talent Onboarding Tasks

California

California Supplemental Sick Leave Extended Again through 12/31/2022.

Importantly, the amendment does not provide employees with any additional SPSL to use, but merely extends the period during which employees who have not exhausted their SPSL allotments may use such leave.

District of Columbia

After more than two years of delay and amendment, the District of Columbia’s Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2020, which was introduced in the pre-pandemic days of 2020, will finally take legal effect on October 1, 2022. Efforts to amend the 2020 act culminated in the Non-Compete Clarification Amendment Act of 2022 (D.C. Act 24-526), which the mayor signed into law on July 27, 2022. Read the Act

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