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  • Counting the Hours: What Is Compensable
    General Business, Homepage, Small Business, SMB Legal
    May 19, 2022
    by Barbara Weltman

    Counting the Hours: What Is Compensable?

    Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), you must pay workers subject to minimum wage rules for the time that work is performed. This ...
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  • Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Reporting
    General Business, Small Business, SMB Legal
    April 5, 2022
    by Barbara Weltman

    Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Reporting for Your Business?

    Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting is a report a business generates about its environmental, social, and governance impact. It’s usually done by public companies ...
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  • What's a Registered Agent and Do I Need One?
    General Business, Small Business, SMB Legal
    December 21, 2021
    by Barbara Weltman

    What’s a Registered Agent and Do You Need One?

    If your business is a corporation—whether a regular C corporation or an S corporation—you may want or need to use a registered agent. The same ...
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  • Getting Out of a Commercial Lease
    Small Business, SMB Legal
    November 9, 2021
    by Barbara Weltman

    Recovery Strategies: Getting Out of Your Commercial Lease

    The pandemic made a seismic shift in where workers work. Many companies now allow or require employees to work from home on a regular basis ...
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  • Noncompete Agreements
    Small Business, SMB Legal
    November 4, 2021
    by Barbara Weltman

    Can or Should You Use Noncompete Agreements

    Noncompete agreements are legal contracts between a business and another person—typically an employee or independent contractor—to bar a worker to compete with the business. Noncompete ...
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  • Disconnecting from Work
    General Business, Small Business, SMB Legal
    November 2, 2021
    by Barbara Weltman

    Disconnecting from Work

    With more employees continuing to work from home, the lines between work and personal hours can easily become blurred. Business calls, texts, and email are ...
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  • Breaking Up Isn't Hard to Do When an Owner Wants Out
    Small Business, SMB Legal
    October 19, 2021
    by Barbara Weltman

    Breaking Up Isn’t Hard to Do When an Owner Wants Out

    When you go into business with others, things don’t always work out as anticipated. Co-owners can disagree about the direction of the business and, as ...
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  • Hidden Legal Traps
    Small Business, SMB Legal
    October 14, 2021
    by Barbara Weltman

    Avoiding Hidden Legal Traps

    Just about anything you do or say, or anything you don’t do or say, is potentially problematic from a legal perspective. There are so many ...
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  • Revisions to Your Drug Policy for Marijuana
    General Business, Small Business, SMB Legal
    July 8, 2021
    by Barbara Weltman

    New Revisions to Your Drug Policy for Marijuana

    This area of the law is changing rapidly and making it challenging for employers to fix their workplace polices. A year ago, our blog addressed many ...
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  • Privacy Issues
    General Business, Small Business, SMB Legal
    April 1, 2021
    by Barbara Weltman

    Privacy Issues in the Age of COVID-19

    Privacy issues concern your employees, your customers, and your company information. While the pandemic is waning, many of the business practices adopted in the past ...
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  • Business Policies
    General Business, Small Business, SMB Legal
    March 30, 2021
    by Barbara Weltman

    New Business Terminology Impacting Your Business Policies

    During 2020, many businesses were in survival mode, focusing attention on how to get by during the lockdowns and other restrictions they faced. This left ...
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  • American Made - What Does It Mean?
    General Business, Small Business, SMB Legal
    March 11, 2021
    by Barbara Weltman

    American Made — What Does It Mean?

    “America” includes all of the Western Hemisphere, and North America is the United States, Canada, and Mexico. So “American made” is a nebulous term. There ...
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  • Preparing for Economic Changes: Closing Books for 2020
    General Business, Small Business, SMB Financial, SMB Legal, SMB Taxes
    December 31, 2020
    by Barbara Weltman

    Preparing for Economic Changes: Closing Your Books for 2020

    2020 has come to an end. If you are still in business, congratulations. The statistics on small business closures are grim. Yelp found that 60% ...
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  • Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 What's In It for You?
    General Business, Small Business, SMB Legal, SMB Taxes
    December 30, 2020
    by Barbara Weltman

    Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021: What’s in It for You?

    On December 27, 2020, a massive new law was signed by the President to fund the federal government through the end of fiscal year 2021 ...
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  • Shoplifting
    General Business, Small Business, SMB Financial, SMB Legal
    December 29, 2020
    by Barbara Weltman

    Shoplifting: 5 Actions to Address the Problem

    Last year, there were over a million shoplifting cases reported, with an average of $318 lost in each incident. But these are only the cases ...
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  • Out with the Old, In with the New, What Does it Mean for Small Business
    General Business, Small Business, SMB Legal, SMB Taxes
    December 22, 2020
    by Barbara Weltman

    In D.C. It's Out with the Old and In with the New: What it Means ...

    What a new administration means for small business This year’s election results mean changes…a new administration and a new Congress. What affect this will have ...
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  • Business Owner's Documents Review - Estate Planning
    General Business, Small Business, SMB Legal
    December 17, 2020
    by Barbara Weltman

    Business Owner’s Documents Review: Estate Planning Issues

    “[I]n this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin COVID-19 has resulted in nearly 290,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2020. ...
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  • © Rawpixelimages | Dreamstime.com - Group Of Business People In The Office Photo
    Small Business, SMB Legal
    July 7, 2016
    by Barbara Weltman

    Dress Codes Are Dead?

    That’s what the New York Times said in a piece in the Fashion & Style section in May entitled The End of the Office Dress ...
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Barbara’s Recent Posts

  • Counting the Hours: What Is Compensable? May 19, 2022
  • Mental Health in the Workplace: What Can Employers Do? May 17, 2022
  • You Pay Company Expenses: Who Takes the Deduction? May 12, 2022
  • Start-Up Ideas for Success: Getting the Right Insurance May 10, 2022
  • Honoring Mothers in the Workplace May 5, 2022
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  • Summer Interns: An Answer to the Employee Shortage? April 28, 2022
  • 5 Ways for Business Owners to Give Back April 26, 2022
  • 5 Remote Training Best Practices for Your Business April 22, 2022
  • What to Do about Rising Interest Rates: 5 Ways to Prepare April 21, 2022
  • Employers’ Tax Burden for Having Remote Workers April 19, 2022
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