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State-Mandated 2-Week Shutdown of Physical Workplaces for Non-Essential Businesses & Overview of the New Paid Leave Laws

Dear Friends, We hope this newsletter finds you well and taking appropriate steps to remain healthy in the face of the current public health emergency. We are writing to alert you to Read More

[New Version] Opportunity Zones & Qualified Opportunity Funds: An Emerging Economic Development and Investment Tool Worth Considering

The Opportunity Zone program is an important new community economic development and investment tool created in late 2017 by the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.  This program is designed Read More

Opportunity Zones & Qualified Opportunity Funds: An Emerging Economic Development and Investment Tool Worth Considering

The Opportunity Zone program is an important new community economic development and investment tool created in late 2017 by the federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.  This program is designed Read More

Changes in Massachusetts' Minimum Wage and the "Blue Law"

Changes in Massachusetts’ minimum wage and the “blue law” affecting premium pay for certain employees working on Sundays will go into effect on January 1, 2019. The minimum wage will go Read More

Marijuana in the Workplace

While medical marijuana has been available to Massachusetts patients for some time, the Commonwealth has recently joined a growing number of states in decriminalizing marijuana sales and use under state Read More

Newpaper Delivery People are Employees, Not Independent Contractors

Last week, the Massachusetts Appeals Court held that Gatehouse Media, the company that owns the Patriot Ledger (and the New Bedford Standard Times) misclassified its newspaper delivery drivers as independent Read More

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