Author: The Law Office of Eric R. Brown
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Vaxxed and Masked
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] One of these days I won’t be writing about COVID anymore; today is not that day. 2021 has been a year where we have been continually turning the corner. It’s a long corner my friends. We’re still turning it. And new issues keep popping up as we…
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COVID Protections As We Reopen
I thought things were going to be different by now. I thought I could forget about wearing a mask. I thought I could go out to dinner and not worry about virus exposure. I thought I could pop into a coffee shop and sit down, drink my coffee, and read the news. Maybe I…
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Tax Policy & Organized Workers
For a while now, I have thought that there are two key reasons that the middle class has gotten squeezed in our growing economy over the last forty years. The first is the change in tax policy enacted during the Reagan administration that reduced the highest marginal tax rate on high earners from seventy…
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Claims of Overpayment on Unemployment
I’ve been handling employment and labor cases for a quarter of a century. In that time I’ve helped lots of folks with unemployment claims. Out of the hundreds of cases I have handled, I only had one that involved a claimed overpayment of benefits in those twenty-five years. Overpayments usually happen because an employee who is not…
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The Infrastructure Bill: Who Benefits, Who has Funded It?
It is appropriate that April is the month we celebrate fools, because April is the month that the IRS comes calling looking for our money. And if you are like me, you dutifully remit your payments to the tax man throughout the year, whether it is weekly or quarterly. And Uncle Sam takes that cash…
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500 Pounds of Pennies As A Paycheck
I was getting interviewed last week by a podcaster who asked me what was interesting to me about labor and employment law. I am sort of a nerd about my field of practice. The ways that folks interrelate with each other interests me. The ways that people react and constrain themselves according to law is…
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The FFCRA Will Help Rebuild Our Economy
Last year at this time the world was in the midst of falling apart. I remember I was watching an NBA basketball game on ESPN when they suddenly announced that the game was cancelled. Soon, the NCAA conference tournaments were shutting down, and then we found out that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson had COVID. …
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What If Your employer Has Not Paid You With The PPP Loan?
I received an interesting call from a client last week about PPP loans and how they impact employees of businesses that receive the loans. Just as a refresher: last year, shortly after the nation shut down and the economy became a fully-loaded bullet train filled with restaurant and gym owners headed toward a bridge abutment,…
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The CROWN Act
I am 52 years old. I am not as woke as the up and coming generations, for the most part. I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember. Growing up in an Irish-Italian Catholic home in Town Plot, we were surrounded by people like us. But my Dad coached basketball…
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Connecticut’s COVID Vaccination Process
Last Monday folks all over the state were getting ready to take a peek at the light at the end of the tunnel. Last Monday was the day that the Lamont administration was set to announce that residents with pre-existing conditions and co-morbidities would be eligible to get in line for a COVID vaccination. And…
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