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Social Media Harassment & How You Can Legally Face It
There are a lot of crackpots in the world. Social media helped them rise to the top (or sink to the bottom, as it were). COVID gave them free time to shout their drivel from the social media rooftops. But this is America, and our First and most important Amendment says that we cannot…
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The Role of Businesses in Eradicating the Pandemic
The COVID numbers keep getting better, but now we are hearing warnings over the last week that we may never reach herd immunity. Today I heard a report from the New York Times, relaying a report from the CDC, that in March eighteen residents of a nursing home in Kentucky who had been vaccinated…
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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,…
The Law Office of Eric R. Brown 