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To reduce heat-related workplace illnesses and injuries, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has increased its scrutiny of work activities that expose employees to heat-related hazards. OSHA recently announced that it will implem…

Earlier this year, a massive cyberattack impacted millions of Microsoft users around the globe, including nine government agencies and 60,000 private companies in the United States. In another 2021 attack, a cybercriminal attempted to poison the wate…

“Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal and Greed” is a new Netflix documentary that focuses on the late artist’s life and the battle for the multimillion-dollar corporation that owns Ross’s name, likeness, and intellectual property. While also…

The pandemic has drummed up many questions surrounding the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), including what it is and who it applies to. In particular, a number of employers have wondered if it is a HIPAA violation to ask a…

Newer federal legislation, if signed into law, would make it easier for depository institutions (banks, credit unions, and similar financial institutions) to provide banking services to legitimate cannabis-related businesses. The Safe (Secure and Fai…

Businesses that survived the pandemic may soon have another problem: a quarter of their staff may leave their jobs. According to a recent Microsoft report called “The Next Great Disruption is Hybrid Work – Are We Ready?” up to 41 percent of wor…

Whenever you sell businesses or investment property and you have a gain, you generally have to pay tax on the gain at the time of sale. IRS Section 1031 provides an exception and allows you to postpone paying tax on the gain if you reinvest the proce…

President Joe Biden recently signed an executive order encouraging the Federal Trade Commission to limit or ban the use of non-compete agreements. In addition, there is a bill in Michigan’s legislature which, if signed into law, would create restri…