To HIRE or not to HIRE?

The Hir­ing Incen­tives to Restore Employ­ment Act (HIRE) was signed in to law by Pres­i­dent Obama on March 18, 2010. If an employer hires a worker after Feb­ru­ary 3, 2010 and before Jan­u­ary 1, 2011 and this worker has been out of worker for more than 60 days, the employer is [...] Read more »

Obama Signs COBRA Subsidy Extension

Con­gress sent a $636 bil­lion defense mea­sure to the pres­i­dent last Sat­ur­day, Decem­ber 20, 2009; Obama signed it into law.  With the stroke of a pen, the pop­u­lar COBRA sub­sidy was enhanced and extended.  Don’t you just love how lit­tle one has to do with the other? Laid-off work­ers wor­ried about [...] Read more »