Beginning on January 1, 2024, pursuant to House Bill 2068, Illinois employers located across thirty-eight (38) counties and townships will be required to provide employees with a “pre-tax commuter benefit.” This is one of a...more
Effective January 1, 2024, Illinois “covered employers” will be required to provide “covered employees” the opportunity to pay for commuter passes on a pre-tax basis pursuant to the Transportation Benefits Program Act (the...more
The new Illinois Transportation Benefits Program Act (HB 2068; P.A. 103-291) aims to promote the commuter benefits available to employees who use public transportation to commute to and from work. Beginning January 1,...more
Effective December 31, 2022, the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Employer Commuter Transit Benefit Program requires covered employers to make available for all covered employees a mass transit and bicycle commuter benefits...more
Bay area cities such as San Francisco and Oakland are well known for having local ordinances, and the City of Berkeley is no exception. Here are some of the important local ordinances that employers with employees in Berkeley...more
Beginning in March 2020, millions of Americans were forced to work from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the absence of a commute and the option of wearing sweatpants rather than slacks during meetings were...more
An increasing number of jurisdictions around the country, including parts of California, New Jersey and Washington, DC, are mandating that employers provide commuter benefit programs that allow employees to pay for commuting...more
Effective January 1, 2020, Seattle employers with twenty or more employees worldwide must offer their employees the opportunity to make pre-tax payroll deductions for transit or vanpool expenses. The goal of the new Seattle...more
What Are Commuter Benefits? The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) authorizes employers to offer commuter benefits to employees on a tax-advantaged basis. Commuter benefits may either be paid by the employee using pre-tax dollars...more
Penalties and fines for non-compliance with Washington, D.C.’s law requiring D.C. employers to offer commuter benefits to their D.C. employees will take effect beginning on November 14, 2019. The law, which became...more
Last month, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed S.1567 into law, making the Garden State the first state to mandate a commuter benefit law, joining cities such as New York and San Francisco that have similar laws. In...more
The tax reform bill (H.R. 1) approved by the House and Senate this week, and expected to be signed by the President, eliminates the deduction available to employers for the provision of qualified transportation fringe (“QTF”)...more
On January 1, 2017, employers across the nation will face a host of new or amended federal, state, and/or local labor and employment requirements. At the same time, there is uncertainty as to how the Trump Administration and...more
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie gave Pennsylvania and New Jersey commuters who live in one state and work in the other a Thanksgiving present when he announced that he will not terminate the New Jersey-Pennsylvania income...more
Pennsylvania and New Jersey commuters who live in one state and work in the other could face materially increased state tax withholding if a nearly 40-year-old tax reciprocity compact is terminated in January under an...more
The California Legislature will return from its July recess on August 1, and will devote that month to final consideration of legislation for 2016. The session has entered a somewhat anticlimactic stage for employment...more
In the latest in a series of laws directed at New York City employers, effective January 1, 2016 non-governmental employers with 20 or more full-time non-union employees in New York City are obligated to provide full-time...more
Beginning on January 1, 2016, the DC Commuter Benefits Ordinance will require Washington, DC employers with 20 or more employees working in DC to provide commuter transit benefits pursuant to the Sustainable DC Omnibus...more
In the past few months, a number of state and local developments have emerged that are likely to resonate across the country. The following is a tour of some of the most recent and significant state-specific legislation,...more
Effective Jan. 1, 2016, the New York City Affordable Transit Act (the “Act”) will require covered employers to establish a program allowing full-time employees to designate up to the federal limit of $130 per month in pre-tax...more
New York City’s Affordable Transit Act (Local Law 53) (the “Act”) will take effect on January 1, 2016. The Act requires employers in New York City with 20 or more full-time employees to provide pre-tax transit benefits to...more
In July 2014, the Council of the District of Columbia adopted and the then-mayor signed the Sustainable DC Omnibus Amendment Act of 2014, DC Law 20-385. The Act, among other things, brought about regulations and rules...more
Employers with 20 or more employees working in the District of Columbia have fewer than 90 days to comply with a new law that requires them to offer commuter benefits to employees by January 1, 2016. Washington, D.C. is one...more
Please join us for Sheppard Mullin's annual “Breakfast with Your Labor Lawyer." 2015 presents significant developments in California labor and employment laws. We will explain how these new developments will affect day-to-day...more