Are you bringing volunteers, clients or others back to your facility? If so, this questionnaire might be helpful to use with volunteers, clients or other visitors to your facility to assist in screening out those with potential exposure to COVID-19. If you use this document, please verify that every statement in the questionnaire is accurate with regard to your facility or make appropriate changes to it. Please see this article and podcast for additional information about returning …

On Wednesday, Congress passed The Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) Flexibility Act and the President is expected to sign it. The PPP Flexibility Act gives more time and flexibility to businesses, including nonprofits, that receive forgivable loans through the PPP. For more information, see this article.

Maybe. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has issued new guidance regarding when employers are required to report cases of COVID-19 in the workplace. If you have an employee who tests positive for COVID-19 and you have any reason to believe the illness may have been contracted at work, please see this link for some information about the new OSHA guidance and contact your PBPA attorney for assistance.

In Georgia, the Department of Labor requires that a Separation Notice be provide to any employee who leaves employment, regardless of the reason. The Georgia Department of Labor updated the Separation Notice form effective July 16, 2021. Use this link to download the new form. Please contact your PBPA attorney if you have any questions about the departure of an employee or this Separation Notice form.

Does your nonprofit make online sales to customers in other states? Until recently, states were not able to require out-of-state retailers to collect and remit sales tax solely for online sales. This article reviews recent changes in the law that permit states, within certain limits, to require out-of-state retailers to collect and remit sales tax for online sales.

Your in-person programming does not work in the current COVID-19 paradigm, but the needs in the community are now greater than ever before. Have you recently pivoted to respond to the new needs of your clients during COVID-19? Maybe instead of tutoring children, you are delivering meals to their homes or you have expanded from an in-person food pantry to food delivery. As you shift to this new programming, take a moment to consider best practices, minimizing …