Employment Law Updates | New Proposed Legislation

March 2, 2010

Massive Bipartisan Job-Creation Bill Pushed in the Senate

Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act
H.R. 2847, S. 3310, 2/11/2010

The draft Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (“HIRE”) Act of 2010 is a bipartisan legislative proposal authored by Sens. Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and seeks to provide hiring incentives for employers and extend unemployment benefits.

In a memorandum dated February 11, 2010, the Senate Finance Committee enumerated a number of major features of the proposed legislation, among which are the following:

Schumer-Hatch Jobs Payroll Tax Exemption. This provision would offer an exemption from social security payroll taxes for every worker hired in 2010 that has been unemployed for at least 60 days. The maximum value would be equal…

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Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Ontario Police Department

City of Ontario

Arch Wireless Operating Company, Inc.

B & D Contracting

Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee

Watkins Motor Lines, Inc.

Agere Systems, Inc. f.k.a. Lucent Technologies, Inc.

Tulsa Winch, Inc.

Ramsey Winch, Inc.

Norris

DP Manufacturing, Inc.

Auto Crane Company

14 Penn Plaza LLC

SBC Services, Inc.

City of Philadelphia

Pacific Telesis Group

Northeastern Land Services, Ltd. d.b.a. NLS Group

Pacific Bell Telephone Co.

LA Weight Loss, Inc. n.k.a. Pure Weight Loss, Inc.

Pacific Bell Information Services

Gold’n Plump Poultry, Inc.

Advanced Solutions, Inc.

The Work Connection

Cardone Industries, Inc.

Pitt-Ohio Express, Inc.

Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School

BVP, LLC d.b.a. Big Vanilla Pasadena

Lehigh Valley Physicians Business Services, Inc.

N.F.A.C., Inc. d.b.a. Big Vanilla Athletic Club

Lehigh Valley Health Services, Inc.

J.C. Penney Corp.

Huron Valley Ambulance, Inc.

American Insurance Co.

Murphy Ford Inc. d.b.a. Murphy Ford Lincoln Mercury Murphy Ford Inc.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

United Airlines, Inc.

City of Chicago

Equal Employment Opportunity

Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co.

The Star Tribune Company

New Process Steel L.P.

Scolari's Warehouse Markets, Inc. d.b.a. Scolari's Food and Drug

National Labor Relations Board

Rent-A-Center West, Inc.

EGL, Inc.

Eagle Freight Systems, Inc.

Industrial Division of the Communications Workers of America

ConocoPhillips

Visteon Corp.