Business Owners and the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)? Are You Prepared to Comply?
A new federal law will take effect on January 1, 2024. This new law, the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) shall impact many small business owners. It is an additional item of compliance for business owners who have LLCs, corporations, or other state-level registered entities. Here in Hawaii, if you registered your business entity with the […]
Business Is Good, But Why Am I Having Issues?
One of the most common issues we assist our small and medium size business clients with are payment disputes. Specifically, in the construction industry, payment delays can become the make it or break it difference in a small or medium size firm. This can be instigated from the type of contract used, or just unwarranted […]
Compliance Issues to Consider when Remote Working
In last week’s bLAWg post, I discussed the remote working trend and how some industries are adopting it permanently. Remote work is changing the way businesses operate. Obviously, one critical area is employer-employee interaction. Today’s post provides a listicle of some of the compliance and legal issues to consider when preparing a permanent work from […]
Remote Working: Is the Trend Here to Stay?
Generally, when larger companies change their workflow arrangement to comply with new regulations, small and medium-sized businesses tend to follow suit. Remember your email inbox when the largest retailers and social media giants updated their web/app privacy policies in the face of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? Smaller companies then tended to follow suit […]
Stay-At-Home Order Extended: Is Hiking Solo Even Appropriate?
Once again, we have a stay-at-home order for O‘ahu, from now through September 23, 2020. There are some new exceptions carved out in this order, which should involve a personal risk/reward analysis. For example, you are now allowed to go hiking, but only “solo.” This means you may not hike in any size group, even […]
August is Pedestrian Safety Month: Walk Wise Tips
Every year, dozens of pedestrians are killed in Hawaii while crossing the street, walking along roadways, or traversing our sidewalks. According to the State of Hawaii Preliminary Traffic Fatalities Report, from January 1 through July 30, 2020 there were eight pedestrian fatalities. This number is considered lower than some years, but is likely impacted by […]
What are the Consequences for Not Wearing a Mask? *COVID-19 UPDATE*
Hawaii COVID-19 Spikes Today, Hawaii reported 18 new cases of Covid-19, which is part of a two week trend of rising confirmed cases. The rise in confirmed cases is being attributed to the “reopening” of the economy and daily activities. Part and parcel to that is another concerning trend. As we are emerging from our […]
Can you Charge a COVID Fee?
Can a business add additional fees and charges to a bill due to COVID-19? Yes. Consider the additional costs to build barricades, close off every other table, provide enough disinfectant, and sanitizer. Also supplying disposable personal protective equipment (PPE) for employees. Obviously, that costs money. Additionally, for those of you in the food industry you […]
Hawaii’s Headed Toward Reopening
Where is the Hawaii economy for reopening? Where can an owner get guidance to reopen? So here in Hawaii the economy is beginning to reopen. In Honolulu, hair, nail, lash, and in general beauty operators and services were allowed to re-open past Friday. In Maui, most businesses will be allowed to reopen on June 1st, […]
How Can I Hunt Boar in Hawaii?
Happy Lunar New Year! As some of you know I do a post every year related to the Chinese zodiac animal of the New Year. Last year it was about landlord’s charging extra rent for dogs. The year prior to that one was, can you keep chickens in your backyard. Going to back when I […]