Pub. 2 2020 Issue 6

It’s been a tough year. Show your employees that you appreciate their hard work this holiday season with a thoughtful and useful gift! NHADA has made the gift search easy with these curated favorites. Rep your brand in style with these awesome branded products and apparel that your team will love!

Many things have changed over the past several months, and one major change is people’s expectations about hygiene and cleanliness. Now, more than ever, people want to know that the places they go to are as hygienic as possible — especially the restroom.

Prior to the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Second Injury Fund (SIF) was established to encourage employers to hire individuals with preexisting permanent physical or mental impairments. The SIF is still in existence today.

You don’t want to get into trouble with the Federal Trade Commission to fail to post or not follow the Federal Trade Commission Buyer Guide – a most basic rule of selling cars. These FAQs may help.

When cold weather sets in, service departments often close their garage doors. This has an immediate impact on the shop’s air quality, which can lead to service technician complaints centered on inadequate shop ventilation. Vehicle exhaust is loaded with thousands of contaminants resulting from the incomplete combustion of fuel. The primary culprit and largest component of exhaust that threatens employee health is carbon monoxide.

COMPLIANCE CHECKLIST FOR W-2s, 1099s,
AND CASH REPORTING:
1. Have you included the following items in each employee’s final payroll, which will be included on the Form W-2?

Election Day has come and gone and most all of the dust has settled. Let’s focus on what we know in New Hampshire, Washington D.C., and elsewhere.

We recently shared an article on the increasing wait time at some urgent care locations for medical treatment and drug testing. Well, in typical 2020 fashion, some things have changed already. The centers that were offering online check-in have temporarily paused that service as the volume of patients continues to grow, and the service was not showing the benefit as hoped.

Is your business prepared for the winter?
The winter may conjure up comfort with imagery of falling snow, sitting by a fire, hitting the slopes, and the holidays, but the cold hard truth is that the business impact of winter weather is anything but idyllic.

Save The Date: Jan. 2021
Get ready for a night full of laughs with comedian Juston McKinney, all while helping to support the Education Foundation and our scholarship program. Last year the Education Foundation was able to give out $100,000 in scholarships to high school and post-secondary students. Your support helps to ensure a strong pipeline for the automotive workforce.

The NHADA Workers’ Compensation Trust board of trustees has approved a 5% reduction in rates for the 2021 fund year. This is the third year in a row that the WCT has reduced rates by 5% – with a zero increase in 2018 and a 4% decrease in 2018, and a 5% decrease in 2016. In 2021 Members will see a reduction in rates by classification code ranging from -4.4% to -6.9%

Iwish I could say this is not a question we are getting here at NHADA-WCT but not only are we getting it; we are getting it more frequently. The number of positive cases in New Hampshire are increasing. Experts warned of a “second wave” and of the complicating factor of the flu and further compounded by the cool weather moving folks inside.

Through a unique partnership between the New Hampshire Automobile Dealers Association (NHADA) and the Community College System of New Hampshire’s Auto Tech programs, local workers are headed back to the classroom to boost their skills free of charge. The NHADA “Workforce Training Reimbursement Grant” will be tapped to send dozens of employees to various advanced automotive technology programs at schools like Lakes Region Community College.

If you don’t like the weather…
The 2020 business environment for those in the New Hampshire auto industry has reminded me of the phrase, “If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes.”