{"id":22,"date":"2012-11-02T14:51:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T18:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/benefitslaw\/?p=22"},"modified":"2014-08-01T15:52:16","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T19:52:16","slug":"employee-assistance-programs-available-to-employers-in-the-wake-of-hurricane-sandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/benefitslaw\/2012\/11\/02\/employee-assistance-programs-available-to-employers-in-the-wake-of-hurricane-sandy\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee-Assistance Programs Available to Employers in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In coping with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which affected millions of individuals across the eastern United States, there are a number of potential programs that employers can implement in order to assist employees. We examine two such programs &#8211; the establishment of a major disaster leave sharing plan and tax-free qualified disaster relief payments &#8211; in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/employee-assistance_programs_available_to_employers_in_wake_hurricane_sandy_4638.html\" target=\"_blank\">Client Alert, entitled Employee-Assistance Programs Available to Employers in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In coping with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, which affected millions of individuals across the eastern United States, there are a number of potential programs that employers can implement in order to assist employees. We examine two such programs &#8211; the establishment of a major disaster leave sharing plan and tax-free qualified disaster relief payments &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/benefitslaw\/2012\/11\/02\/employee-assistance-programs-available-to-employers-in-the-wake-of-hurricane-sandy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Employee-Assistance Programs Available to Employers in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[11,10,13,8,12,9],"ppma_author":[90],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-welfare-plans","tag-code-section-139","tag-collins","tag-hurricane-sandy","tag-major-disaster-leave-sharing-plan","tag-qualified-disaster-relief-payments","tag-tax-free"],"authors":[{"term_id":90,"user_id":126,"is_guest":0,"slug":"tbcollins","display_name":"Timothy B. Collins","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/benefitslaw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2014\/08\/collinstim-125x150.jpg","author_category":"","last_name":"Collins","first_name":"Timothy B.","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/timothybcollins.html","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/timothybcollins.html\">Read Timothy's bio.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/benefitslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/benefitslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/benefitslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/benefitslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/benefitslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/benefitslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/benefitslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/benefitslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/benefitslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/benefitslaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}