ACTION ALERT!!! Don’t Make Small Business do the State’s Work This week the S.C. House will make an extremely important decision for every small business in the state. Without any public hearings or thorough discussion of alternative solutions, the Senate voted to mandate that our small businesses not be allowed to use a driver’s license […]
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Tuesday evening the South Carolina Senate, after considerable debate, voted to amend an immigration reform bill to require all businesses, small and big, to only use E-Verify when hiring an employee. This would mean that no longer can a business simply use a driver’s license or other state approved document to indicate a person’s immigration
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An amendment to a bill (S.20) in the S.C. Senate this week could place an unnecessary burden on small businesses. The S.C. Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulations (LLR) wants to force every business to stop using a drivers license, social security card, birth certificate or other official state document to prove U.S. citizenship when
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Yesterday The South Carolina Small Business Chamber signed on to the below statement. For more background on our postion on this issue, click here.—————————————————————————————————— Senate Amendments to SBIR-STTR Blocking EPA’s Authority: Political Maneuvers that Will Do Nothing for Small Businesses Washington, DC – March 16, 2011 — We, the undersigned organizations representing a diverse set
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Back in November the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce sent an Action Alert to our members urging them contact the S.C. Workers’ Compensation Commission to express their opposition to an insurance industry proposal unfair to small businesses. The industry wanted to shorten the time companies had to wait to cancel a workers’ comp
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Tell Congress to stop new 1099 requirement The new health care law, the Affordable Care Act, has tremendous benefits for small businesses, particularly the tax credits and health insurance exchanges. But the 1099 provision, which has nothing to do with healthcare reform and was included only as a revenue-raising measure, works against them. It would
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I was a little pre-occupied this week so I’m late with this blog.A little thing like an election sucked some energy out of me as it did most folks. But I was involved with some positive activities. My declaration expressing support for the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to regulate greenhouse gas was filed along with
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I have to hand it to the PR departments of the health insurance industry. They can always come up with some negative spin for positive healthcare news. Last week was the 6 month anniversary of the signing of the new health care law. With the anniversary came new consumer protections that the public loves. Here
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What do you think are the odds that this is only a coincidence: Just days after I slam the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and its president Tom Donohue in the media across the country, and in the Congressional newspaper The Hill, I get a mysterious visitor looking for tax records? How about zero chance? An
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The Saluda Dam On Wednesday, the S.C. Public Service Commission (PSC) approved an electric rate hike for SCE&G that was 48.75% less than the company’s request. The 4.88% increase instead of a 9.52% hike was good news for all SCE&G customers, including small businesses. The increase will take place over 3 years instead of the
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