Special Notice to Contributing Employers- COVID-19 Temporary Relief Termination
Special Notice to Contributing Employers- COVID-19 Temporary Relief Termination
August 19, 2020
The Board of Trustees of the New York City Carpenters Benefit Funds (the “Funds”) is publishing this special notice to contributing employers regarding the COVID-19 outbreak. It is our hope that you and your families are healthy and safe. In April 2020, we advised you that to help you get through the difficult time posed by the public health emergency, the Trustees had decided effective April 28, 2020 to extend the time period for employers who report hours and remit benefit contributions on a weekly basis so that those employers would have until 30 days after the end of the payroll period to report hours and to remit contributions to the Funds. We also informed you at that time that this relief was available only to employers in good standing and that it would remain in effect only until further notice. We hope that this temporary relief has helped you navigate the emergency.
Based on the resumption of non-essential construction work and other factors, the Trustees have determined that the temporary relief will terminate on October 31, 2020. As of that date, any employer who is obligated to pay benefit contributions on a weekly basis pursuant to its agreement with the District Council and/or the Funds’ Collection Policy, must do so. This means that if you are currently availing yourself of the temporary relief, you must “catch up” by reporting hours and remitting benefit contributions for all hours through October 11, 2020 on or before October 31, 2020 and remit weekly thereafter.
