Extras
ATA Supports Senate Bill 3612
This is a notice to Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) recipients: business expenses paid with PPP funds may not be deductible. ATA members who have received PPP funds should keep careful track of the uses for which such funds are used.
2020 Elections: Slate of Candidates
ATA will hold its regularly scheduled elections at the upcoming 2020 ATA Annual Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, to elect three directors for a three-year term.
California Senate Labor Committee Shelves SB 900 Amending AB 5
California’s Senate Bill 900, an amendment which would have exempted specified translators and interpreters from the ABC test under the state’s Assembly Bill 5, was shelved by the Senate Labor Committee on May 14.
Bonus Features
Marketing Services during a Pandemic and Economic Crisis: Why You Should Do It and How to Get It Right
While I’ll admit that I initially questioned whether I should be marketing my services during a global health and economic crisis, I quickly changed my mind. Why? Because our clients still need us, and their clients need us. Plain and simple.
InterpretAmerica 2020: A Timely Response to an Unprecedented Crisis
2020 marks InterpretAmerica’s 10th anniversary, and we had been planning an as-yet-unannounced celebratory event. But COVID-19 made it immediately apparent what we needed to do instead: organize an online forum to spark as broad a conversation as possible about the global lockdown’s effects on the provision of interpreting services and what needed to be done to adapt to this new reality.
More Spoofing, Phishing, and Scamming
Members of ATA’s Business Practices Listserv are reporting new scam email job offers. Unlike email job offers of old with grammatical and spelling mistakes, these are quite good.
