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How Does Employment Eligibility Verification Work?

How Does Employment Eligibility Verification Work?

Through employment eligibility verification forms, you can ensure your company is legally compliant and make accurate hiring decisions. While every business is required to complete Form I-9 for each worker, how it is used and turned in can vary. Some states have...

How To Improve Retention Rates Among Remote Workers

How To Improve Retention Rates Among Remote Workers

While offering remote work is attractive to employees, it carries its own unique challenges as well. With in-person workers, you can easily demonstrate employee recognition, provide training, support career development, and increase engagement. To boost remote...

Seasonal Hiring: What Growing Businesses Need to Know

Seasonal Hiring: What Growing Businesses Need to Know

Why Seasonal Hiring Matters For many businesses, seasonal hiring is essential to keep up with increased demand during peak periods. Whether it’s retail gearing up for the holidays, tax firms preparing for tax season, or hospitality businesses ramping up for summer,...

Questions To Ask During Exit Interviews

Questions To Ask During Exit Interviews

If you want to retain top talent, you need to implement exit interviews. In an exit interview, you can collect valuable data about why workers are leaving your company. Then, you can use this information to improve your company’s retention rates, productivity, and...

Guide to Employer Requirements for Tipped Workers

Guide to Employer Requirements for Tipped Workers

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), there are specific requirements for minimum wages and overtime. As an employer, you must pay tipped workers a minimum wage. Because of the nature of tips, you also have special obligations when it comes to recordkeeping. If...

What To Look for in an HR Provider

What To Look for in an HR Provider

For small businesses, it can be challenging to achieve the same level of HR, payroll, and business management services as a larger company. Fortunately, outsourced HR services can help you reach the same quality of results for a fraction of the cost. To ensure your...

The Advantages of Using an Integrated Time-Tracking App

The Advantages of Using an Integrated Time-Tracking App

If your small business doesn’t already use time-tracking and attendance software, you could be missing out. Time-tracking apps can enhance your time-keeping accuracy and make your workplace more efficient. Many payroll functions legally must be recorded and tracked,...

The Benefits and Drawbacks To Using CalSavers for Your Small Business

The Benefits and Drawbacks To Using CalSavers for Your Small Business

In California, any business with five or more employees must offer a retirement plan. On December 31, 2025, this will change to any business that has at least one worker. If your company doesn’t have an existing retirement plan, California has set up CalSavers as an...

How AI Can Support Job Postings

How AI Can Support Job Postings

While it is unlikely that AI will end up supplanting human workers on a broad scale in the near future, it has the capacity to reshape day-to-day activities in workplaces throughout the world. Your HR department can save time and become more effective at reaching out...

What Are the ACA Reporting Requirements for Employers?

What Are the ACA Reporting Requirements for Employers?

After the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was enacted in 2010, it quickly transformed the insurance requirements companies had to meet. Because of ACA requirements for employers, medium and large organizations are now required to offer health insurance. In addition, many...

How To Perform Wage-and-Hour Audits

How To Perform Wage-and-Hour Audits

With a wage-and-hour audit, you can ensure your company is in legal compliance. During a full wage-and-hour audit, you’ll look at your company’s employee classifications, overtime pay, minimum wage, and compliance history. While the U.S. Department of Labor handles...

HR Compliance Update | March 12, 2025

HR Compliance Update | March 12, 2025

FEDERAL UPDATES OFCCP Workforce Reduction – Reports of a memorandum from OFCCP’s acting director suggest that the agency will lay off 90% of its workforce and reduce its offices from 55 to 4. It intends to retain a limited number of staff to review contractors for...

Classifications: Employees Versus Independent Contractors

Classifications: Employees Versus Independent Contractors

How you classify your workers will make a major difference in the employment taxes you pay and your company’s obligations to the worker. While employees must be paid overtime and given employment-related benefits, independent contractors do not. Because there are...

The Value of Electronic Onboarding for Businesses in 2025

The Value of Electronic Onboarding for Businesses in 2025

Your onboarding process can greatly determine how much your business spends on hiring, recruitment, and training in the long run. In fact, the likelihood of an employee staying at least three years jumps by 69% if they experience a good onboarding process. Thanks to...

HR Compliance Update | February 25, 2025

HR Compliance Update | February 25, 2025

FEDERAL UPDATES NLRB – Rescission of General Counsel Guidance.  As expected, the new Acting General Counsel for the NLRB rescinded dozens of the former Counsel’s memos interpreting the NLRA.  Rescissions include Memorandum 23-08 suggesting that certain Non-Compete...

A Small Business Guide to the FICA Tip Credit

A Small Business Guide to the FICA Tip Credit

As a small business, you need all of the tax breaks you can get to boost your bottom line. If you’re a company that hires tipped workers, you may be able to spend less on your taxes by taking advantage of the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) tip credit....

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