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5 Changing HR Laws To Prepare for in the New Year
With 2025 about to arrive, small businesses should take a moment to make sure they’re ready for some HR changes that are about to happen. While some of these changes have been known about for months, other changes involve new developments. Because penalties for...
5 Changing HR Laws To Prepare for in the New Year
With 2025 about to arrive, small businesses should take a moment to make sure they’re ready for some HR changes that are about to happen. While some of these changes have been known about for months, other changes involve new developments. Because penalties for...
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10 Best Practices for Garnishing Wages
Even if you only have one employee, you are still legally required to garnish wages if you receive a court order to do so. Unfortunately, calculating the garnishment and fulfilling your legal obligation isn’t always easy. By keeping in mind a few best practices, you...
How to Leverage Immersive Experiences in Remote Training and Learning
With the Omicron variant of COVID-19 still causing business disruptions and uncertainty, business leaders need to find new ways to strengthen remote training and learning programs. Without the right skills, employers and employees will struggle to be...
OSHA Vaccination Rule Goes Into Effect January 10th
In a decision that will obligate employers to implement COVID-19 protocols starting January 10, 2022, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has lifted the stay on the federal government's directive that companies collect documented proof of...
How to Align Your Recruiting Budget with a Tight Labor Market
In a previous blog, we examined The Great Resignation and why it’s not only difficult for businesses to hire new workers, but retain the talent that’s currently on staff. Businesses are reeling from the mass, voluntary exodus of workers who are choosing...
How to Present the Business Case for Investing in HR Technology
According to the 2022 Gartner CIO and Technology Executive Survey, CIOs expect IT budgets to grow 3.6% representing the fastest year-over-year growth rate in more than a decade. About two-thirds expect to increase spending on cybersecurity and about half...
How to Write Your COVID-19 Vaccination Policy and Communicate It to Employees
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers have been doing whatever it takes to ensure a safe and healthy workplace for employees. That’s one reason why employers began to consider whether to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for employees once...
Cybersecurity: Is the Office Safer than Remote?
As we settle into the final quarter of 2021, businesses and employees are at a crossroads. Many employees would like to continue working from home. Employers want them back in the office. While some businesses have honored the continuation of remote work...
EEOC Initiates Legal Action over COVID-19-Related Remote Work Accommodations
The first COVID-19-related remote work lawsuit has been filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). On September 7, 2021, the EEOC filed a lawsuit alleging disability discrimination under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), after an employer...
Focus on Culture to Boost Employee Engagement
As we discussed in our previous blog about the Great Resignation, employees are leaving jobs at an unprecedented rate. While reasons for quitting vary across generations and industries, one thing is clear: employees are looking for employers to do...
With Inflation Running Hot, Wage Pressures Increase for Businesses
Inflation has been making headlines all summer, sparked by rising prices and increases in other key indicators. According to July 2021 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index rose 5.4% year-over-year as of July 2021,...
Why Businesses Need to Focus on Skills-Based Hiring and Pay
Financial Wellness: Help Employees Navigate an Era of Higher Inflation
As we continue to navigate this new Great Resignation era, businesses are trying to find new ways to fill job openings and retain their best employees. Organizations of all industries and sizes have their work cut out for them. According to an August...
2022 HR Budget Planning: Time to Prioritize Culture and Employee Experience
When service-based businesses like restaurants and hotels reopened after the COVID-19 lockdowns, many workers didn’t return. Workforce analysts and economists believed enhanced pandemic unemployment benefits were to blame and expected people to return to...
Employee Retention Credit Payments, Amended Returns and IRS Delays
Thousands of businesses that filed for the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) have been waiting much longer than expected to receive refunds claimed when filing amended returns on paper 941-X forms. Unfortunately, those businesses may have to wait even...
OSHA Suspends Implementation and Enforcement of Vaccine Mandate – Now What?
In response to an order from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) announced it had suspended efforts related to the workplace vaccine mandates and mask mandates for employers with 100 or more...
Time’s Up for Pandemic Relief: Employee Retention Tax Credit Program Cut Short
UPDATE: President Biden signed into law the $1 trillion infrastructure bill cited below on Monday, November 15, 2021.If your business has been claiming the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) for wages paid this year, it’s time to stop. The infrastructure bill, as...
How to Handle Employee Requests for Vaccine Mandate Exemptions
As part of a new COVID-19 action plan, Path Out of the Pandemic, President Biden announced a proposal to “use regulatory powers and other actions to substantially increase the number of Americans covered by vaccination requirements.” This plan would...
Employers Should Reexamine Fairness and Trust in a Hybrid Work World
According to the 2021 Edelman Trust Barometer, a survey of 33,000 people in 28 countries, more than 1 in 4 employees don’t trust their employers. Trust was broken in many ways throughout the last year—from the ongoing global pandemic to political and...
The Great Resignation: Why Your Top Talent is Eyeing the Door
The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a new era: The Great Resignation. It’s a term first coined in 2019 to predict a mass, voluntary exodus from the workforce—and it’s here and it’s now. Employers and employees both are still reeling from the disruption...
Biden Orders Federal Vaccine Mandates and More
On Thursday, September 9, 2021, President Biden gave a speech (transcript here) outlining the federal government’s six-point plan for forging a ‘path out of the pandemic.’ Some areas of focus will directly impact business compliance, while others have...
Mental Health Benefits: Four Ways to Support Employee Wellbeing
According to a fall 2020 poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), more than half of U.S. adults reported that stress and worry over the pandemic had negatively impacted their mental health. As a result, KFF reported that mental health illnesses could soon replace...
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