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Practical Steps for Building an EEO Policy
If you want to attract top talent in a tight labor market, you should strive to become an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer. To be an EEO employer, you must treat applicants and employees equally. Your company cannot discriminate based on the individual’s...
Practical Steps for Building an EEO Policy
If you want to attract top talent in a tight labor market, you should strive to become an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer. To be an EEO employer, you must treat applicants and employees equally. Your company cannot discriminate based on the individual’s...
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Top Methods for Differentiating Your Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
In a tight labor market, you need to do everything you can to stand out from the crowd. One way to differentiate your employer image. Your employee value proposition (EVP) helps you stand out to potential applicants, allowing you to attract more and better workers to...
OSHA Enforcement Priorities and Mitigating COVID-19 Risk in the Workplace
According to a recent survey, more than half of US workers are concerned about the health and safety risks of returning to the workplace. About 60% of those surveyed were afraid employers would get rid of some workplace safety protocols too soon and...
Employee Retention Tax Credit: How It Works and How to Get It
www.asuresoftware.com/ERTC With the passage of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) in March of 2020, the main focus for business financial relief centered on the Payroll Protection Program. The goal of the program was to get...
Cloud HR and Payroll Help Businesses Align Cash Flow with Growth
Small businesses are actively investing in change to drive agility, resiliency, and growth. But what is the best way to make change happen? Which investments provide the biggest bang for the buck? How can businesses ensure that cash flow is closely...
Top 10 Questions to Ask Prospective Payroll Providers
When it comes to payroll solutions, there are plenty of options. Each solution has its own personality. Choosing a solution your business can grow with is a smart approach. While switching payroll services isn’t uncommon, it can be costly in...
7 Signs You’ve Outgrown Your Current HR System
Human Resources (HR) tools must grow in tandem with your company. Doing timesheets, taxes, and onboarding manually might make sense when there are just a few employees, but that changes when a few turns into dozens. Controlling costs upfront makes sense. However,...
COBRA Subsidy in ARPA
The DOL has recently released a webpage full of resources, helpful information, model notices and FAQs related to COBRA Premium Assistance under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA) for both workers and families and employers and...
COBRA Subsidies Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021
On Thursday, March 11, 2021, the President signed the American Rescue Plan Act (the 'Act') which includes continuation coverage premium assistance for certain individuals and their families receiving COBRA due to an involuntary termination of employment or a reduction...
IRS notices dated February 15, 2021 regarding December 31, 2020 Form 940
Have you received an IRS notice dated “February 15, 2021” indicating “Changes to your December 31, 2020 Form 940 - Adjusted Amount Due”?We've recently learned of an error where 940 timely deposits made to the IRS in January for the 2020 period were not properly...
5 Steps to Improving Motivation in Remote Teams
Keeping remote employees motivated and productive requires a different approach. What works to improve motivation for on-site employees often fails in remote settings. While offering benefits in terms of flexibility and access to top talent,...
Cybersecurity and the HR Tech Stack
Organizations of all sizes collect and store sensitive, confidential employee data on a daily basis. As the number of cyberattacks on businesses grow, it’s important for human resources leaders to take a closer look at cyber security practices. Additionally, existing...
Monitoring Employees: Ethics and Privacy Considerations for the Hybrid Workforce
In pursuit of growth and higher levels of business performance, business leaders continue to seek new ways to unlock the true potential of their workforce. That’s one reason why the use of employee monitoring technology is on the rise. Even before the...
3 Technologies and 3 Tips for Successful Remote Recruiting
Remote recruiting is gaining traction at organizations of all sizes, and not just because of the COVID-19 global pandemic. The move to a digital-first workforce has been in motion for a long time, with high-tech companies leading the charge. The remote revolution...
What Small Businesses Need to Know about the $900 Billion COVID-19 Relief Bill
After months of delays and stalled negotiations, Congress passed the second largest stimulus bill in U.S. history: The Consolidated Appropriations Act. President Trump signed the bill on December 27, 2020. This much-needed and long-awaited pandemic relief package...
Compensation Issues for the Remote Workforce
As we continue to examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on work life, let’s take a closer look at compensation issues related to managing a remote workforce. If your business allowed employees to work from home during the pandemic, are you now planning to make...
Two Ways to Reduce the Cost of Human Capital Administration
The costs of human capital administration and compliance can be significant in businesses of all sizes. Core human capital administration functions include personnel, benefits, payroll, and maintaining compliance with workforce-related rules such as employee...
Pay Equity and 2021 Compensation Planning
Every worker has the right to equal pay for equal work regardless of gender, race, religion, national origin, age, or physical or mental abilities. There have been several laws enacted to protect pay equity at both the state and federal level including the new...
How to Build Incentive Plans that Motivate Employees
One of the most important functions of HR is to attract and retain productive employees. To succeed, HR must create an effective compensation program that provides fair and equitable pay. Additionally, many organizations establish incentive plans to motivate employees...
Good Riddance 2020! Get Ready for Payroll Year-End
This year has been tough and many will be glad to ring in the New Year for 2021. There are substantial changes to year-end payroll and tax reporting employers need to know about in order to close the books on the year 2020. As we look back to January, we began the...
IRS Contends with an Unopened Mail Backlog of Unprocessed Tax Returns and Payments
Throughout 2020, the IRS has struggled to keep up with the manual process of opening US postal mail. As the pandemic took hold, the IRS sent workers home. The offices remained shutdown for most of the spring. With no one on site to perform administrative tasks,...
Multistate Payroll Tax Compliance Best Practices for Higher Ed
Online learning for higher education is one of the sectors greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been increasing relentlessly already over the past decade, with 6.3 million higher education students taking classes online in 2017, according to...
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