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Federal Contractors Should Prepare for 2025 Minimum Wage Hike as Legal Challenges Unfold
By Justin R. Barnes & Laura A. Mitchell, Jackson Lewis, Attorneys at Law Federal contractors may need to be prepared to increase pay for employees working on, or in connection with, covered federal government contracts. The hourly minimum wage for employees...
Federal Contractors Should Prepare for 2025 Minimum Wage Hike as Legal Challenges Unfold
By Justin R. Barnes & Laura A. Mitchell, Jackson Lewis, Attorneys at Law Federal contractors may need to be prepared to increase pay for employees working on, or in connection with, covered federal government contracts. The hourly minimum wage for employees...
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What Is Employer Branding?
Today, 86% of HR professionals report that recruiting employees is becoming more like marketing. The same number of workers say they research a business before they consider turning in their application. In today’s job market, companies can’t just post a generic job...
How to Develop a Staffing Plan
Whether you’re an entrepreneur or a business leader, it’s important to be ready to grow your workforce and fill the need for talent. That’s why more growing businesses take time to develop a formalized staffing plan to ensure the right people with the right skills are...
Coronavirus: What Employers Need to Know
Employers should check Federal, State and Municipal guidance often for updates that impact their business and their employees. To help you stay on top of this rapidly evolving situation, Asure has compiled a list of Federal, State, U.S. Territorial, and select...
New Overtime Threshold Changes
On January 1, 2020, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) new overtime rules 2020 took effect. The updates to the federal overtime law make more than a million workers in the U.S. newly eligible for overtime pay by boosting the salary threshold from $455/week or...
Changes to the W-4 Form for the 2020 Year
The IRS has officially released the final version of the 2020 Form W-4, retitled Employee’s Withholding Certificate. Form W-4, also known as W4 Form 2020, was redesigned to reflect changes to the federal tax code that went into effect with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act...
Keeping up with the FMLA and Paid Family Leave Changes in 2020
About 2.1 million civilian federal workers will be eligible for up to 12 weeks paid parental leave beginning in October of 2020, thanks to legislation President Donald Trump signed into law last year.The law is part of a larger effort underway in both the U.S....
What Growing Businesses Need to Know About Payroll and Tax Compliance
Payroll is a critical function for businesses of all types and sizes. Payroll processing and tax compliance require a tremendous amount of attention to detail to ensure accuracy. With an entrepreneurial spirit and focus on growing your company, your time is already...
Six Ways to Support Business Growth with HR Technology
Many entrepreneurs, business owners, and CEOs seek to lead their business through periods of consistent growth. Leaders commonly focus significant time and effort on growing one or more of the following categories: revenue, sales, market share, and workforce. The...
W-4 Makeover: IRS and States Tackle New Withholding Landscape
Updated for 2020: what you need to know about the new W-4While the IRS just introduced its new version of the W-4, some states have already implemented new forms of their own as state and federal taxing agencies scramble to replace withholding forms that may not...
3 Steps for Avoiding the Horror of Year-End Payroll Tax Management
Are you still celebrating the fact that you made it through another year-end? Beware: The next one comes around again faster than you and your payroll tax processes may be prepared for.The ubiquitous turn-of-the-decade, Gatsby-themed parties are over and...
Hottest Resolution For 2020: Think Outside The (Big) Box
With rapidly advancing technology and the number of customer-focused services available, the forward-thinking younger workforce prefers plentiful options. Nowadays, even the most basic act of ordering a latte comes with an abundance of milk choices you...
Headhunter vs Recruiter—What’s the Difference?
According to Harvard Business Review, until the 1980s, companies filled about 90% of their vacant positions with internal candidates--either those receiving a promotion or a lateral reassignment. Today, less than one-third of open positions are filled internally. With...
Importance of Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace
Emotional intelligence (EQ) refers to a person’s ability to understand and manage his or her emotions. Though often difficult to fully understand the cause and impact of emotions, researchers are beginning to recognize the important role they play in employee-employer...
What You Need to Know About the Gig Economy
Thanks to the growing gig economy, the number of independent, self-employed workers is on the rise. In the gig economy, businesses hire contractors instead of full-time employees to complete short-term engagements or assignments. According to Gallup, “about 36% of...
Payroll Tax Software Implementation Done Right
Revisited: Our Implementation Supervisor walks you through the process of implementing our state-of-the-art payroll tax software…A Process Designed Around YouIt’s not hard to know when your current system for processing payroll taxes has stopped working. Have you come...
Tips for Workplace Time Management
According to a survey by salary.com, 89% of respondents admitted to wasting time every day at work. Other research showed the average worker puts in less than three productive hours each workday. Most employees need to be more organized and productive, and there’s a...
How to Create a Transparent Work Culture
Building a great company and positive work culture is an important component of a successful business. Work culture can positively impact recruiting efforts, employee engagement, productivity, and customer service. That’s why leading businesses build their culture...
Why Automate Payroll
From wages and direct deposits to benefits and overtime calculations, navigating your payroll’s moving parts is cumbersome.Akin to payroll are taxes. In the United States, there are more than 15,000 tax codes. They change frequently… Keeping ongoing tabs of the ones...
A Pricing Plan Inspired by Our Clients
At Asure, payroll tax management is one of our areas of expertise, but our real business is making things easier for payroll providers.That's why when we became aware that our clients wanted an easier way to pay for using our software solution, FlexTax®, we made...
Outsourcing HR Projects
Complexities of Human Resources operations has necessitated 3rd-party involvement to assure operational integrity and compliance. Today, 80+% of companies outsource some or all facets of their HR duties, with that number steadily trending higher.Time, cost and...
Tidings of Comfort and Avocados at Year-End
Here’s a fact: 143% of American workers report experiencing daily stress and anxiety on the job. EDITOR’S NOTE: Some of us could use a vacation, apparently.Here’s another fact: There are 400 gazillion ways to relieve stress and anxiety on the job, including 48...
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