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Top HR Practices for Small Businesses: Convey Your Mission and Values
Growing a business is like building a house. When you have just 1 to 15 workers, you must lay the foundation and build the framework for your future growth. Even if you could simply triple your sales overnight, you wouldn’t have the procedures and talent you need to...
Top HR Practices for Small Businesses: Convey Your Mission and Values
Growing a business is like building a house. When you have just 1 to 15 workers, you must lay the foundation and build the framework for your future growth. Even if you could simply triple your sales overnight, you wouldn’t have the procedures and talent you need to...
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Why S Corp Owners Need Professional Payroll Services
While becoming an S corp offers a number of tax advantages, there are a few administrative hurdles you’ll need to overcome. By working with professional payroll services, you can ensure your company is fully compliant.
Payroll Integrations and Deductions: Making the Right Connections
With the right payroll integrations, you can save valuable labor hours and decrease payroll errors. Once your payroll program is integrated into other HR software, you can easily track deductions, garnishments, and pay stubs. If you’re worried about your company’s...
Best Practices for Setting HR Priorities at Your Small Business
When businesses reach a point where they have 16 to 49 employees, certain compliance laws start to kick in. You need to prepare for additional laws and regulations as early as you can. Additionally, this is a good time to get your organizational culture, employee...
Top 7 HR Steps for Ensuring Growth in the Early Stages of a Business Startup
Whether you just started operations this year or have been slowly growing for several years, there are a few important things you should do to set your business up for long-term success. While HR and payroll practices might not play a major role today, they will...
HR Compliance Update | September 24, 2024
FEDERAL UPDATES Exempt Salary Basis: Reminder that the exempt salary basis for executive, administrative, and professional employees will increase again on January 1, to $58,656 ($1,128 per week). It is then expected to increase every three years in July. Legal...
How Payroll and Tax Software Helps You Improve Accuracy and Remain Compliant
When you implement payroll and tax software, it helps to decrease the hours your employees have to spend on time-consuming tasks. More importantly, it improves your company’s accuracy and regulatory compliance. Instead of devoting your time to handling payroll and tax...
Thrust into HR? A Guide for Small Business Owners and Employees
If you've unexpectedly found yourself managing HR at your small business, you're not alone. Many small business owners or employees take on human resources duties without formal training, and the experience can be overwhelming. You may be responsible for managing...
People Management Solutions: What Software Does Your Small Business Need?
Around half of small businesses fail by their fifth year of operations. Fortunately, there are a few important measures you can take to be more efficient and profitable. By deploying your company’s resources in a smarter way, you can save money on labor costs, prevent...
Controlling Workers’ Comp Costs: Compliance Doesn’t Have to Be Costly
Workers’ compensation is a legal requirement that can quickly add up. If you have more workers’ comp claims, you can end up spending more on workers’ comp than other workplaces in your industry. Fortunately, there are a few important steps you can take to reduce your...
How Small Businesses Can Benefit From Employee Self-Service Tools
Many small businesses don’t realize just how much time is spent on entering data. Each time an employee needs to update their W-4 form or adjust their benefits, an HR employee has to manually change that information. Then, the HR professional has to update the same...
Common Payroll Deductions Explained: A Quick Guide for Employers
Understanding payroll deductions can feel overwhelming, whether you're running a business or simply managing your paycheck. Each pay period, employees see a portion of their earnings withheld for various reasons, and it’s important to know where that money is going....
Managing Employee Data: The Benefits of All-in-One-Place People Management Tools
By investing in people management tools, you can simplify your employee management tasks and ensure your data is protected. Depending on your goals, the best people management tools can involve HR, payroll, and tax software programs. When you choose an all-in-one...
Unlocking Team Potential with Personality Tests
How Personality Tests Can Boost Team Building and HR Best Practices for Small Businesses In today’s evolving workplace, small businesses are always seeking ways to improve team performance and create cohesive work environments. One emerging HR best practice for team...
The Risks of 1099 Contractors
“A 1099 is happy being a 1099 until the moment they’re not. And the moment they’re not, the burden of proof is on the business owner to prove that they should truly be a 1099.” - Rob Campbell, E-COMP’s vice president of HR compliance, learning, and development in a...
HR Benchmark Report: A Look Back to the 8 Chapters Covering the HR Benchmark Report
In episode #117 of Mission to Grow, the Asure podcast that serves as small business owners' guide to cash, compliance, and the War for Talent, we look back at the 8 chapters of the HR Benchmark Report that VP of HR Compliance and Learning and Development at Asure...
3 Ways To Reduce Workers’ Comp Expenses
Workers’ compensation claims can be incredibly expensive for insurers. At the top end of the spectrum, an amputation can cost an average of $126,033. Even a fracture or dislocation can add up to $62,240. When your workers’ comp claims increase, the insurer passes on...
HR Compliance Update | September 10, 2024
FEDERAL UPDATES Tip credits: A Texas federal appeals court just blocked the DOL’s 2021 80/20 (aka 80/20/30 or 80/20 plus 30) regulation related to tip credits. The rule disallowed tip credits for (i) time spent performing directly supporting work (i.e. rolling...
Celebrating National 401(k) Day: A Time to Focus on Retirement Savings
National 401(k) Day is the perfect occasion to focus on the importance of retirement savings. Created in 1996 by the Plan Sponsor Council of America, this day is celebrated on the Friday after Labor Day. It encourages businesses and employees to understand the...
How To Ensure COBRA Compliance for Terminated Workers
As a small business owner, you may be required to give your former workers access to ongoing insurance coverage after they are terminated. The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA) was created so that employees wouldn’t be left without...
The Top 10 HR Best Practices for When a Worker’s Job Ends
Do you have a policy in place for what happens after an employee’s job ends? Depending on where you live, there may be special legal requirements about providing unemployment notices, termination letters, and final paychecks. Other than improving your compliance,...
Controlling Workers’ Comp Costs: The Three Key Drivers to Reduce Workers’ Comp Expenses
“ I think a really important thing to know is that the workers comp costs are a lot more controllable than business owners realize” In episode #116 of Mission to Grow, the Asure podcast that serves as small business owners' guide to cash, compliance, and the War for...
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