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Earned Wage Access: What Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know
“I think the key thing with earned wage access versus historical products that were paycheck advances or payday loans is the lending is done only against wages that are earned, not against the paycheck overall.” In episode #125 of Mission to Grow, the Asure podcast...
Earned Wage Access: What Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know
“I think the key thing with earned wage access versus historical products that were paycheck advances or payday loans is the lending is done only against wages that are earned, not against the paycheck overall.” In episode #125 of Mission to Grow, the Asure podcast...
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FLSA Salary Threshold Increases Blocked Nationwide
On Friday, November 15, a federal judge in Texas invalidated the DOL’s rule increasing the exempt salary thresholds. This means that the mandatory increase that went into effect in July, the additional increase scheduled for January 1, and the automatic increases...
Celebrating Mother’s Day at Work
Women make up about half of the US workforce. According to Pew Research, seven in 10 mothers with children younger than 18 years of age are in the US labor force. Yet working mothers face significant challenges when juggling a career and family. In fact, working...
Employee Benefit Trends for 2019
Today, four generations occupy the workplace at the same time. They all need adequate compensation and basic benefits like healthcare, but beyond that, no two employees are exactly the same. Employee trends vary dramatically by generation, so most HR departments face...
A Pain-Free Approach to Adding Payrol
From CPAs to bookkeepers, benefits brokers, insurance companies, HR consultants and timekeeping businesses, a growing number of accounting and financial services businesses are discovering many good reasons to consider adding payroll to their array of service...
Paid Family & Medical Leave Update
Washington Paid Family & Medical Leave (1/1/19) All Washington employers must provide paid family and medical leave under a bill signed by Gov. Jay Inslee on July 5, 2017. The new law creates an insurance fund that employers and employees both pay into, with a 0.4...
Pros and Cons of a Pet-Friendly Workspace
In today’s competitive labor market, employers are definitely looking for perks, especially inexpensive ones, that will appeal to younger generations of workers. In the US and Canada, pet ownership has been on the rise over the past decade. Nearly 75% of Millennials...
The Form I-9: From Immigration Document to Critical Employment Form
Any business owner knows the importance of paying attention to detail in order to thrive. At Payroll Specialties Northwest, we realize how crucial it is for businesses to spend more time growing than worrying about complex details. Our country is built largely on...
Austin Job Growth is Up and Unemployment is Low. Finding and Retaining Talent is Harder than Ever
According to Austin's Chamber of Commerce, Austin added 30,000 net new jobs over the last year and, Austin's unemployment is hovering around 2.8%. This means that top talent is working and most likely not looking for a job. More and more companies that we talk to...
New Sexual Harassment Prevention Law Applies to ALL New York State Employers
New York State Sexual Harassment Prevention Requirements Finalized The New York State Department of Labor (NYDOL) has released a finalized sexual harassment prevention policy, poster, complaint form, training materials, and minimum training standards. As anticipated,...
New Ways to Approach Paid Leave for Employees
Paid leave is unquestionably one of the most highly-valued employee benefits. In fact, 43% of employees survey stated that paid leave was the single benefit that made them feel most loved by their employer. In the past few decades employee leave programs have shifted...
Austin HR Gives Back — Announcing Summer/Fall Session of Career Transitions
Austin HR's Cofounder, David Hughen, is hosting the 9th year of Career Transitions - a free to the public five week session, designed to help Austin area professionals who are considering their 'next'. This program is made available as a gift to the community. Anyone...
5 Things the Modern Worker Looks For In a Job
In today’s dynamic workplace, modern talent expects their employer to prioritize learning and career development. LinkedIn’s 2018 Workforce Learning Report found that 93% of employees would stay with a company longer if it invested in talent development. In the same...
End Multistate Payroll Tax Insomnia
Lost sleep has a cost in American workplace productivity estimated at more than $63 billion, according to one study, with between 50 and 70 million Americans experiencing sleep difficulties that leave them with lingering effects on the job.The problem is not limited...
5 Ways to Improve Employee Performance in 2019
Improving Employee Performance in 2019 With 2019 just weeks away, HR organizations are evaluating the past year’s employee performance and what turning their attention to identifying what will be the most impactful employee training needs in the year ahead. The most...
How to Build Your HR Budget for 2019
Can you demonstrate a return on HR programs? It’s the last quarter of the calendar year—a busy time for most HR departments. The odds are good that you are in the middle of open enrollment and trying to complete an HR departmental budget for 2019.In this digital age,...
How the Mid-Term Elections Will Impact Employers
This week in the US, it’s pretty much impossible to escape the pending mid-term elections, in which 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 35 seats in the Senate and 39 state or territorial governorships are to be contested, in addition to other state and local...
Taking the Pulse of Talent a Decade After the Great Recession
The fourth business quarter of 2018 marks the ten-year anniversary of some of the more notable events of the Great Recession, including record drops in the stock market, the enactment of TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), and the federal bailouts of AIG, Chrysler,...
New York Paid Family Leave Update for 2019
Effective January 1, 2019, the number of weeks that eligible employees can take to bond with a new child, care for a sick family member, or assist loved ones when a family member is deployed abroad on active military service increases to 10 weeks. The number of weeks...
How Lighting Design Ignites Performance
Today, office design trends are increasingly focused on the health and well-being of workers. Standing desks and adjustable workstations have become very popular as healthier workplace amenities that appeal to many employees, millennials in particular. These options...
The Three Biggest Barriers to Top Performance
There can be many reasons for mediocre performance in the workplace.Some unfortunately is due to a lack of desire to perform at a top level, butmore often there can be other obstacles or challenges preventing anemployee from performing successfully. The cost of a...
Do employees feel their work experiences are better if their managers take a personal interest in them?
Personalizing the employee experience makes sense, whether it's during an on-boarding process or even an interview but, the day-to-day interactions between managers and employees are crucial in this realm. If a manager can personalize their communications so that...
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