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New Tax Proposal Exempts Small Businesses From Some ACA Rules

New Tax Proposal Exempts Small Businesses From Some ACA RulesThe White House is proposing changes that would allow millions of small businesses and the self-employed to buy health-insurance plans that don’t comply with all ACA requirements through regulatory...

Getting Ready For Your 2018 Payroll

Make adjustments now for these tax code changes Another year has come and gone. As we bid farewell to 2017, payroll administrators need to consider several new changes for 2018. To reduce your risk of noncompliance penalties, stay informed of updates that may occur...

Payroll Providers Expect a Bumpy Transition for New Tax Law

It takes more than a little confusion to get a payroll specialist worked up. A new wrinkle in the regulatory landscape? Looming deadlines? It’s all in a day’s work for the people who make sure all the other people get paid.So when the American Payroll Association...

Four Ways to Foster Social Connections and Improve Performance

Give Your Employees Room to Move and Socialize You’ve probably heard the mantra, “sitting is the new smoking,” and all the negative consequences that come with being deskbound for 8 hours every day at work. According to the American Heart Association, long periods of...

5 Tips to Help Employees Achieve Healthy New Year’s Resolutions

A Holistic Approach to Employee Well-Being As the holidays approach and everyone is making their New Year’s resolutions about losing weight, taking exercise and quitting unhealthy habits like smoking. For human resources executives, keeping these resolutions may do...

New York State Paid Family Leave

New York State passed a Paid Family Leave (PFL) law that provides partial income replacement and job protection while workers are on leave for covered reasons, such as bonding with their child (during the first 12 months following the birth, adoption, or fostering of...

ACA QUANDARY: REPEAL OR PROP UP?

ACA QUANDARY: REPEAL OR PROP UP?Big Issues to Watch: How will the national budget reconciliation be treated – will it go back to the existing law or move on to welfare reform & will they use it for both, or nothing?More Review Over the 340-B Program. A judge last...

Looking for Payroll Services? Ask These 4 Questions

As a C-level executive of your organization, you know your payroll management staff can’t handle in-house payroll services any longer. Perhaps they don’t have the professional know-how to maintain compliance on state and federal tax forms for your employees – and the...

Will A New ACA Finally Emerge in 2018?

Will A New ACA Finally Emerge in 2018?The sweeping 2018 tax bill approved on Wednesday, December 20th, will repeal the individual mandate in 2019, which could potentially take millions of people out of the health insurance market. It also eliminates some existing...

ACA Inclusion In Tax Bill To Be Decided Within Days

ACA Inclusion In Tax Bill To Be Decided Within DaysSome legislators feel that a bipartisan ObamaCare insurer fix will be added to a government funding bill this week (Dec. 18-22), potentially setting and is still being hotly debated.The bill is aimed at stabilizing...

Why Your Employees Need Coaching

Younger employees value mentoring, learning and developmentYounger employees, including Millennials, place a high value on career development. They want to be in jobs where they can learn new skills that will benefit them professionally. They crave structure, positive...

How to Conduct More Productive Meetings

Turn snoozy meetings into engaging collaborations with planning Information workers are having more meetings than ever—but if you took an anonymous survey in most organisations, the chances are good that employees would say many, if not most, meetings are a waste of...

Are Flexible Spending Accounts An Affordable Option?

No one knows how the Affordable Care Act (“ObamaCare”) will pan out for 2018 and beyond. In the meantime, employers are having a difficult time offering affordable healthcare benefits to their employees. The timing is critical as healthcare costs continue to rise and...

3 Reasons Millennial Employees Leave—and How to Retain Them

Adapt your organization to better engage Millennial talent Millennials are the least engaged generation in the workforce, according to a 2016 Gallup Study, “How Millennials Want to Work and Live.” A stunning 71% of Millennials were “checked out” and disengaged at...

Healthcare Costs: Insurance Benefits, Value & Premium Pricing

Healthcare Costs: Insurance Benefits, Value & Premium PricingAs consumers become responsible for increasingly larger portions of their health care costs, some are reducing their consumption of medical services in an effort to contain the financial impact. While...

7 Tips for Choosing a Web Conferencing Provider

Finding the right solution for remote workers and multiple offices In the digital workplace, more workers will enjoy flexible schedules and remote work opportunities. That means that many more teams will become “virtual teams” as coworkers are geographically located...

Update on ACA Status

Update on ACA StatusCongress is headed for a showdown on whether to insert several pressing health measures in year-end bills. The looming health-care issues include:- Funding for a children’s health program- Possible delay of certain taxes by the ACA- A bipartisan...

Austin HR Helps Business Leaders Navigate Sexual Harassment Discussion

Austin, Texas affiliate television stations KXAN (NBC) and KVUE (ABC) recently interviewed Austin HR’s co-founders and managing partners Laurie Howell and David Hughen, on the topic of sexual harassment in the workplace. From KXAN —The pair (Howell and Hughen) says...

Standing Desks—Healthy or Hype?

How to help employees become less sedentary We’ve all heard the warning that ‘sitting is the new smoking.’ Sedentary hours spent sitting at their desks can take a toll on information workers’ health and wellbeing. Many organizations now offer employees the option of...

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