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10 Tips to Ensure HR Compliance at Your Small Business
For your company to do its best, your HR policies must be in compliance with federal, state, and local laws. Unfortunately, this can be challenging for many small businesses. There are just so many different regulations that it can be hard to keep up. When companies...
10 Tips to Ensure HR Compliance at Your Small Business
For your company to do its best, your HR policies must be in compliance with federal, state, and local laws. Unfortunately, this can be challenging for many small businesses. There are just so many different regulations that it can be hard to keep up. When companies...
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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...
What HR Pros Are Using to Evaluate Benefits Administration Platforms
Employer-sponsored benefits including health insurance coverage and retirement plans are a big part of employee compensation—and the right offering can make your company more attractive in the war for talent. All too often, however, employees aren’t aware of what’s...
ACA Reporting Requirements Still in Effect for 2018
ACA Reporting Requirements Still in Effect for 2018At The Close of 2017, The ACA Stands& The IRS Supports Existing Systems to Fully Enforce ItEfforts of Congress to repeal the ACA don’t yet affect the IRS’ stance will support the law until the repeal is resolved....
Dealing With Harassment? Discrimination? Wage Theft?
Dealing With Harassment? Discrimination? Wage Theft?How Can Employees Get Justice With Mandatory Arbitration?How closely did you read the packet of paperwork on your first day of work? Or the contract that came with your cellphone? Chances are good that you...
Hospitality Providers Must View New Cal/OSHA Hotel Housekeeping Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention
Hospitality Providers Must View New Cal/OSHA Hotel Housekeeping Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention RegulationHospitality Providers Must View New Cal/OSHA Hotel Housekeeping Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention RegulationIn January the Cal/OSHA Standards Board approved a...
Should You Get Rid of Annual Performance Reviews?
Ongoing feedback may improve performance management Recent research reveals neither employees nor managers appreciate the annual performance review process. About one-third of managers say annual reviews take too much time. Employees worry their managers won’t be...
New Report Addresses Impact of Drug Abuse & Workplace Testing
New Report Addresses Impact of Drug Abuse & Workplace TestingA recent drug-testing firm has published a white paper, Economic Value of Drug Testing in the Workplace for Health Payers & Employers. The article addresses opportunities for health payers and...
The Role of AI and Robotics in the Future of Work
The Role of AI and Robotics in the Future of Work How you can benefit from the augmented workforce There’s a new wave of automation impacting businesses of all sizes and types. Fast food restaurants including McDonald’s and CaliBurger have made investments in...
States Evaluate Establishing Their Own Health Insurance Mandates
States Evaluate Establishing Their Own Health Insurance MandatesCongressional Repeal of ACA’s Individual Mandate Leaves ANumber of Lawmakers Examining Replacement MeasuresAt least nine states are considering their own versions of a requirement that residents must have...
Why Employers Are Cutting Back Telework Programs
What Can We Learn from Employers Cutting Back on Telework Programs? Three things you can do to balance company needs with this valued employee benefit Telecommuting and telework programs have been around for decades. Research has demonstrated that remote workers are...
Update On the Children’s Health Insurance Program
Update On the Children’s Health Insurance ProgramFunding for a health insurance program for children – the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – arose as an offshoot of discussions in Congress on the budget. The CHIP program expired last September, and a...
Why Sexual Harassment Often Goes Unreported
3 ways HR can strengthen harassment prevention efforts Last year saw a whirlwind of scandal involving sexual harassment, beginning with shocking allegations about movie producer Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of female actresses in his employ, and revelations...
Should I Outsource HR Consulting for my Small Business?
Human Resources (HR) typically require an entire full-time department of professionals, yet small businesses often lack the personnel to accommodate this need. Business owners are left without the benefits of an HR department such as saving time, effectively managing...
Triple Threat: Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan Rattle Health-Care World
Triple Threat: Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan Rattle Health-Care WorldThree Giants’ Envision Using Technology to Cut Costs & Replace Insurers / Drug-benefit CarriersAmazon.com Inc, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase are involved in a big, big new concept....
What Employers Need To Know About Harassment Training – Gender Identity, Expression & Orientation In 2018
What Employers Need To Know About Harassment Training – Gender Identity, Expression & Orientation In 2018Harassment Training Regarding Gender Identity, Expression and Sexual OrientationWhat: Training – which is required regarding prevention of sexual harassment...
OSHA 300’s Due February 1st for Applicable Employers
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) mandates that all employers with more than 10 employees—except those in exempt low-risk industries—maintain a record of work-related injuries and illnesses. Those who are required to maintain these records...
Meet Michelle Kingery: Savers Admin Tax Specialist
Michelle Kingery is Savers Admin’s payroll services director, but she’s known around the office as the tax specialist. She’s the one who files the quarterly and yearly tax statements and she’s the one who’ll research and resolve any notice you receive from state or...
Extra Checking at Savers Admin Helps Prevent Audit Problems
Some of the things we do for clients at Savers Admin aren’t immediately apparent. One of those is to reduce the risk of non-compliance. Suppose you have a Flexible Spending Account plan, in which employees can shift before-tax compensation into an account for eligible...
A New Name, But Familiar Staff and Services
Savers Admin clients may not know the Asure Software name, but they’ve long been using Asure’s products. Asure’s cloud-based software underlies nearly all Savers Admin’s services. The combination of Asure Software and Savers Admin is designed to preserve local service...
A Memo From Wanda (Feb 2018)
One of the most common mistakes in the world of COBRA is forgetting to send the initial notice, sometimes called the general notice. The mistake is not only common, but also potentially costly, because the noncompliance fee is $110 per day for every day that every...
Q&A with Julie: ACA Deadlines Are Set; Withholding Changes Coming; FSA Grace Period vs. Rollover
Q: I understand we must provide a Form 1095-C for our employees in order to remain in compliance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). What is the due date for these forms? It’s been a bit of a moving target for 2017, but the final dates have now been released (IRS...
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