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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...

What Employers Need To Know About New Parent LOA In – 2018

What Employers Need To Know About New Parent LOA In – 2018New Parent Leave Of Absence Act: Effective January 1, 2018, employers with 20 to 49 employees are now required to allow qualified employees to take unpaid leave as much as 12 weeks to bond with a new child.To...

How to Focus Your Team to Achieve Big Goals

Four ways to bring out the best How can you build a community of collaboration in your organization? It may seem like a daunting task given that recent Gallup numbers show only 32% of U.S. workers are engaged in their work. In fact, workers and experts tend to agree...

What Employers Need To Know About Reproductive Health Rights

What Employers Need To Know About Reproductive Health RightsUpdate #4: Employment Policies – Reproductive Health Rights Because employees have the right of freedom to make their own reproductive health decisions without interference from their employers, this law is...

New Pay Equity and Salary History Bans for 2018

Adapt your organization to this new challenge for recruiting For many employers, a standard part of the recruiting process has been to attempt to determine how much a prospective job candidate currently earns before deciding on a salary offer. The most common way to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Client Profile: RiverRun International Film Festival

For 11 days every spring, Winston-Salem becomes a hub of cinema, for the region and the world. Thousands converge here, schedules in hand, to watch a diverse array of more than 150 films from around the world and to interact with the producers who made them. ...

Three Areas of Benefits Uncertainty in 2018

How Tax Reform, Wages, and Benefits Costs May Affect Employer-Employee Relationships  Most companies would agree that the global economy improved in 2017, yet many employees still struggle financially—and have been since the financial meltdown of 2009. As we move...

Does Working Longer Hours Increase Productivity?

Do you know someone who is “married to their job”? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average full-time worker logs 8.56 hours per weekday and 5.48 hours per day on weekends. About half of U.S. workers say they routinely put in 50 or more hours a...

What Employers Need To Know About Immigration I-9 Forms – 2018

What Employers Need To Know About Immigration I-9 Forms – 2018Update #3: What To Do About Immigration I-9 Forms Do not allow any government entity, and specifically DO NOT ALLOW the Customs & Immigration Service, or U.S. Homeland Security to obtain or review your...

DOL Test for Unpaid Interns

The Department of Labor (DOL) recently adopted a new test for unpaid interns. Employers should use this test—called the primary beneficiary test—when determining if a worker can be properly classified as an unpaid intern or if they need to be classified as an employee...

Synergy with Symmetry: Payroll Tax Management

For those working in payroll and human capital management (HCM) software, you need a tax engine to calculate the right amount of payroll taxes based on IRS withholding tables.Then you need payroll tax management software to ensure that the right payroll taxes are paid...

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...

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...

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...

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