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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...
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...
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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 to Avoid SUI Under/Over-Payments
Does your payroll tax management software conduct state unemployment insurance (SUI) rate exchanges so that you do not underpay or overpay your payroll taxes? This is especially critical to ensure multi-state payroll tax compliance and to avoid hefty fines.The only...
Predictive Modeling & Small Commercial Insurance Risk Assessment
Predictive Modeling & Small Commercial Insurance Risk AssessmentPredictive modeling is effective as a risk assessment tool in personal insurance, but acceptance in commercial insurance has been relatively slow, even for small commercial. When an insurance carrier...
How Flexible Scheduling Supports Employee Wellbeing
Flexibility Enhances Core Areas of Wellbeing For many years, Gallup has researched what it takes for people to feel contentment and believe their lives are rewarding. These five universal elements of wellbeing are shared by all people: Career Wellbeing: to have a...
A Memo From Wanda (Sept 2017)
Leaves of Absence are Risky, Complex for Unprepared Employers One of the most common, complicated situations for employers is how to handle employee leaves of absence. An example that comes to mind.... A couple of years ago, a client called us about an employee who’d...
The Voice on the Phone: Abby Walker
For Abby Walker, Solving Customers’ Problems isn’t a Job, It’s a Calling Abby Walker, a helpful voice on the phone for many Savers Admin clients, feels that helping is more than a job. For her, she said, it’s a calling. “I really do like being able to solve problems,”...
Ask Julie: How Can Our Problem Solvers Help you?
Are deductions for medical, dental and other insurance pre-tax for our employees? Maybe. Certain insurance deductions can be pre-tax for employees, but only if the employer has a Section 125 Cafeteria Plan in place. A Cafeteria Plan requires a formal signed plan...
With Modern Systems, Piedmont Candy Produces Old-Fashioned Peppermints
LEXINGTON – It’s a candy factory. Not a movie fantasy like Willy Wonka’s, but a special place nonetheless. The bracing aroma of peppermint pervades the building and clings sweetly to clothes when you leave. Workers in lab coats and hair nets move among gleaming...
New I9 Forms – Changes beginning Monday, September 18, 2017
Beginning Monday, September 18, employers must use the revised Form I-9 for all new employees. This new version of the form has the revision date of 7/17/17. The I-9 form can be found here or on the HR Support Center.You can visit USCIS’s I-9 Central or the News Desk...
Health Policy Update
Health Policy UpdateNov. 1, 2017 – ACA Open-enrollment Period ApproachesAs of March 2017, about 10.3 million people signed up and paid for coverage on the ACA exchanges. The next enrollment period begins Nov. 1, 2017 and lasts 45 days. HHS officials said there is no...
Work-Life Integration: Effectively Blending Work & Life
How to Help Employees Blend Work and Life Effectively Five years ago, forward-thinking HR executives were thinking about work-life balance and how to help busy, stressed-out employees find enough downtime outside the office. In over two years of Herman Miller...
5 Tips for Improving Your Payroll Automation
One-third of Employers Make Costly Payroll Mistakes September 4th – 8th is National Payroll Week—a week that “celebrates the hard work by America's 150 million wage earners and the payroll professionals who pay them.” Did you know that 67% of the annual revenue of the...
Employee Benefits: Consumer-Driven Health Care Plan (CDHP)
Although Consumer-Driven Health Care Plans have been around for a while as an option for employee benefits, many employers don’t fully understand how they work. CDHPs were designed to help small to medium-sized employers pay for health care benefits for their...
24/7 Telemedicine Support for Impacted Harvey Victims
We are proud to share that our partners for telemedicine are providing free telemedicine services to those impacted by Hurricane Harvey . Both Teledoc and MDLive (until 9/8/17) can be reached 24/7 for non-emergency related illnesses or issues. Board certified...
Candidate asks during interview if his social anxiety would prevent him from being considered for a job.
Question:One of our employees interviewed a candidate today and emailed me afterwards. He was impressed by the candidate, but grew concerned after the candidate mentioned having social anxiety. He wondered whether the anxiety could affect the candidate’s ability to do...
Necessities & Health Care – Where U.S. Consumers Spend Their Money
Necessities & Health Care – Where U.S. Consumers Spend Their MoneyConsumers spend most of their money on necessities, especially housing and health care. The brick-and-mortar retail industry is in crisis. For many old-line retailers, sales and market share are...
How the Feds Are Improving Their Real Estate Usage
How the Feds Are Using Data to Right-Size a Massive Real Estate Portfolio Big Government Equals Big Real Estate According to the 2016 summary of findings from the Federal Real Property Profile dataset, the U.S. government has 267,000 buildings in its domestic real...
Complying with ACA Reporting Requirements
Employers Should Comply Now with ACA Reporting Requirements The ACA May Be Here to Stay Congress made several attempts, but ultimately failed to garner the votes needed to repeal and replace, or even amend the Affordable Care Act. Although President Trump continues to...
TelePayroll 401 Retirement Plan Series
TelePayroll 401 Retirement Plan SeriesRetirement Planning – Getting Through the MazeStarting a retirement savings plan can be easier than most business owners think. What’s more, there are a number of retirement programs that provide tax advantages to both employers...
Five Small Steps for Getting Started with HR Data Analytics
How HR Leaders Can Take Small Steps to Begin Utilizing HR Analytics When Drinking from a Fire Hose, Take Small Sips Today, there’s no shortage of talk about Big Data and how to use it to improve all kinds of aspects of a business. Because employee costs are one of the...
An Analysis of The Physician Perspective On Single-Payer Health Care System
An Analysis of The Physician Perspective On Single-Payer Health Care SystemSingle-payer health care is a controversial idea in the U.S., but a majority of physicians now support it, new survey finds.Fifty-six percent of doctors registered either strong support or were...
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