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How Small Businesses Can Benefit From Employee Self-Service Tools
Many small businesses don’t realize just how much time is spent on entering data. Each time an employee needs to update their W-4 form or adjust their benefits, an HR employee has to manually change that information. Then, the HR professional has to update the same...
How Small Businesses Can Benefit From Employee Self-Service Tools
Many small businesses don’t realize just how much time is spent on entering data. Each time an employee needs to update their W-4 form or adjust their benefits, an HR employee has to manually change that information. Then, the HR professional has to update the same...
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Managing Employee Data: The Benefits of All-in-One-Place People Management Tools
By investing in people management tools, you can simplify your employee management tasks and ensure your data is protected. Depending on your goals, the best people management tools can involve HR, payroll, and tax software programs. When you choose an all-in-one...
Empower Your Staff with Smarter HR
To better engage staff members, what should human resource managers include in their empowerment initiatives? Over the last decade, businesses have certainly kept their employees smiling. According to recent figures from the Society for Human Resource Management...
Four Advantages of Outsourcing Payroll
In general, businesses manage their payroll duties one of two ways, either handling payroll processing and its associated duties in-house, or outsourcing these activities through a third party like a CPA or payroll processing company. Although many businesses choose...
Insurance Companies Sharpen Their Pencils on Costs for 2018
Insurance Companies Sharpen Their Pencils on Costs for 2018Insurers appear to be leaning toward cost increases in the proposed new ACA proposed bill. Based on regulatory filings in two states – Virginia and Maryland – saw several insurers seeking major premium...
ACA Update – Three Key Takeaways
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Working Interviews and Alternatives
Few things are more frustrating for employers than finding out that a new hire oversold their knowledge, skills, and abilities. The employee looked great on paper and appeared confident and competent in the interview, but when it came to doing the basic duties of the...
The Real Costs of Employee Turnover—And How to Measure Them
Employee turnover is expensive—more so than you might think. According to a recent survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, the average cost-per-hire is $4,129. However, turnover costs can vary depending on the length of time it takes to fill the role, the...
BREAKING NEWS Obamacare Repeal Passes the House
BREAKING NEWS Obamacare Repeal Passes the HouseHouse Republicans on Thursday narrowly approved a sweeping health care bill aimed at fulfilling an overturn of ObamaCare. The revised American Health Care Act passed on a 217-213 vote.The passage marked Republicans’...
Wage Theft Prevention Act (WTPA) – New York
Section 195 of the New York Labor Law, requires all employers, other than governmental agencies, to give employees at the time of hire (before work is performed), notice of the following: The employee's rate or rates of pay The overtime rate of pay, if the employee is...
One of our employees has chicken pox. Is it okay to tell our other employees about this condition?
We recommend informing employees that they may have been exposed to chicken pox, but would not reveal the name of the employee who has the condition. We would also limit the announcement to those employees who have a need to know, i.e., those who may have come into...
A Minor Technicality On Pay Stub Can Cost Employers Big Bucks
A Minor Technicality On Pay Stub Can Cost Employers Big BucksToday’s business can be susceptible to lawsuits, big fines, and headaches in areas they take for granted.1- Imagine being sued by every single one of the employees who worked for you over the past four years...
How Time & Attendance Tools Help Work Life Balance
How Flexible Time and Attendance Policies Became a Critical Employee Benefit The Evolution of Work-life BalanceWork-life balance has been an important HCM topic for decades. The term was first used in the UK in the 1970’s to describe the balance between an...
Proposed Workers Comp Insurance Change in July
Proposed Workers Comp Insurance Change in JulyThe California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is filing a proposed rate reduction for California workers’ compensation insurance "pure premium" rates on average to become effective July 1, 2017.These are to...
Top 3 Challenges of Managing Top Performers
All companies hope to attract the best talent in their field, but managing top performers creates unique challenges, from toxic competition to high employee turnover rates and even legal issues.How can you harness the potential of your most talented employees so that...
Latest Update on ObamaCare
Latest Update on ObamaCareObamaCare UpdatesTo help you keep up to date on what’s happening with ObamaCare we provide the latest ObamaCare information that affects you, your family and your business.As of today the ACA remains the law of the land until further notice....
If an employee’s FMLA time has run out, but they say they’re not able to return to work can we terminate them?
Even if an employee has exhausted their FMLA leave for the year, their condition may fall under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Under the ADA, a disabled employee is one who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major...
New York Minimum Wage Increases
The Minimum Wage rates are scheduled to increase each year on 12/31 until they reach $15.00 per hour. Employers must post a Minimum Wage Information poster in their establishment. General Minimum Wage Rate Schedule Location 12/31/16 12/31/17 12/31/18 12/31/19 12/31/20...
Research Tax Credit for Small Businesses
IRS Notice 2017-23, provides guidance on a new provision explaining how eligible small businesses can take advantage of a new option enabling them to apply part or all of their research credit against their payroll tax liability, instead of their income tax liability....
Easiest Way to Avoid Data Silos with HCM Software
Dueling Data: Getting to a Single Source of Truth in HCM Data silos in human capital management (HCM) are a major issue, especially for midsize and large organizations. Each department within a company typically develops its own processes for data input and storage...
Prepare for New ACA with Benefits Admin Software
As the ACA evolves to the AHCA or whatever is next, offering good benefits is the still best plan for employers Re-examining your healthcare benefits management throughout 2017 After spending years first understanding and then changing plans and processes to comply...
Where the AHCA Stands Today
Where the AHCA Stands TodayWhere the AHCA Stands TodayThough the proposed American Health Care Act (AHCA) to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act has passed through three key committees, we await full House and Senate review of the AHCA). The new law will change...
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