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Understanding How Employee Life Cycle Impacts Your Productivity
As a small business owner, you need to understand how an employee’s productivity lifecycle works. From the start of an employee’s career to its end, the ratio of labor cost to profit significantly changes. By understanding how this lifecycle shifts and how to track...
Understanding How Employee Life Cycle Impacts Your Productivity
As a small business owner, you need to understand how an employee’s productivity lifecycle works. From the start of an employee’s career to its end, the ratio of labor cost to profit significantly changes. By understanding how this lifecycle shifts and how to track...
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Building An Employer Brand: How Small Businesses Can Use Marketing to Attract and Retain The Best Talent
“People distrust perfection. The more authenticity you can show, the more people connect with your brand. No one wants to do it themselves—they want to see the care and quality you put into your work, and that's what attracts them to you.” In episode #122 of Mission...
Automated Time and Attendance Solutions for the Modern Workplace
Today’s workforce is changing, with millennials now making up the largest percentage of its employees. This creates a bigger need for remote work, hoteling, and other modern human capital management solutions. Modern technology enables communication and collaboration...
EXEMPT OR NON-EXEMPT – “What is the Easiest way to communicate the new overtime rules?” December 1st is just around the corner
Common Questions We're Hearing:Business Owner:I’m trying to think of the easiest way to deal with the new overtime rules. We have employees working in many locations, so I was thinking I could just send a company-wide email telling ALL employees that their overtime...
ACA Compliance – Are You Ready?
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) runs 11,000 pages and is divided into 10 titles. Complying with this landmark law has been challenging for employers, as it contains many wide-ranging provisions that are being phased in through to 2020. Most...
FLSA and the Trucking Industry
With the Fair Labor Standards Act’s new overtime regulation going into effect starting Dec. 1, 2016, companies across the U.S. are taking steps to ensure compliance. Among the many industries impacted by these changes, truckers face new challenges set forth by...
Diversity – A Competitive Advantage
Recently, Austin HR was approached by a reporter from the Austin American-Statesman's online 512tech site to provide a perspective on the topic of diversity as a strategic advantage. The thrust of the article was that more and more companies are embracing the...
Increase Security with Facial Recognition Technology
Managing time and attendance for your company can be challenging—especially when you have more than a few employees. From punch cards to time clocks, employees have tried almost everything to ensure their employees’ workdays are accurately and efficiently recorded....
New Overtime Rule
The changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime provision have caused concern among many of our clients. Questions range from what the changes actually are, who they apply to, and how to prepare for them. We have compiled answers to a few high...
EEO1 – New Federal Law Alert
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that it will require employers with 100 or more employees to submit summary pay data and total hours worked for the year as part of the annual EEO-1 report.The first report, capturing data from 2017,...
Harassment and Hostile Work Environment — In the News
Recently, KVUE, Austin's affiliate TV station, reached out to our firm inquiring how HR is handling harassment and hostile work environment situations for its clients. Click here to see our own, David Hughen's interview and comments on this topic. Everyone seems...
Wage Hour Update for Federal Contractors – Executive Order 13706, Establishing Paid Sick Leave
The Department of Labor has announced that on September 30, 2016, it will publish a final rule to implement Executive Order 13706, Establishing Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors. Executive Order 13706 was signed by President Barack Obama on September 7, 2015,...
3 HCM Market Trends That Enable Total Workforce Management
It's said that employees don't work for companies—they work for leaders. Or more specifically, they work for people. Distilled down to its essence, that statement implies that employees are interested in a stimulating and culturally engaging work life. Gone are the...
2016 Year-end Payroll Deadlines Announced
For 2016, the IRS is requiring that Forms W-2 and 1099-MISC be filed by January 31, 2017, which is a month earlier than in prior years. To meet this new deadline, all due dates leading up to it must also be earlier. Savers Admin is committed to meeting this important...
Official Information About ACA – November 2016
Official Information About ACA – November 2016Latest Analysis of 2017 Premiums & insurer Participation Provided by Healthcare.gov & Data Collected From States Running Their Own Exchange WebsitesInsurer Participation in the AFA Health Insurance...
It’s Time for HCM to Change
If you ask 10 different HR managers about their definition of HCM (Human Capital Management), you'll get 10 different answers. This is the result of two things: first, the term HCM has expanded over the last several years to include everything related to general HR...
Health FSA Maximum Increases to $2,600 in 2017
On Tuesday, October 25, 2016, the IRS released Revenue Procedure 2016-55, which included a $50 inflation-adjustment increase on voluntary employee salary reductions for contributions to a Health FSA. For an FSA plan year beginning or renewing on or after January...
Preparing for New Overtime Law
October is here and this year there is more to start preparing for than the holidays. Changes to the overtime provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act are currently scheduled take effect on December 1; therefore, the time to ensure compliance with the law is drawing...
ACA Reporting Vital for Employers
What is ACA Reporting? Congress says that the IRS needs to make sure that employers are either offering affordable, minimum value or essential coverage plans to their full time employees or are paying the penalty tax. The new legislation requires...
Make a Scream this Halloween with Company Parties – Go Trick or Treating for Company Culture this Halloween
The spookiest time of the year is almost upon us! No, not the presidential election—Halloween. That means you need to get candy ready for trick-or-treaters, plan some ghostly activities—and figure out what costume you’re wearing to the office Halloween party.Whether...
Independent Contractors Vs Employees: Knowing the Difference Makes All the Difference
Deciding whether a worker is an independent contractor or an employee can be tricky, but knowing the difference can greatly affect proper tax compliance—but it’s not as simple as you might think. Many employers either find classification confusing or deliberately...
The Down-low on Sick Time and its Impact on Your Company
In the age of Internet enlightenment, the world is literally at your fingertips. YouTube tutorials can teach you anything from how to change a lightbulb to how to write intricate code. And while a simple Google search will alert you to the population of Turkmenistan...
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