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Top 10 Payroll Mistakes to Avoid
Avoid the frightening reality of payroll mistakes. Payroll management is a critical function for businesses of all sizes. Accurate and compliant payroll processing is essential to ensure employees are paid correctly and on time while avoiding costly mistakes and...
Top 10 Payroll Mistakes to Avoid
Avoid the frightening reality of payroll mistakes. Payroll management is a critical function for businesses of all sizes. Accurate and compliant payroll processing is essential to ensure employees are paid correctly and on time while avoiding costly mistakes and...
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The Benefits and Drawbacks To Offering Unlimited Paid Time Off
The war for talent is only going to continue for the foreseeable future. Thanks to changing demographics and the retirement of baby boomers, there are fewer workers available to fill open positions. In an effort to track in-demand, highly skilled employees, many...
Q & A: Should employees get paid to check email while on vacation?
Q: A non-exempt employee has asked to be paid for the hour she spent checking work email while she was out on vacation. We didn’t request, require, or authorize this work. How do we handle this?A: Although you didn’t give this non-exempt employee permission to check...
Is Your HCM Solution Keeping Up with Today’s Workforce?
Human Capital Management, or HCM, is vital to business, maximizing people’s value and minimizing how much is spent on management. HCM deals with some of the basic elements that keep the company running, like payroll, HR management, time and attendance, and benefits...
Identifying the HR Disruptors for 2016
The HR world is undergoing major transformation. It used to be that HR’s tasks were simply to make sure everyone got their paychecks and benefits, process performance reviews, and handle conflicts too complex for managers to deal with themselves. Technological...
Preparing for a Millennial led workforce
The impact millennials will have on the global workforce when they soon take over most leadership roles is set to revolutionize the way workplace value is perceived and created. In short – millennials are set to completely change the face of business. The work life of...
Internships – Unpaid or Paid?
Unpaid internships are permissible if they meet very specific criteria, but employers should proceed with extreme caution.The Department of Labor has a six-part test for determining whether interns may be unpaid. As a best practice, we recommend that you use unpaid...
Managing Three Generations in The Workplace
Clashing generational interests are commonplace in the modern workforce. Managing each age group’s expectations is often difficult. While catering to every demographic’s particular strengths and weaknesses may not be possible, understanding each generation’s needs can...
Technology that Fully Engages Your Workforce
Competition for top talent is forcing employers to cast increasingly wide nets that reach far outside a company headquarters' local area. As this practice becomes more prevalent, it's incumbent upon employers to leverage every potential avenue for retaining top talent...
The Value of Retention: Hiring and Keeping Employees for the Long Haul
After you have hired an employee, only half the battle is won. Retaining your hard-won employees is a constant challenge, not a one-time win. Building long-term commitment and loyalty among employees is the key to keeping them on board for the long haul.Fostering an...
Common Mistakes in Change Management and How to Avoid Them
Far too many change management initiatives fail. If transitions are handled properly, however, they can yield plentiful results and strong returns for businesses. Understanding the common mistakes companies make can help prevent failure and maximize your chances of...
Change Management: Creating Change That Lasts
“Be the change you wish to see in the world,” while an oft quoted statement and very applicable in a myriad of situations, it is especially important in circumstances where transitions are underway. Change management processes often fail, because the transition “is...
How does FLSA Exempt Legal Requirements affect Commissioned Sales Employees?
Questions are starting to role in regarding exempt classification salary threshold change. Here's one we are getting more often than others:We have two currently salaried employees who make about $42,000 per year. However, with commissions, we estimate that they will...
USA Payroll acquires HR consulting firm
USA Payroll acquires HR consulting firm By NATE DOUGHERTY • May 24, 2016 USA Payroll Inc. has acquired a local human resources and regulatory compliance consulting company, a move officials from both companies said will expand USA Payroll’s services and lead to...
DOL Issues New Overtime Payment Rules
On May 18, 2016, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued important new rules regarding overtime pay for exempt, salaried employees. These new rules, which become effective December 1, 2016, require that employers begin tracking all hours worked by exempt, salaried...
The Hidden Benefits of Company Culture
If an employee is engaged, their positive energy also emanates to other employees. Company culture-building factors can be anything from instigating weekly Friday team lunches to celebrating Star Wars: The Force Awakens premiere as an office. Team-building activities...
IRS Working to Correct Erroneous Failure to Deposit Notices
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently issued an alert to payroll processors advising them that it sent out erroneous Failure to Deposit Notices for the April 2016 deadline. Following is the correspondence from the IRS: Due to the observed holiday on...
Final FLSA White Collar Exemption Rules Announced
Yesterday, the Department of Labor announced the new salary threshold for certain employees to qualify as exempt from minimum wage and overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act’s White Collar Exemptions.Effective December 1, 2016, the new minimum salary level will...
Creative Collaboration Trends
One of the keys to effective collaboration is to provide a functional, yet inspirational space where employees want to meet and can do so efficiently. Tight cubicles and and dingy, fluorescent-lit conference rooms are not conducive to collaboration and certainly don’t...
Verifying Employee Social Security Numbers is Crucial for Payroll
Nearly every American citizen has one, but it can be difficult sometimes for people to remember their Social Security number. This is especially true when under pressure to complete important employment documentation or when the physical card is unavailable for...
New York State Minimum Wage Reimbursement Credit
Employers that employ students in New York State who are least 16 but not yet 20 years of age and are paid at the New York minimum wage rate may be entitled to a refundable tax credit if the student was employed for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2014, and...
Q & A: What is the difference between an exempt employee and a non-exempt employee?
What is the difference between an exempt employee and a non-exempt employee? “Exempt” and “non-exempt” are employee classifications under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)—a federal law dating back to 1938 that requires certain employees to receive minimum wage and...
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