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How Payroll and Tax Software Helps You Improve Accuracy and Remain Compliant
When you implement payroll and tax software, it helps to decrease the hours your employees have to spend on time-consuming tasks. More importantly, it improves your company’s accuracy and regulatory compliance. Instead of devoting your time to handling payroll and tax...
How Payroll and Tax Software Helps You Improve Accuracy and Remain Compliant
When you implement payroll and tax software, it helps to decrease the hours your employees have to spend on time-consuming tasks. More importantly, it improves your company’s accuracy and regulatory compliance. Instead of devoting your time to handling payroll and tax...
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People Management Solutions: What Software Does Your Small Business Need?
Around half of small businesses fail by their fifth year of operations. Fortunately, there are a few important measures you can take to be more efficient and profitable. By deploying your company’s resources in a smarter way, you can save money on labor costs, prevent...
2015 – What do employers need to know about tracking employee hours for healthcare reform?
We have received several questions around this topic as 2015 approaches. How employers schedule hours for their hourly and part-time employees this year will affect how hours are calculated next year for healthcare reform. If employers want to ensure part-time...
Healthcare Reform – Employer Mandate Penalties
The Employer Mandate is the Health Care Reform provision that requires all employers with 50 or more full time equivalent employees to offer a certain level of health insurance coverage at an affordable rate to all full-time employees, or face a penalty. The Employer...
Great Interview Questions – Find out key indicators early in the process
In today's market, finding the right person who will fit your culture and even more so, live up to your expectations, takes time on the front side. Asking probing questions can be very telling. Asking the same questions consistently of all candidates ensures you're...
New Rules for Reporting Injuries & Illnesses (OSHA)
New OSHA Rule Changes Employers' Injury/Illness Reporting RequirementsOn September 11, 2014, OSHA issued a final rule regarding employers' recordkeeping and reporting of occupational injuries/illnesses. The final rule takes effect on January 1, 2015, and includes a...
Attention Employers with 100+ Employees – EEO1 Reports are due Sept 30th
EEO-1: Who Must FileStandard Form 100 (EEO-1) must be filed by --All private employers who are:subject to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (as amended by the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972) with 100 or more employees EXCLUDING State and local...
Password Protection Laws
In 2012, Maryland became the first state to prohibit employers from requiring employees or job applicants to provide passwords to their personal social media accounts. Since then, the trend for states to limit employers' access to personal online content has been...
Contraceptive Mandate Accommodation
Agencies Release New Accommodations from Contraceptive Mandate for Nonprofit Organizations and for Closely-Held, For-Profit Corporations Agencies Release New Accommodations from Contraceptive Mandate for Nonprofit Organizations and for Closely-Held, For-Profit...
New York City Earned Sick Time Act (Paid Sick Leave Law)
Effective April 1, 2014, under the New York City Earned Sick Time Act, certain employers with five or more employees who are hired to work more than 80 hours a calendar year in New York City must provide paid sick leave which employees can use for the care and...
Exempt & Non-Exempt – LinkedIn in the News
LinkedIn forks over $6 million in back wages, damages for unpaid overtimeLabor Department accused the company of shortchanging 359 workersIt doesn’t pay to short employees for working overtime. Just ask LinkedIn.The U.S. Labor Department announced on Monday that the...
Background Checks-When do they Cross the Line
Employers have become well-attuned to the importance of selecting job candidates that are qualified and will fit well with the organization’s culture. Prior to extending an offer of employment to a viable candidate, best practices in conducting a background check are...
Religion in the Workplace
We all know that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on a job applicant’s or employee’s religion. However, did you know that federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws also require employers to provide workplace accommodations to...
How Asure Software Views The Changing Business Climate
By Craig SeagerChannel Director for EMEA/APACIn my first Channel-focused blog post we discussed how important we view our Asure Software relationship with our Channel partners.Now I want to share our view of how the business world is evolving and the benefits we see...
California Employers Now Allowed to Impose 90 Day Waiting Period for Health Care Coverage
Governor Jerry Brown recently signed legislation that once again changes the health care landscape for California employers who offer health insurance to their employees. Previously, employers in California who offered group health plans could implement a maximum...
Tech Companies & Cool Cultures
Twitter tops all in culture and values, employees sayTech industry accounts for 11 out of 25 companies rated highest by employees, according to Glassdoor report.Roof-top meetings and friendly colleagues helped to make Twitter’s employees the happiest in the country,...
Multi-Generations in the Workplace: Making Differences a Workplace Asset
For the first time in recorded history, the workplace encompasses four distinctive generations. The Traditionalists, sometimes referred to as War Babies, Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y (also known as the Millennial Generation). Each generation was raised...
Executive Order for Federal Contractors Prohibiting Discrimination based on Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation
Yesterday (July 21, 2014), President Obama signed an Executive Order prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating against employees based on gender identity and sexual orientation. Specifically, the Executive Order amends Executive Order 11246 to add gender...
Asure Channel Partners
By Craig SeagerChannel Director for EMEA/APAC The Ever-Changing Global Enterprise Is Ripe for Asure Software Solutions A recent report by IDC listed Alignment, Agility and Analytics as three of the key corporate challenges in 2014.These challenges and the current...
5 Ways LinkedIn Could Have Avoided Wage Violations
LinkedIn’s recent class action settlement cost $6 million in back wages and fines to the U.S. Department of Labor and added it to the over 30,000 cases that the Wage and Hours Division pursues each year. Annually, over a quarter million workers are impacted in cases...
Three Trends of Our Changing Workforce- Part 4
By Jennifer Roth, Vice President of MarketingIn recent weeks, I’ve blogged here, here and here about the trends of globalization, mobilization and technology. When thinking about today’s workforce and your own workspace, you must have your eye on all three because...
Supreme Court: Private employers need not provide contraception coverage
On June 30, in a 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held that closely held for-profit corporations cannot be required to provide contraception coverage. The requirement is part of the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) provision requiring private companies to include...
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