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Fast-Growth Companies: How Recruiting & Hiring Practices Can Make or Break Your Success
Do you know what it takes to succeed in today’s business climate? While every company is different, we’ve found that there are a few commonalities that set fast-growth companies apart from zero-growth businesses. In Asure’s recent 2024 HR Benchmark Report, we looked...
Fast-Growth Companies: How Recruiting & Hiring Practices Can Make or Break Your Success
Do you know what it takes to succeed in today’s business climate? While every company is different, we’ve found that there are a few commonalities that set fast-growth companies apart from zero-growth businesses. In Asure’s recent 2024 HR Benchmark Report, we looked...
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The 3 Key Ways SECURE Act 2.0 Helps Employers
While there have always been tax benefits of 401(k)s for employers, SECURE Act 2.0 is changing the way businesses and workers save for retirement. As a business owner, it’s important to understand how these 401(k) benefits can impact your bottom line and your ability...
Outsourcing HR – Forbes Top 5 Reasons HR Is On The Move
1) It frees them to concentrate on core competencies. HR does not produce a product, yet it can eat up a lot of an organization’s time and energy. A great HR department demands resources and continual oversight and innovation. Many organizations would rather focus on...
Employment NonDiscrimination Act (ENDA), U.S. Senate appears certain to pass this month
There have been many news stories recently about the Employment NonDiscrimination Act (ENDA), which the U.S. Senate appears certain to pass this month. Commentators have different opinions about whether the House of Representatives will also pass some version of ENDA....
Topics To Consider When Hiring Seasonal Workers
As 2013 comes to an end, we will consider a number of issues that employers might be facing at the end of the year. In this blog series, we will cover topics such as seasonal hiring, religious discrimination claims stemming from the holidays, liability issues arising...
Holiday Party or Legal Nightmare?
Tips to take heed of during this time of year:Sexual harassment, fights between co-workers, employees driving home drunk – the list of potential liabilities is enough to make an employer consider cancelling the annual holiday party altogether.But if doesn’t have to be...
A Health FSA Plan Must Meet the Definition of an Excepted Benefit
To remain compliant under new health care regulations, health FSA plans renewing January 1, 2014 or after must meet the requirements of an excepted benefit.* The term "excepted benefit" refers to benefits that have been excepted from the portability rules under HIPAA....
Tips for Writing Job Descriptions
In our previous HR post, we discussed the importance of job descriptions (Job Descriptions – Why Have Them?). Now we’d like to give you some pointers for writing the job descriptions. Where to Start? Current Employees Do you have current employees in the...
Important Notice Regarding New NC-4 Requirements for 2014
The North Carolina General Assembly recently enacted House Bill 998 which becomes effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014. Under this new law, taxpayers may no longer claim a personal exemption for themselves, their spouse, children, or any...
Mandatory arbitration agreement in employee handbook is found unenforceable
Employers want to compel employees to submit legal disputes to arbitration instead of a jury. Employers worry about the unpredictability of juries. Employers prefer to not air their dirty laundry with a public jury trial. So, employers ask employees to agree that...
The NLRB Strikes Down Employer Policies on Social Media and the Confidentiality of Complaint Investigations
Many employers have been surprised by recent rulings that two common employment policies run afoul of the National Labor Relations Act (“NLRA”) even if their employees are not union members. Based on a legitimate interest in preserving confidentiality and privacy,...
Texas Files Suit to Strike Down EEOC Background Check Guidance
Don’t mess with Texas.The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) usually forces employers who are subject to Title VII to play defense. The State of Texas, however, has upended that approach. On November 4, 2013, Texas filed a federal lawsuit that seeks to...
Open Enrollment Applies to COBRA too . . .
January 1st is the busiest time of year for Benefit Renewals and changes. Just as the U.S. Department of Labor requires employers to notify their active employees of benefit changes timely in advance, this rule also applies to COBRA participants. COBRA...
IRS Guidance Provides An Alternative to the Current “Grace Period Rule” for FSA’s
The Internal Revenue Service recently released Notice 2013-71, which provides an alternative to the Grace Period Rule for health flexible spending arrangements (FSA). Under this alternative, cafeteria plans may now allow employees to carry over up to $500 of unused...
Health FSA Use-It-Or-Lose-It Rule Modified
The IRS has modified the use-it-or-lose-it rule for flexible spending accounts that has long frustrated many employees who would like to participate in their employer’s plan. Up until November 2013 there were two options employers could choose from when setting up...
PPACA Notice Alert
Health Insurance Exchanges Reach One Month Anniversary - Open enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplaces (also known as Health Insurance Exchanges) commenced on 10/1/2013 in preparation for the January 1, 2014 mandate for individuals to be covered by health...
Tips for Employee File Maintenance
Purpose and Overview: It is vital to secure and retain new employee forms in compliance with state and federal regulations and employer’s personnel policies. Periodic review of personnel file contents should not be overseen.Some "Best Practices" for employee file...
Holiday Parties and Alcohol
The holidays are approaching faster than the department stores can replace the summer final clearance items off the display racks with the holiday-themed merchandise that will engulf retailers’ locations for the immediate months to come. The rapidly approaching...
Top Five HR-Related Concerns for Small Business Owners
Based on the feedback we hear from our small business clients on a daily basis, we have compiled a list of the top five fears that small business owners face going into 2014. Below are a few tips of the trade to assist employers in these areas.Finding the Right...
Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Update
The U.S Treasury Department announced yesterday that it is making a change to the IRS Use-it-or-Lose-it Rule for FSA accounts. (This is the rule that says participants forfeit any unspent funds after a plan year ends.) This change will allow an employer to offer...
IRS Recognizes All Same-Sex Marriages for Pretax Benefits
9/23/2013 By Stephen Miller, CEBS | SHRMRuling extends pretax treatment to same-sex spouses' health insurance coverage in all 50 statesUnder a new Internal Revenue Service ruling, employees who pay for employer-provided health insurance for their same-sex spouse may...
Fourth Circuit “Likes” First Amendment Protection for Social Media Speech
A Facebook "like" is speech protected by the First Amendment, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, reversing a federal court decision that the form of social media communication was not eligible for constitutional protection.“On the most basic level,...
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