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Proactive HR vs. Reactive HR: Avoid Unpleasant Surprises for Your Small Business
Outsourcing HR tasks can set small businesses up for success. For small businesses, managing human resources can be a juggling act. With limited staff, tight budgets, and evolving regulations, HR can often feel overwhelming. The key to managing it effectively—and...
Proactive HR vs. Reactive HR: Avoid Unpleasant Surprises for Your Small Business
Outsourcing HR tasks can set small businesses up for success. For small businesses, managing human resources can be a juggling act. With limited staff, tight budgets, and evolving regulations, HR can often feel overwhelming. The key to managing it effectively—and...
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How To Win the War for Talent: Navigate a Tight Labor Market
In the war for talent, the right HR practices can determine whether you can hire and retain the best workers or not. Thanks to changing demographic trends, finding top-quality workers isn’t as easy as it was a few decades ago. By making a few changes to the way you...
The EEOC: What to Expect in 2014
The EEOC: Looking Back on 2013, What to Expect in 2014 In December, 2013, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its Performance and Accountability Report for fiscal year 2013. The last year was filled with challenges for the agency, from financial...
Finally! IRS Provides Final Play-Or-Pay Guidance
On February 11, 2014, the IRS released final regulations implementing the employer shared responsibility provisions of the Affordable Care Act, also known as the “employer mandate” and “play-or-pay” requirement. In this article, we summarize some of the most salient...
Health Care Reform: The Employer Mandate
The Department of Treasury announced on February 10 that businesses with 50 to 99 full time equivalent employees will not face a tax penalty under the Employer Mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as a result of not providing health care coverage to...
The Whole Point of “Change Management” is to Change, Right?- Part 1: What, Why & How
By Mike Kinney, Vice President of SalesAs part of our Executive Series, Asure Software's Vice President of AsureSpace Sales, Mike Kinney, has put together a 2 part look at change management, "The Whole Point of “Change Management” is to Change, Right?"Read more about...
Workplace safety top concern for businesses in 2014
Keeping employees safe at work is a top concern for small business owners, according to a survey sponsored by Employers Holdings, a national holding company for workers’ compensation insurance carriers.Workplace safety risks were cited as the source of greatest worry...
IRS Issues Final Affordable Care Act “Pay Or Play” Regulations
On Monday, the IRS issued final regulations regarding the implementation of the employer shared responsibility provisions under the Affordable Care Act (the ACA), otherwise known as the “pay or play” rules. The final regulations provide some helpful guidance and...
2014 Health Care Reform Update
2014 was anticipated to be a monumental year with respect to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. However, with the one-year delay of the employer mandate (the provision of Health Care Reform that fines certain businesses for failing to provide health...
Employee or Independent Contractor? – If You Have the Right to Control Them, They’re Yours
Note: Article written referencing Connecticut Law; however, fundamentals around contractor definition applies in Texas as well. When we analyze the question whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor, we usually approach the issue from the point of...
If an employee calls his supervisor a nasty name on Facebook…..
If an employee calls his supervisor a “nasty motherf[**]ker” on Facebook, would the employee lose the protection that he would otherwise enjoy under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)? Probably not, according to National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) decisions...
Employers not required to post NLRB’s notice of employee rights
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) posting rule has been laid to rest.The NLRB had issued a rule in 2011 requiring most private sector employers to post a notice telling employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).The requirement was...
The Whole Point of Change Management is to Change Right?- Part 2:The Three Common Mistakes In Executing Successful Change
By Mike Kinney, Vice President of SalesIn Part 2 of Asure Software's Vice President of AsureSpace Sales, Mike Kinney's look at change management, he delves into the three most common mistakes in executing successful change. We have received some great responses to...
What do we do when an employee shares they are diagnosed with depression?
Q: One of my employees has been spoken to about his diminished job performance. The employee opened up and stated the change in work output is due to a diagnosis of depression. We have given the employee a week off; can we obligate the employee to take a medical leave...
Minimum Wage Increase for Federal Contract Employees
President Obama announced that in the next few weeks, he will sign an executive order raising the minimum wage for workers covered by new federal contracts to $10.10 an hour. This increase will be very limited in scope; it will only apply to employees who would...
The OFCCP Disability Self-Identification Form Has Been Finalized
On January 22, 2014, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved the OFCCP's disability status form, which will be used by federal contractors. Revised regulations under the Rehabilitation Act will require federal contractors to invite applicants and employees...
Employer To Do List for the New Year (2014)
As the new year is getting under way, employers should consider placing these developing issues at the top of their to do list:Social Media PoliciesEmployers should consider reviewing and updating social media policies in light of recent legislation and litigation....
Happy Valentine’s Day! Please Sign This Love Contract Before You Go To Lunch…
It’s Valentine’s Day, and love is in the air … and the office. And more often than not, that is NOT a good thing for everyone involved. So what can employers do to minimize the potentially disruptive effects of colleagues and coworkers canoodling? Here’s a good...
White House relaxes Healthcare Reform Mandate for Employers with 50-99 employees
The White House is relaxing the employer mandate again. The Treasury Department on Monday rolled out more tweaks to the health-care law's requirement that all large employers--those with 50 or more workers--provide insurance coverage to their workers. This is the...
2014 – Are you ready? Performance Management vs. Performance Review
FEBRUARY 7, 2014: AUSTIN, TX— NOW IS THE TIME FOR YOUR COMPANY TO ACT ON PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT: Will your managers and employees be thinking “performance review” or “performance management”? Your company may be poised to use the performance management process to...
2014 Minimum Wage Changes
Our federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, but many states choose to have their own minimum wage laws as well. Currently, 21 states have a rate higher than the federal rate, and 13 of those have made changes as of January 1, 2014. Our federal minimum wage is $7.25 an...
Additional Health Care Reform FAQs Issued
This morning the Department of Labor, Health and Human Services and the Treasury Department released additional Frequently Asked Questions relating to implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Among the topics discussed include administrative issues relating to out...
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