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Unlocking Team Potential with Personality Tests
How Personality Tests Can Boost Team Building and HR Best Practices for Small Businesses In today’s evolving workplace, small businesses are always seeking ways to improve team performance and create cohesive work environments. One emerging HR best practice for team...
Unlocking Team Potential with Personality Tests
How Personality Tests Can Boost Team Building and HR Best Practices for Small Businesses In today’s evolving workplace, small businesses are always seeking ways to improve team performance and create cohesive work environments. One emerging HR best practice for team...
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HR Benchmark Report: A Look Back to the 8 Chapters Covering the HR Benchmark Report
In episode #117 of Mission to Grow, the Asure podcast that serves as small business owners' guide to cash, compliance, and the War for Talent, we look back at the 8 chapters of the HR Benchmark Report that VP of HR Compliance and Learning and Development at Asure...
USCIS Revises Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9
As a reminder, in early March 2013, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a revised Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 for use. All employers are required to complete a Form I-9 for each employee hired in the United States....
OSHA Summary Posting
We have almost reached the end of the 2013 OSHA Summary Posting Period. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires certain employers to post the OSHA Form 300A in a conspicuous workplace location from February 1, 2013 through April 30, 2013....
IRS Tax Filing Deadline
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax return filing deadline is April 15, 2013 for 2012 tax forms.
Spotlight on Small Businesses: Small Business Center of Forsyth Tech
Forsyth Tech Small Business Center. Where dreams become realities. Starting and operating a small business is hard work. Forsyth Tech, through its Small Business Centers in Forsyth and Stokes counties provides: Confidential one-on-one counseling Small...
The Affordable Care Act Roadmap
We began our series of posts on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its effect on employers of all sizes with an overview of how penalties will be determined for employers who do not offer “affordable coverage”(see EMPLOYER...
USCIS Revises Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9
Revisions include new user-friendly instructions for completing Form I-9WASHINGTON - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today published a revised Employment Eligibility Verification Form I-9 for use. All employers are required to complete a Form I-9 for...
New I-9 Form
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has issued a revision of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, effective March 8, 2013. New form: http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-9.pdf The new I-9 form, now two pages long, has new data...
Helping Employees find the Greener Pasture: Your Side of the Fence
In the past few years, many companies have had to tighten their budgets in lieu of further downsizing their employee headcount as a result of the economic recession that fell onto the US during the last quarter of 2007. Consequently, organizational strategy focused on...
The Employer Mandate
From an employer’s perspective, this is most likely the most feared aspect of Health Care Reform. In fact, the overwhelming majority of our Health Care Reform-related questions to date in 2013 have covered this topic. So the purpose of this article is to answer some...
HIPAA Regulations Updates
Effective March 26, 2013, updates to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations may impact certain employers. These regulations are based on changes under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act,...
FMLA Notice Poster Update
Effective March 8, 2013, there are changes to the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) requirements. All employers covered by FMLA must display the updated FMLA notice poster, “Employee Rights and Responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act” (WHD...
FMLA Forms Update
Effective March 8, 2013, employers should begin to utilize the updated Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) forms (revised February 2013) released by the Department of Labor (DOL), when applicable. The updated forms are: FMLA Form WH-381 (Notice of Eligibility and Rights...
DOL Final Rule on FMLA Military Amendments
Effective March 8, 2013, the Department of Labor (DOL) published a Final Rule implementing the changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) made by the 2010 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The 2010 NDAA, amended the FMLA's military caregiver leave...
DOL Final Rule on AFCTCA
Effective March 8, 2013, the Department of Labor (DOL) has published a Final Rule implementing the changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) made by the Airline Flight Crew Technical Corrections Act (AFCTCA). The AFCTCA amended the FMLA to incorporate a...
Notice of Exchanges and Subsidies: Delayed
According to the original Health Care Reform Acts, effective March 1, 2013, employers of all sizes were required to provide each newly hired employee with a written notice of the existence of health insurance exchanges and potential subsidies available (Notice of...
COBRA and the Affordable Care Act
It seems there is something in the news daily regarding the many changes that will take place in January 2014 as a result of implementation of the Affordable Care Act. We think you may find it ‘refreshing’ to know about something that will not change…. ...
Employer Shared Responsibility and the Affordable Care Act
Our series of posts on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its effect on employers of all sizes begins with an overview of how penalties will be determined for employers who do not offer “affordable coverage”. This is referred to as Employer Shared Responsibility...
To Pay or Not to Pay Overtime: How Should My Employee Be Classified?
It is important to ensure that jobs are appropriately categorized as either Exempt Status positions or Non-Exempt Status positions. The Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) Exempt Status applies to employees who meet specific exemption criteria delineated in the Act....
Notice of Exchanges and Subsidies: Delayed
A health insurance exchange is basically a virtual health insurance marketplace that is intended to create a more organized and competitive market for buying health insurance. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), states are encouraged, but not...
Unemployment Hearings: Telephone Hearing Tips
We speak with many employers who are shocked after they experience their first unemployment telephone hearing. In general, they report feeling unprepared for the formality of the proceeding, and overwhelmed by the legal procedures to which they were required to...
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