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How to Use the FICA Tip Credit to Avoid Employer Taxes on Tips
Employers are legally required to pay the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) on employee wages and tips. Fortunately, the FICA tip credit can help you decrease your company’s tax burden. By carefully tracking wages throughout the year, you can help your...
How to Use the FICA Tip Credit to Avoid Employer Taxes on Tips
Employers are legally required to pay the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA) on employee wages and tips. Fortunately, the FICA tip credit can help you decrease your company’s tax burden. By carefully tracking wages throughout the year, you can help your...
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What Should You Consider When Selecting Leadership Training Options?
If you don’t provide your workers with leadership and development opportunities, they will look for these opportunities somewhere else. As an employer, this means it’s incredibly important to provide leadership training to your workers. From offering tuition...
ACA Signups Dip
ACA Signups DipThe Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator announced Tuesday that 11.8 million people signed up for 2018 plans on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. The total is roughly 400,000 fewer than last year, a much smaller number than...
How Buddy Punching is Hurting Your Business
Biometric authentication stops this costly form of time fraud Time fraud isn’t always obvious or easy to detect. But when an employee accepts pay for time not actually worked, it’s considered a theft of time from the employer. To improve time tracking accuracy and...
Austin HR has been acquired by Asure Software – Exciting Times and Growth Anticipated !
We are super excited to be joining the Asure Software family! Our acquisition provides us phenomenal resources and talent that allows us to expand in ways we've hoped for and to meet client needs we've been asked to provide. Clients, partners, friends of the company...
Health Care Tops Americans’ Worries for Third Year
Health Care Tops Americans’ Worries for Third YearHealth care is the issue Americans worry about the most, topping the economy as the public’s primary concern for the third year in a row.More than half of adults – 55 percent – in a new National Gallup Survey say they...
Austin HR Gives Back — Announcing Spring Session of Career Transitions
Austin HR's Cofounder, David Hughen, is hosting a 9th year of Career Transitions - a free to the public five week session, designed to help Austin area professionals who are considering their 'next'. This program is made available as a gift to the community. Anyone...
Can Healthcare Be Fixed?
Can Healthcare Be Fixed?Even though the U.S. economy appears to be doing well, Americans are concerned about what Congress will be doing in the next six months about the ACA.The Current StateThe ACA has single handedly tripled the overall cost of health care since it...
Will Small Biz ACA Problems Be Saved by Association Health Plans?
Will Small Biz ACA Problems Be Saved by Association Health Plans?Out of 75 Major Concerns, Small Business Owners RankHealth Insurance Costs as the Number One Problem They FaceBetween 2008 and 2015, the proportion of employers with fewer than 10 employees providing...
Understanding a 401k Retirement Plan for Your Employees
Depending on the age of your employees, they might not be familiar with a 401k retirement plan. What’s more, you might be among the crowd of the uninformed yourself. We can help you understand just what kind of retirement plans are available to your employees. How Did...
Managing Multistate Payroll Taxes for Multistate Healthcare Workers
With the growing need for health care provider mobility, an increasing number of doctors, nurses and physical therapists are crossing state borders to work.But with a multistate workforce comes multistate tax laws, and multi opportunities to find yourself out of...
COBRA Deadlines are Complex, Full of Traps for the Unwary
COBRA requires negotiating a thicket of deadlines. They’re easy to forget and the penalties for missing them can be costly. Wanda Bishop For the beneficiary, usually a departing employee, the risk is losing the health insurance coverage that’s provided under COBRA....
Sarah Yelvington Joins Savers Admin as Specialist in FMLA Administration
Sarah Yelvington, Savers Admin’s new FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) benefits specialist, first learned the ins and outs of FMLA as a front-line supervisor. So she knows the perspective of the clients she’ll be serving. Sarah Yelvington The 25-year-old Florida native...
Savers Admin Introduces FMLA Admin Services
Starting April 1, Savers Admin will begin offering FMLA administration to employers. Debbie Berg FMLA is the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993. It requires employers above a certain size to provide job-protected, unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons,...
Client Profile: City of Winston-Salem HR Department Promotes Service Through Its Own Example to Staff
Personnel management in the public sector is a little different, explained Carmen Caruth, human resources director for the City of Winston-Salem. The positive part, she explained, is that “you really are a public servant. Every day, we meet the needs of the people...
Expecting a Large Payroll? We’ll Help You Avoid ACH Delays
Will your payroll total more than $500,000 or include an individual payment of more than $100,000, such as sometimes happens with year-end bonuses? If so, you should be aware that Savers Admin’s ACH (Automated Clearing House) provider now requires pre-funding. There...
Medicaid Program Tilting Out of Control From ACA Influence
Medicaid Program Tilting Out of Control From ACA InfluenceAt least 21,000 Americans have died waiting to enroll in Medicaid, thanks in part to the expansion of the ACA government healthcare program, based on research reported by the Foundation for Government...
Where The ACA Is Likely Headed
Where The ACA Is Likely HeadedThe tax-reform provision repealing the penalty on those who refuse to participate in ACA has freed millions of Americans to escape a system that exploits them. But while Americans can escape ACA, they still can’t buy insurance in the...
Keeping Up with SUI Taxes
Spring means outdoor weather, baseball... and tax deadlines.Your company pays the Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) to the federal government but most states also require a state unemployment insurance (SUI) tax. The rules for SUI taxes vary from state to state and can...
Update: Life Support for the ACA
Update: Life Support for the ACAThis week (3-20-18) the ACA bill is again up for spending review and is also in a tussle with health insurers. The administration may pad the omnibus spending bill with enough cash to preserve the law through the 2020 election but there...
How to Beat the Broke Budget Blues
Eight tips to strengthen employee financial management Money—it keeps us awake at night and makes us worry about the future. Financial management challenges will strain the majority of your employees at one time or another. A study by Bankrate found only 37% of...
Reminder: EEO-1 Is Due by March 31
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requires certain employers to submit a report categorizing their employees by race or ethnicity, gender, and job category. This demographic survey, called the EEO-1, is due by March 31. All employers with 100 or more...
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