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How to Prevent Direct Deposit Fraud: Best Practices for Employees and Employers
Preventing direct deposit fraud requires a proactive approach from both employers and employees. By implementing strong security measures and fostering awareness, you can significantly reduce the risk of payroll fraud. Best Practices for Employees Direct deposit...
How to Prevent Direct Deposit Fraud: Best Practices for Employees and Employers
Preventing direct deposit fraud requires a proactive approach from both employers and employees. By implementing strong security measures and fostering awareness, you can significantly reduce the risk of payroll fraud. Best Practices for Employees Direct deposit...
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How On-Demand Pay Helps You Attract and Retain Hourly Workers
In today’s fast-moving labor market, attracting and keeping reliable hourly workers is one of the biggest challenges facing small businesses. Whether you run a restaurant, retail store, warehouse, or healthcare facility, the struggle is the same: high turnover, missed...
Guide to Wage Garnishment for Small Businesses
In the United States, more than one out of 100 workers is subject to wage garnishment at any point in time. As a business owner, it is your responsibility to respond to garnishment notices if you are ordered to garnish the employee’s wages. To ensure your company's...
What Is Anti-Harassment Compliance Training?
In the United States, there have been a number of different laws that have explicitly forbid different types of harassment and discrimination. For example, the Americans With Disabilities Act protects disabled workers from discrimination in employment and other parts...
Garnishment: What Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know to Protect Themselves
“What the CCPA wants to do is make sure that not too much is being taken out from a debtor's paycheck each week, because that then just results in more financial issues and more strains.” In episode #124 of Mission to Grow, the Asure podcast that serves as small...
How Your Hiring Process Impacts Your Employment Brand
As an employer, your hiring process serves as the first impression applicants have about your business. It plays a key role in forming your brand image in the applicant’s mind. If you want to navigate a labor shortage and bring in top talent, you need to learn...
The 6 States That Mandate Anti-Harassment Training
Under federal law, workplaces aren’t allowed to discriminate against applicants and employees during their hiring and employment practices. However, specific states take these laws further with mandated anti-harassment training. For example, California requires...
Federal Contractors Should Prepare for 2025 Minimum Wage Hike as Legal Challenges Unfold
By Justin R. Barnes & Laura A. Mitchell, Jackson Lewis, Attorneys at Law Federal contractors may need to be prepared to increase pay for employees working on, or in connection with, covered federal government contracts. The hourly minimum wage for employees...
What Is Employer Branding?
Today, 86% of HR professionals report that recruiting employees is becoming more like marketing. The same number of workers say they research a business before they consider turning in their application. In today’s job market, companies can’t just post a generic job...
Understanding How Employee Life Cycle Impacts Your Productivity
As a small business owner, you need to understand how an employee’s productivity lifecycle works. From the start of an employee’s career to its end, the ratio of labor cost to profit significantly changes. By understanding how this lifecycle shifts and how to track...
Building An Employer Brand: How Small Businesses Can Use Marketing to Attract and Retain The Best Talent
“People distrust perfection. The more authenticity you can show, the more people connect with your brand. No one wants to do it themselves—they want to see the care and quality you put into your work, and that's what attracts them to you.” In episode #122 of Mission...
Why Career Journey Support Can Help You Compete for Talented Workers
Are you helping workers achieve their career goals? If not, you could be missing out on a powerful HR tool. A career journey isn’t a path that contains a defined end. It includes rich learning experiences, detours, and opportunities for growth. Beyond enriching the...
Practical Steps for Building an EEO Policy
If you want to attract top talent in a tight labor market, you should strive to become an equal employment opportunity (EEO) employer. To be an EEO employer, you must treat applicants and employees equally. Your company cannot discriminate based on the individual’s...
Top Methods for Differentiating Your Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
In a tight labor market, you need to do everything you can to stand out from the crowd. One way to differentiate your employer image. Your employee value proposition (EVP) helps you stand out to potential applicants, allowing you to attract more and better workers to...
HR Compliance Update | November 11, 2024
FEDERAL UPDATES Federal Contractors: Disclosure of 2021 Data. OFCCP published a notice in the Federal Register notifying federal contractors of two new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to disclose contractors’ EEO-1 Type 2 Reports for 2021. The requests also...
OSHA Standards and Manufacturers: Key Post-Loper Considerations
By Pamela B. Linberg & Ashton P. Hoffman, Jackson Lewis, Attorneys at Law. The U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright decision overturned the decades-old Chevron doctrine of judicial deference to a federal agency’s interpretation of an ambiguous statute. This change in...
What Type of Anti-Harassment Training Should Managers Have?
While managers and employees should both be given anti-harassment training, the type of training they receive should be different. Managers are responsible for creating a safe, supportive working environment. They must be trained on how to recognize harassment and...
Harassment Training: What Every Small Business Owner Needs to Know to Protect Their Employees
“I'll make it really easy. Everybody has to do it or should do it to protect their company.” In episode #123 of Mission to Grow, the Asure podcast that serves as small business owners’ guide to cash, compliance, and the War for Talent, VP of HR Compliance and Learning...
10 Best Practices for Building a Recruitment Brand
If you’re struggling to drive traffic from job sites, your recruitment brand may be to blame. As an employer, you aren’t just branding and marketing a product to your customers. You’re also marketing your business to potential applicants. By building the right...
The Dangers of Overstaffing
Because of the war for talent, there is a shortage of skilled workers for many positions. In response to the labor shortage, some companies deliberately try to hire extra workers to ensure they have enough labor. However, there is also a danger of overstaffing. If you...
Why Labor Is Directly Correlated to Your Profitability
As a small business owner, your direct and indirect labor are directly related to how profitable your company is. If you aren’t efficiently using labor, you won’t be able to produce the goods and services your clients need. To learn more about the connection between...
Navigating Growth Plateaus as a Small Business: Crossing the Black Hole
Many businesses focus solely on revenue growth, but this approach carries many downsides. Growing revenue only matters if it helps you add to your company’s profits. Sometimes, companies increase revenue without considering the added labor costs incurred. Once...
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