States Evaluate Establishing Their Own Health Insurance MandatesCongressional Repeal of ACA’s Individual Mandate Leaves ANumber of Lawmakers Examining Replacement MeasuresAt least nine states are considering their own versions of a requirement that residents must have...

Update On the Children’s Health Insurance ProgramFunding for a health insurance program for children – the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – arose as an offshoot of discussions in Congress on the budget. The CHIP program expired last September, and a...

What Employers Need To Know About Harassment Training – Gender Identity, Expression & Orientation In 2018Harassment Training Regarding Gender Identity, Expression and Sexual OrientationWhat: Training – which is required regarding prevention of sexual harassment...

Michelle Kingery is Savers Admin’s payroll services director, but she’s known around the office as the tax specialist. She’s the one who files the quarterly and yearly tax statements and she’s the one who’ll research and resolve any notice you receive from state or...

Savers Admin clients may not know the Asure Software name, but they’ve long been using Asure’s products. Asure’s cloud-based software underlies nearly all Savers Admin’s services. The combination of Asure Software and Savers Admin is designed to preserve local service...

Q: I understand we must provide a Form 1095-C for our employees in order to remain in compliance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). What is the due date for these forms? It’s been a bit of a moving target for 2017, but the final dates have now been released (IRS...

What Employers Need To Know About New Parent LOA In – 2018New Parent Leave Of Absence Act: Effective January 1, 2018, employers with 20 to 49 employees are now required to allow qualified employees to take unpaid leave as much as 12 weeks to bond with a new child.To...

Four ways to bring out the best How can you build a community of collaboration in your organization? It may seem like a daunting task given that recent Gallup numbers show only 32% of U.S. workers are engaged in their work. In fact, workers and experts tend to agree...

What Employers Need To Know About Reproductive Health RightsUpdate #4: Employment Policies – Reproductive Health Rights Because employees have the right of freedom to make their own reproductive health decisions without interference from their employers, this law is...

What Can We Learn from Employers Cutting Back on Telework Programs? Three things you can do to balance company needs with this valued employee benefit Telecommuting and telework programs have been around for decades. Research has demonstrated that remote workers are...

3 ways HR can strengthen harassment prevention efforts  Last year saw a whirlwind of scandal involving sexual harassment, beginning with shocking allegations about movie producer Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of female actresses in his employ, and revelations...

Triple Threat: Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan Rattle Health-Care WorldThree Giants’ Envision Using Technology to Cut Costs & Replace Insurers / Drug-benefit CarriersAmazon.com Inc, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and JPMorgan Chase are involved in a big, big new concept....

Some of the things we do for clients at Savers Admin aren’t immediately apparent. One of those is to reduce the risk of non-compliance. Suppose you have a Flexible Spending Account plan, in which employees can shift before-tax compensation into an account for eligible...

One of the most common mistakes in the world of COBRA is forgetting to send the initial notice, sometimes called the general notice. The mistake is not only common, but also potentially costly, because the noncompliance fee is $110 per day for every day that every...

For 11 days every spring, Winston-Salem becomes a hub of cinema, for the region and the world. Thousands converge here, schedules in hand, to watch a diverse array of more than 150 films from around the world and to interact with the producers who made them. ...

How Tax Reform, Wages, and Benefits Costs May Affect Employer-Employee Relationships  Most companies would agree that the global economy improved in 2017, yet many employees still struggle financially—and have been since the financial meltdown of 2009. As we move...

Do you know someone who is “married to their job”? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average full-time worker logs 8.56 hours per weekday and 5.48 hours per day on weekends. About half of U.S. workers say they routinely put in 50 or more hours a...

What Employers Need To Know About Immigration I-9 Forms – 2018Update #3: What To Do About Immigration I-9 Forms Do not allow any government entity, and specifically DO NOT ALLOW the Customs & Immigration Service, or U.S. Homeland Security to obtain or review your...