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State-by-State Minimum Wage Changes for 2025: What You Need To Know
As a small business owner, it’s essential to stay up to date on changes to HR laws. Depending on what state you run your business in, your payroll may need to adjust for a minimum wage hike in 2025. Additionally, many municipalities have specific minimum wages. When...
State-by-State Minimum Wage Changes for 2025: What You Need To Know
As a small business owner, it’s essential to stay up to date on changes to HR laws. Depending on what state you run your business in, your payroll may need to adjust for a minimum wage hike in 2025. Additionally, many municipalities have specific minimum wages. When...
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5 Changing HR Laws To Prepare for in the New Year
With 2025 about to arrive, small businesses should take a moment to make sure they’re ready for some HR changes that are about to happen. While some of these changes have been known about for months, other changes involve new developments. Because penalties for...
ACA Repeal/Replace Timeline
ACA Repeal/Replace TimelineThe Senate Republican health care bill would guarantee immediate assistance for insurance markets that are struggling in many states. Yet overall it would do the same thing as its House counterpart: less federal money for health insurance...
HR Software for Benefits Administration & Workforce Management
How Do Your Most Important Benefit Plans Align With Employees' Expectations? The Role of Benefits in Retaining Top Talent It is undisputed that to be an employer of choice in today’s competitive talent market, having a strong benefits plan is essential. In a recent...
TelePayroll’s Affordable Background Screening Solutions
Asure Software Affordable Background Screening SolutionsAsure Software Screening Services Turn A Negative Into a PositiveAdvanced Technology and Proven Customer Service Provides Peace of Mind. TelePayroll has partnered with National Crime Search, Inc. (NCS), a...
TelePayroll Timekeeping Benefits
TelePayroll Timekeeping BenefitsTelePayroll’s Time-Collecting Options Simplify Your Time & Attendance TrackingTracking employee hours and attendance is a complicated task no matter how many employees are on your team. With new rules and government regulations, the...
Empower Your Staff with Smarter HR
To better engage staff members, what should human resource managers include in their empowerment initiatives? Over the last decade, businesses have certainly kept their employees smiling. According to recent figures from the Society for Human Resource Management...
Insurance Companies Sharpen Their Pencils on Costs for 2018
Insurance Companies Sharpen Their Pencils on Costs for 2018Insurers appear to be leaning toward cost increases in the proposed new ACA proposed bill. Based on regulatory filings in two states – Virginia and Maryland – saw several insurers seeking major premium...
Working Interviews and Alternatives
Few things are more frustrating for employers than finding out that a new hire oversold their knowledge, skills, and abilities. The employee looked great on paper and appeared confident and competent in the interview, but when it came to doing the basic duties of the...
BREAKING NEWS Obamacare Repeal Passes the House
BREAKING NEWS Obamacare Repeal Passes the HouseHouse Republicans on Thursday narrowly approved a sweeping health care bill aimed at fulfilling an overturn of ObamaCare. The revised American Health Care Act passed on a 217-213 vote.The passage marked Republicans’...
One of our employees has chicken pox. Is it okay to tell our other employees about this condition?
We recommend informing employees that they may have been exposed to chicken pox, but would not reveal the name of the employee who has the condition. We would also limit the announcement to those employees who have a need to know, i.e., those who may have come into...
How Time & Attendance Tools Help Work Life Balance
How Flexible Time and Attendance Policies Became a Critical Employee Benefit The Evolution of Work-life BalanceWork-life balance has been an important HCM topic for decades. The term was first used in the UK in the 1970’s to describe the balance between an...
How to Make the Most of the SHRM Conference
SHRM17: How to Make the Most of Your Experience SHRM’s Annual Conference & Exposition means something different to every attendee. For many, it’s all about earning recertification credits, while for others the main attraction is the opportunity to travel to...
Why Secure Workforce Management Software is Vital
Ransomware Attacks Are a Wake-up Call for Cybersecurity in HR The recent wave of global “WannaCry” ransomware attacks were a shock to anyone who depends on their computer in daily life—which is now virtually everyone. For HR professionals charged with safeguarding...
Tracking Time & Attendance in Mobile Work Environments
The Growth of the Mobile Workforce Studies project that by 2020 mobile workers will make up nearly 75% of the US workforce. While technology has made a mobile workforce possible, a significant driver of accelerated growth is the need for employers to be competitive in...
We want to hire an administrative assistant. Can we classify this person as an independent contractor during a 90-day try-out period and then, if they work out, hire them as a full-time employee at the end of the 90 days?
The short answer is no.It's highly unlikely that an administrative assistant would meet the criteria for classification as an independent contractor. The IRS and the U.S. Department of Labor, along with state agencies, have specific criteria for determining who is an...
Four Advantages of Outsourcing Payroll
In general, businesses manage their payroll duties one of two ways, either handling payroll processing and its associated duties in-house, or outsourcing these activities through a third party like a CPA or payroll processing company. Although many businesses choose...
ACA Update – Three Key Takeaways
ACA Update – Three Key TakeawaysThe Revised House Republican health bill follows a philosophy that “Insurers and markets, rather than government” are empowered to find ways to provide affordable health insurance to a broad set of Americans.The bill that passed this...
The Real Costs of Employee Turnover—And How to Measure Them
Employee turnover is expensive—more so than you might think. According to a recent survey by the Society for Human Resource Management, the average cost-per-hire is $4,129. However, turnover costs can vary depending on the length of time it takes to fill the role, the...
Wage Theft Prevention Act (WTPA) – New York
Section 195 of the New York Labor Law, requires all employers, other than governmental agencies, to give employees at the time of hire (before work is performed), notice of the following: The employee's rate or rates of pay The overtime rate of pay, if the employee is...
A Minor Technicality On Pay Stub Can Cost Employers Big Bucks
A Minor Technicality On Pay Stub Can Cost Employers Big BucksToday’s business can be susceptible to lawsuits, big fines, and headaches in areas they take for granted.1- Imagine being sued by every single one of the employees who worked for you over the past four years...
Proposed Workers Comp Insurance Change in July
Proposed Workers Comp Insurance Change in JulyThe California Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is filing a proposed rate reduction for California workers’ compensation insurance "pure premium" rates on average to become effective July 1, 2017.These are to...
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