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Why Small Business Saturday Matters: Celebrating the Heart of Our Communities & Economy
Small Business Saturday, observed annually on the Saturday following Thanksgiving, is a day dedicated to celebrating and supporting small businesses across the nation. This year, it falls on November 30, 2024. Initiated by American Express in 2010, the event...
Why Small Business Saturday Matters: Celebrating the Heart of Our Communities & Economy
Small Business Saturday, observed annually on the Saturday following Thanksgiving, is a day dedicated to celebrating and supporting small businesses across the nation. This year, it falls on November 30, 2024. Initiated by American Express in 2010, the event...
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How Bystander Intervention Rules Work With Anti-Harassment Laws
For your anti-harassment policy to be effective, it must be more than a written policy. It should incorporate different harassment training programs for managers and employees. To motivate workers to spot and deter harassment, you also need a bystander intervention...
The Overtime Rule has been blocked. What now?
A federal court on Tuesday blocked an Obama administration rule to extend mandatory overtime pay to more than 4 million salaried workers. The rule was set to take effect on December 1. Granting a motion for a nationwide injunction, U.S. District Court Judge Amos...
Keeping HR Managers Sane During the Holiday Season
Halloween is over, meaning you’re scheduling the kids’ next dentist appointments and—if you’re in HR—preparing for the barrage of time off requests headed your way. If you haven’t already, now is the perfect time to start thinking of a game plan, because let’s face...
Employers: You Can Use the Current Form I-9 Through Jan. 21, 2017
An important message from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services: USCIS will publish the revised Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, by Jan. 22, 2017. Employers may continue using Form I-9 dated 03/08/2013 N. through Jan. 21, 2017. By Jan. 22, 2017,...
3 HCM Market Trends That Enable Total Workforce Management
It's said that employees don't work for companies—they work for leaders. Or more specifically, they work for people. Distilled down to its essence, that statement implies that employees are interested in a stimulating and culturally engaging work life. Gone are the...
2016 Year-end Payroll Deadlines Announced
For 2016, the IRS is requiring that Forms W-2 and 1099-MISC be filed by January 31, 2017, which is a month earlier than in prior years. To meet this new deadline, all due dates leading up to it must also be earlier. Savers Admin is committed to meeting this important...
Official Information About ACA – November 2016
Official Information About ACA – November 2016Latest Analysis of 2017 Premiums & insurer Participation Provided by Healthcare.gov & Data Collected From States Running Their Own Exchange WebsitesInsurer Participation in the AFA Health Insurance...
It’s Time for HCM to Change
If you ask 10 different HR managers about their definition of HCM (Human Capital Management), you'll get 10 different answers. This is the result of two things: first, the term HCM has expanded over the last several years to include everything related to general HR...
Health FSA Maximum Increases to $2,600 in 2017
On Tuesday, October 25, 2016, the IRS released Revenue Procedure 2016-55, which included a $50 inflation-adjustment increase on voluntary employee salary reductions for contributions to a Health FSA. For an FSA plan year beginning or renewing on or after January...
Preparing for New Overtime Law
October is here and this year there is more to start preparing for than the holidays. Changes to the overtime provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act are currently scheduled take effect on December 1; therefore, the time to ensure compliance with the law is drawing...
ACA Reporting Vital for Employers
What is ACA Reporting? Congress says that the IRS needs to make sure that employers are either offering affordable, minimum value or essential coverage plans to their full time employees or are paying the penalty tax. The new legislation requires...
Hot-desking – The End of The Road?
Chris Kane - A Workplace ProvocateurHot-Desking is a phrase that scares the living daylights out of a lot of hard pressed office workers. Not only do they have to endure the tedium of lengthy commutes and the endless challenges of day to day office work but for many...
Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors
Executive Order 13706, Establishing Paid Sick Leave for Federal Contractors, requires certain parties that contract with the Federal Government to provide their employees with up to seven days of paid sick leave annually, including paid leave allowing for family care....
Automated Time and Attendance Solutions for the Modern Workplace
Today’s workforce is changing, with millennials now making up the largest percentage of its employees. This creates a bigger need for remote work, hoteling, and other modern human capital management solutions. Modern technology enables communication and collaboration...
EXEMPT OR NON-EXEMPT – “What is the Easiest way to communicate the new overtime rules?” December 1st is just around the corner
Common Questions We're Hearing:Business Owner:I’m trying to think of the easiest way to deal with the new overtime rules. We have employees working in many locations, so I was thinking I could just send a company-wide email telling ALL employees that their overtime...
ACA Compliance – Are You Ready?
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) runs 11,000 pages and is divided into 10 titles. Complying with this landmark law has been challenging for employers, as it contains many wide-ranging provisions that are being phased in through to 2020. Most...
FLSA and the Trucking Industry
With the Fair Labor Standards Act’s new overtime regulation going into effect starting Dec. 1, 2016, companies across the U.S. are taking steps to ensure compliance. Among the many industries impacted by these changes, truckers face new challenges set forth by...
Diversity – A Competitive Advantage
Recently, Austin HR was approached by a reporter from the Austin American-Statesman's online 512tech site to provide a perspective on the topic of diversity as a strategic advantage. The thrust of the article was that more and more companies are embracing the...
Increase Security with Facial Recognition Technology
Managing time and attendance for your company can be challenging—especially when you have more than a few employees. From punch cards to time clocks, employees have tried almost everything to ensure their employees’ workdays are accurately and efficiently recorded....
New Overtime Rule
The changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime provision have caused concern among many of our clients. Questions range from what the changes actually are, who they apply to, and how to prepare for them. We have compiled answers to a few high...
EEO1 – New Federal Law Alert
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that it will require employers with 100 or more employees to submit summary pay data and total hours worked for the year as part of the annual EEO-1 report.The first report, capturing data from 2017,...
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