Colorado Secure Savings Program: What It Means for Businesses
The Colorado Secure Savings program provides retirement options to employees even if they change or leave their jobs. Learn more about its effect on small businesses.
The Colorado Secure Savings program provides retirement options to employees even if they change or leave their jobs. Learn more about its effect on small businesses. Many companies offer hybrid workplaces to allow for better work-life balance for employees. Learn what to include in your company's hybrid work policy. What's a good employee attrition rate? Learn more about what's normal, what affects employees, attrition, and how to get your employees to stay longer.
Colorado Secure Savings Program: What It Means for Businesses
Hybrid Work Policy: 5 Guidelines for the Modern Workplace
Employee Attrition Rate: What's Normal, What's Not, & How to Improve
The Department of Labor doubled the salary threshold for employees to qualify as exempt. More than 4 million workers are expected to lose their exempt status. Employees covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will be entitled to overtime pay.
The Department of Labor doubled the salary threshold for employees to qualify as exempt (not entitled to overtime) from $23,000 to more than $47,000 a year. Employees covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will be entitled to overtime pay. All employers must comply by December 1, 2016.
Does your health impact your work performance? According to studies, healthier employees are more productive in general. Clean eating and moderate exercise create added benefits, not only to one’s overall personal life, but contribute to higher productivity in the workplace as well. Not only does a healthy lifestyle add more energy to all facets of your life, but it can also decrease overall absences from the workplace caused by injury and illness.
The Department of Labor just published revisions to the overtime exemption regulations that are expected to cause more than 4 million workers to lose their exempt status. Department of Labor is more than doubling the minimum weekly salary level for employees to be exempt from FLSA overtime under the “White Collar” exemptions.
In the payroll business, we see many versions of time off policies – it’s rare to have two that are the same. However, one thing we do see with regularity is business owners tying themselves in knots trying to implement a policy that they think is fair for everyone. What they end up doing is creating a lot of work for themselves in the process. Here are some suggestions to keep in mind while creating or revising your time-off policy.
In the business world, your relationship with time can really make a statement about who you are, what your company represents, and is a reflection on the relationship with your company. Being punctual or even early shows that you are a professional who takes business seriously and strives to create a healthy interaction with whomever you interact with.
Working remotely/virtually from either a home office, temporary office, or somewhere outside of your place of business can sound very appealing. You have plenty of time to get work done without distractions from your fellow coworkers, no constant hovering from superiors, and if you feel like it, you can grab your laptop and take off to someplace else- you’re free! But is this particular work style environment fit for everyone?
You have a business to run and we want to give you the opportunity to really focus on your business and your customers without having to worry about cutting checks, stressing over HR issues, or any other assortment of clerical and administrative tasks that can easily overwhelm and consume you.
Shopping local and spending your dollars at small businesses in your community is an incredible way to show your support for those in your community.
Regardless of industry, specialty, size, or any other label or relation you use when describing your business; your business is really defined by your workforce. The people who work for your organization, fueling the engine of your business, are really what your business is made of.
Your new prospective employee looks great on paper and crushed it throughout the interview process. References can say what the interviewee wants them to say. Items can be doctored, and resumes can be fabricated. How can you tell who is really working for you? What’s their history and what has really happened in their past work experience?
Paycards Lead a Payment Revolution Study By Global Cash Card And The Center For Generational Kinetics The Top 10 Research Study Findings:
Successful companies have strength in leadership.
Are you already using direct deposit to pay your employees? Good. Another option you may also consider are pay cards. Simple to set up, convenient for employers and employees, and a great solution for any industry.
There are over 32 Million Self-Employed individuals in the US which presents a huge need for proper 1099 management among payroll service bureaus across the country.
One of the most important aspects of a business professional’s portfolio, besides their educational pedigree and where they have worked, is if they have volunteered their time for a cause or organization.
Business Plan: A business plan is a formal document which describes the business, details the goals of the business, and describes how those goals will be attained as well as the risk factors that may present problems.
As 2016 approaches, it is time to make sure you are in compliance with current state and federal labor law posting regulations! For the New Year, the federal government has announced an increase in the budget allocated for the Department of Labor. As part of this, millions of dollars will be put toward supporting efforts for employment laws and for securing safe and healthy workplaces.
A well written and comprehensive employee handbook will benefit both the employee and the employer. Employees will gain a better sense of the organization and employers will know that they have made the policies and expectations clear to its workers. Here are some of the specific reasons that every employer should create and maintain an accurate handbook:
HR can be a complicated topic for small business owners who aren’t HR experts, and lets be honest, most aren’t. So what benefits exist for hiring an HR solution? At what point do you need to get an HR solution?
Dealing with HR issues can frequently be a hassle, especially with having to keep up with all of the various changes in wage and hour, disability, discrimination and employee leave laws, let alone having to deal with employer obligations under the Affordable Care Act and just managing your company’s compensation and benefits programs.
We all know they’re required in your place of business, but what are some of the other requirements that you may not know? Here are some of the most frequently asked questions regarding labor law posters.
