Every Word Counts when Crafting Your Employee Handbook A fundamental requirement of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is that employers must not “interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in the exercise of their rights” to organize into labor unions, collectively

Get Out There and Vote (If You Can) As you may have noticed, it’s election time again in America. People are wearing shirts for their favorite candidates, signs are outnumbering yard flamingos, and Facebook is a battlefield of comments and

 Good News in the New Year: IRS Extends ACA Filing Deadlines Employers and other organizations got some good news from the IRS for the start of the new year. The tax agency announced that it’s extending the due dates for filing

Tap the Brakes: Cadillac Tax Delayed, But Challenges Remain As 2015 was winding down, Congress pushed back the effective date of the “Cadillac tax” two years. The much-debated provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will now take effect on

  Do After-Hours Communications Qualify for Overtime Pay? Crucially, the plaintiffs charged, they “in fact received many such communications and performed work using their BlackBerry devices while off duty.” It wasn’t a case of seeking overtime pay just for being

If your employees regularly receive tips, it is important to comply with the withholding requirements and pay your company’s fair share of employment taxes. Expensive penalties can be assessed on both employers and employees if the tip reporting rules are not followed.

Give Your Employee Handbook a Facelift There are two ways to look at employee handbooks: 1. As a detailed document whose primary function is to set clear boundaries around employee behavior to provide legal support for any adverse action you might need

When it comes to the new year, it is common to see social media fill up with people claiming that it is a “New Year, New Me”, but how many really take that to heart? When it comes to owning a company, a new year, new me mentality can mean more than empty promises to eat less donuts. Planning on rejuvenating your company can lead to new new forms of income, along with increasing income from current endeavors.

With all the talk about healthcare, Obamacare, the ACA act, and medicaid, it may be easy for some people to confuse just what each one does. For those who are not up to date on the topic of universal healthcare, Obamacare, or it’s more official name, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), is designed to help people get healthcare at an affordable price.

A person has to do what it takes to survive, unless you own a business of course. Then you have to do what it takes for you to survive along with your employees. How do you make sure that you have enough to make it while also making sure your employees are taken care of? It’s a difficult system to create with payroll being such a regular expense with so many requirements surrounding it.