Unemployment insurance Unemployment insurance benefits are provided through the Federal-State Unemployment Insurance Program, which delivers short-term benefit payments to employees who lose their jobs through…
If your remote employees live in the state where your business is located, you must follow federal employment laws plus your state’s employment rules. But…
We live in a fast-paced society where people are forever on the go. There’s hardly ample time for work-life balance, let alone continuing education. Yet…
A lookback period is the length of time that the IRS uses to measure the amount of taxes paid by an employer. The lookback period…
At worst, discussing salary at work is akin to opening a Pandora’s box. It can, for example, cause tension between employees, resentment toward management and…
Under Title I of the ADA, employers with 15 or more employees must provide reasonable accommodations to eligible disabled employees — unless the accommodations will…
On March 7, the Department of Labor released a proposed rule that would raise the so-called salary-level threshold for white-collar exemptions to $35,308 per year…
There are two instances in which an employee may present you with their Social Security card: for payroll purposes and for I-9 purposes. But, while…
In 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor published an opinion letter, clarifying whether nonexempt hourly employees should be paid for travel time. This is often…
March Madness is upon us, and there is no avoiding it. Selection Sunday, when the NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Committee announces which 68 teams…
Hurricanes, storms, tornadoes, blizzards, floods and other weather-related disasters can cause inclement weather closures. But even if one of these calamities causes your business to…
According to the Society for Human Resource Management, an employer brand “is essentially what the organization communicates as its identity to both potential and current…