Compensation & Benefits

Oil firms must pay millions for required pre-work meetings

11/03/2014

Oil and natural gas giant Shell Oil and refiner Motiva have agreed to pay $4,460,764 to 2,677 workers after the U.S. Department of Labor determined the companies failed to pay workers for required pre-shift meetings.

Form 1099-MISC news you can use

11/03/2014

Completing Forms W-2/W-3, and getting them into the hands of employees and the Social Security Administration on time, is tough enough. Your stress is further compounded if you also handle Forms 1099-MISC for the company’s independent contractors. Here’s what you need to know for the upcoming 1099 filing season.

How should we pay for weekend travel time?

10/31/2014

Q. How do you pay hourly employees who are traveling on a day that’s not considered a workday, like Saturday or Sunday? What if they normally have a 10-minute commute to the office but instead they have to go to the airport, which is an hour away?

November 2014: Employer’s business tax calendar

10/31/2014

This is your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.

PTO banks go mainstream

10/31/2014

Use of paid time off leave banks has increased almost 50% in the last dozen years.

Walmart drops health benefits for part-timers

10/30/2014

Walmart has announced it will stop offering health insurance benefits next year to part-time employees working less than 30 hours per week—about 5% of the retail giant’s workers.

Are there limits to direct deposit?

10/30/2014

Q: A new employee wants us to direct deposit her paychecks into a business bank account. She’s provided proof that she’s the signatory on the account. Is this OK?

HR lexicon: What’s a pre-cation?

10/29/2014

Possibly the greatest perk you’ve never heard of: paid vacation that new hires can take before reporting for work at their new organizations.

What’s the procedure for handling a worker’s comp claim when an employee is injured?

10/27/2014

Q. As a California employer, what should I do if one of my employees gets injured on the job or has a work-related illness?

Even though we have no employees, do we still need workers’ comp coverage?

10/27/2014

Q. My daughter and I are the sole owners of our business. Are we required to obtain workers’ compensation coverage even though we have no employees?