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Be ready to reimburse teleworker expenses

09/10/2020
Employers may need to pay employees back for some infrastructure improvements they had to make so they could work remotely.

Consider hazard pay to fill essential positions

09/03/2020
Once upon a time, hazard pay was an incentive to entice workers to perform jobs that were themselves dangerous—think firefighting or defusing explosives. In the coronavirus pandemic era, hazard pay is being granted to delivery drivers, grocery cashiers and many other jobs now deemed “essential.”

Don’t let PTO policy backfire when employees terminate

07/01/2020
If you have a use-it-or-lose-it PTO or vacation policy, states’ wage payment laws may require you to cash out the entire bank if employees terminate.

August 2020: Employer’s business tax calendar

06/30/2020
Here’s your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.

In the Payroll Mailbag: July ’20

06/18/2020
Beware the trap with deferrals … Can a missed deferred deposit be made up?

No day camp…no problem: Paid FMLA leave may still apply

06/18/2020
According to the Department of Labor, paid FMLA leave isn’t available after schools close for the summer, because that’s not a coronavirus-related reason. But, up to 12 weeks of paid FMLA leave may be available, if camps or other programs in which employees’ kids were enrolled didn’t open due to the coronavirus.

High Court rules IRCA doesn’t override state W-4 laws

06/18/2020
Almost all states now use their own W-4s. And some of those states make it a crime to use a false identity when filling out a state W-4. Those laws don’t interfere with the Immigration Reform and Control Act when employees use the same false information on I-9s and state W-4s, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled.

Biometrics: I spy with my little eye

06/01/2020
You should take this opportunity to reexamine your timekeeping system. Their role has evolved way beyond preventing buddy-punching.

July 2020: Employer’s business tax calendar

05/31/2020
Here’s your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.

In the Payroll Mailbag: June ’20

05/20/2020
Which employer-paid benefits are taxable? … Are covid-19 bonuses included in the regular rate?