Payroll

ACA roundup

06/20/2016

The Department of Health and Human Services has released its final notice of benefit and payment parameters for the 2017 plan year and the Department of Labor has finalized changes to the summary of benefits and coverage template.

School’s out, hire carefully

06/16/2016

There’s a lot to know before you hire a teen for a summer job.

High Court OKs statistical analyses to figure unpaid time

06/13/2016

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that employees at a meat processing plant may use statistical analyses to prove that they weren’t paid for their changing time in class action lawsuits brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Pay secrecy policies may no longer stand up

06/09/2016

States and the federal government are cracking down on payroll confidentiality policies.

Bonus time is headache time for the professionals in payroll

06/01/2016

If you’ll be paying nonexempts an annual bonus this month, and they’ve worked overtime during the year, you need to go back over the entire year, figure those bonuses into their regular rates of pay and then refigure their overtime rates. Let’s do the math.

You provide vacation. Why don’t employees take it?

06/01/2016

Memorial Day—the unofficial start to summer—just whizzed by, which means that employees will be scrambling to take vacation days, extending long weekends and otherwise causing havoc with scheduling. Or maybe not.

June 2016: Employer’s business tax calendar

05/31/2016

Here’s your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.

Special analysis: Severance policies may be ERISA plans

05/30/2016

As if you didn’t have enough to worry about with withholding and reporting taxes, federal appellate courts have recently chimed in on whether and how ERISA, the federal benefits law, applies to severance pay policies.

ICE gives advice for internal Form I-9 audits

05/26/2016

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE for short, has provided guidance for employers that want to conduct internal audits of their I-9 forms.

Payday lenders continue to cause payroll headaches

05/24/2016

Payday lenders offer low-income employees a tantalizing proposition: Here’s the money you need right now. They don’t mention the usurious interest rates.