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Do you have W9 information for all of your vendors?
Year-end is just around the corner. One of the early steps you can take to ease preparation for your year-end taxes is to ensure that your Vendor W9 information is in order. This article will give you good guidelines for a proper W9 information review. Many business...
USCIS Issues new I-9 Forms Effective September 18th
The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services have issued a new I-9 Form that employers will be required to use effective September 18, 2017. The new form is used by HR and anyone in the position of hiring new employees, to verify employment eligibility. The current rules...
OSHA Recordkeeping and Compliance
If you have 10 or more employees and are not in an exempt industry, you are responsible for logging any work-related injuries or accidents when they occur during the year, as well as summarizing the incidents annually. If your employees had any injuries that fall...
Juli Bacon Featured in Building Women publication
Building Women: NAHB PWB 2017 National Chair: Juli Bacon “I never believed in the glass ceiling. You can do whatever you want. Don’t put limits on yourself. If you want to build a house, build a house. Ask lots of questions. If you want help, ask somebody.” ...
Wellness Program Employer Obligations
Employers these days may have found that just offering basic medical, dental and vision benefits aren’t enough to attract and keep talent. Many look to offer additional incentives for employee wellness and health. Value adds such as wellness programs, fitness, onsite...
Absences due to Protests
Wednesday March 8th was International Women’s Day, a day officially recognized every year to commemorate women’s rights globally. This year, an additional tag was added to this occasion called A Day without Women, an organized strike day encouraging women across the...
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New Payroll Tax Holiday Available September 1 – December 31, 2020
New IRS Guidance related to employee payroll tax collection has been issued to allow for deferral of payroll taxes through the end of 2020 in an effort to provide income relief to those employees who have been impacted by COVID-19. Notice 2020-65 was issued on...
New FMLA Forms Available
If you’re an employer of 50 or more, you have likely had the experience of handling an employee’s leave of absence under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and know just how many forms are required to process and authorize an employee’s FML leave. Just recently,...
Understanding the Ins and Outs of Compensation Reviews
Have you ever been asked by an employee how you decided what they would make? Or perhaps tried to identify whether a role should be classified as Exempt or Non-Exempt? Or created a new position and had to determine how much to pay the new employee? One of the most...
ALERT: Fraud against small businesses on the rise!
ALERT: Fraud against small businesses on the rise! During the general kerfuffle that has arisen around COVID-19, many small businesses have been hit hard by fraudsters. One of the latest areas that we have seen a dramatic uptick in fraud has to do with Direct Deposit....
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