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A Seven Point Checklist for HR compliance

Is Your Organization Playing by the Rules? Avoid fines and optimize your team’s productivity by following the legally established norms of employer/employee relations. Here is a step-by-step guide to doing just that: 1. Get Registered with both the IRS and your state/local revenue agencies to enable payments of your payroll taxes. Which brings us to our next point… 2. Withhold taxes accurately. After all, under-withholding could leave you in...

Is Your Company Data Safe and Secure?

Ransomware — a malicious cyber attack in which criminals hijack your personal data and threaten to publish and/or permanently delete it unless a fee is paid — is skyrocketing in popularity. In 2015, roughly 3.8 million ransomware attacks were reported globally. 2016 saw more than 638 million attacks. (In other words, an average week in 2016 saw more than triple the ransomware attacks that occurred in the entire year...

70 Percent of Americans Admit to Going into Work Sick

The only thing worse than an employee with no motivation? An employee with too much motivation! As the title of this article suggests, an estimated 70 percent of the American workforce has gone into work sick at one point or another. More specifically, about 80% of the blue collar workforce and about 40% of the white collar workforce admit to this practice, according to a study published in Alternet.org....

5 Traits All Successful Small Business Owners Have in Common

It’s not easy being a small business owner. At the end of the day, all of the weight of your business falls onto you. However, if you possess these five traits all small business owners have in common, you can handle any challenge. 1. Passion- At the heart of every successful business, there is passion. If you are not absolutely in love with what you do, you won’t be...

IRS Fine on Public School Illustrates Importance of Payroll

An ongoing public dispute regarding payroll tax fines appears to be coming to an end–but it hasn’t been pretty. In February, 2016, the Three Forks school district voted to pay roughly $37,000 in fines related to a routine audit that revealed errors in the school’s payroll reporting. This $37,000 actually represents a significant discount, as the original fine was nearly $50,000! Despite this generous “discount” that the school district...

Automate your Timekeeping with Precise Payroll

The days of punching in and punching out on a timecard have come and gone.  Automated, electronic timekeeping is now the norm—and we’re running down our top three reasons why. #3: The times are a-changin’ Like almost every other form of paper-based record keeping, timecard based timekeeping is slow, inefficient and prone to errors.  In short, the computer has replaced the pen in most professional settings, and electronic timekeeping...