Alice Gilman is an employment tax compliance expert with more than 25 years of experience and is the editor of Business Management Daily's Payroll Legal Alert. She is a graduate of the State University of New York at Albany and received her law degree from the University of Bridgeport.
Locking down the definition of an independent contractor can be challenging because the definition bounces around depending on the federal agency. Decisions issued by...
Hiring remains challenging this summer, especially if you’re in the hospitality industry. If you step outside your comfort zone and hire kids from disadvantaged...
Direct deposit works through the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network—you instruct your bank to prepare a payroll file and it disburses employees’ pay...
While fortunately a rare circumstance, dealing with payroll for a recently deceased employee can be tricky. What pay is taxable? What do you do with their final...
Health/tracking apps downloaded to smartphones have confounded employees and employers since the Supreme Court issued its 2022 Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v....
The National Labor Relations Board doesn’t like overbroad things. In April, it invalidated an employer’s plan requiring employees to sign nondisparagement agreements...
The labor market is still tight and employers are having a rough time hiring. You might be tempted to hire 14- and 15-year-olds this summer to work jobs older teens and...
The NBA finals started last week—the Denver Nuggets vs. the Miami Heat. Basketball is our second favorite sport, mostly because you don’t need to know all the rules...
How well do you get along with your spouse or ex? Or boss? Or the company’s president? It’s not an idle question. The Supreme Court has settled the question of...
You can’t code an employee’s pay and deductions properly without an employee pay profile, said Jonathan Stone, managing director of KPMG LLP. Stone shared his...
Back in the dim mists of antiquity, when most people watched broadcast TV, our favorite part of Mission: Impossible was at the end, when the good guys peeled off their...
The pandemic officially ended last Thursday. What a relief. But lots of things linger in its wake. More people are feeling lonely, stressed, and depressed. And while...
Data brokers are already in your workplace, surveilling your employees and selling what they gather, whether you know it or not. And we’re not the only one who thinks...
Clothes do not make the man or woman, and job titles do not turn a nonexempt employee into an exempt employee. The Fair Labor Standards Act has been consistent over its...
Everyone, including us, had to take a crash course in HIPAA’s privacy provisions after the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health...
The PUMP Act, enacted as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, extends FLSA-protected unpaid lactation breaks to nursing mothers who are exempt employees....
The Department of Labor may soon release proposed regulations raising the salary employees must earn to remain exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act.
The current...
Constructive receipt is a tax timing rule requiring you to withhold taxes when employees’ pay is set aside for them to access without restriction, regardless of when...
When Silicon Valley Bank in California and the Signature Bank in New York failed last week, employers with accounts at those banks began to fret they wouldn’t be able...
The rules for reimbursing employees’ travel expenses seem straightforward enough—employees account to you for their expenses, submit receipts for those expenses, and...
