Texas is taking legal action to challenge the new HIPAA privacy rule and the original HIPAA privacy regulations from 2000. They specifically want to invalidate the parts...
Employees need to designate their pretax deductions before the start of the plan year. This means changes for the 2025 calendar-year plans need to be made very soon.
The IRS has begun sending out letters to employers who it believes wrongly claimed the employee retention credit. Some of these letters contain significant errors.
Soft skills are now a top priority for employers in today's rapidly evolving technological landscape. These skills are highly valued for their universal applicability,...
Hiring Teens for the Summer
Summer is a popular time for businesses to hire teenagers for seasonal work. As many of these young workers may be taking on their first...
Maintaining payroll compliance is a must for accounting departments, but it’s often easier said than done. That’s especially true whenever new changes come...
How do you keep track of your employees’ work hours? If you’re like most organizations, your employees record the number of hours they worked on a timesheet. In...
Can your on-the-go employees access your time clock app from their mobile devices?
If the answer is yes, there could be quite a bit of time theft occurring right under...
Getting a promotion is an exciting event for employees. Their hard work has paid off and they are being recognized by their employer. However, some of that excitement is...
We’ve covered the taxability of gift cards before, and the law hasn’t changed—with three exceptions, the face value of gift cards is always taxable because...
We started our W-2 series feature earlier this year, giving us more time to explore W-2 issues, which, based on questions we’ve been encountering, are beginning to...
I know there are plenty of possible strategies for your business, and you might be thinking I am suggesting adding a new one. But for now, I am not (necessarily)...
HR administration is an essential component of running a small business, but it’s often one of the most challenging to manage in the early stages of small business or...
The IRS has kept its promise to provide relief to employers that filed Forms 941-X to claim the pandemic-era employee retention credit for which they aren’t eligible....
The FBI and the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency recently issued an alert to critical infrastructure companies warning them of a new ransomware...
The IRS is so serious about IRIS, its new simplified e-filing platform for information returns, that it’s convening monthly working group meetings over the internet....
Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month. With many high-profile cybersecurity attacks in the news in recent years, it’s worth paying extra attention to the topic....
The debate over on-demand pay continues to be waged—is it a loan or a wage advance? The answer matters, because state wage payment laws control the deductions you can...
Proposed regulations raising the salary employees must earn to be exempt from overtime were published in last Friday’s Federal Register. You have until Nov. 7 to...
The saga of 401(k) catch-up contributions under SECURE 2.0 is well known. Beginning with catch-up contributions to be made next year, employees whose Social Security...
