A couple of senators are dead set on getting rid of the paper bills with Washington's likeness on them – all in an effort to garner some major long-term savings. (more…)
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Let HR and Benefits know: The Department of Labor (DOL) just announced that it plans to issue new rules that would expand the current provisions of the the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). (more…)
Back in the fall, President Obama signed into law a new definition of who qualifies as a new hire, and there a few things about this definition that your Payroll staff needs to know. (more…)
What a difference one year makes. More than a third of finance chiefs are more willing to discuss starting pay with new hires than they were last year at this time. (more…)
The final chapter of one of the most publicized overtime lawsuits in recent memory has been written – and there’s no happy ending for this employer. (more…)
If customers come to you looking for a credit increase because their banks "just aren't lending right now," you have a good reason to be wary. (more…)
The clock's ticking on employers to get their W-2s and 1099s out the door. So it's easy for very avoidable mistakes to get made in the process. (more…)
You may think you've heard them all before, but even the most grizzled managers are likely to be impressed by the reasons these employees couldn't make it to work on time. (more…)
When a long-time employee refused her manager's request to go to lunch and opted to get caught up on a project, she probably never imaged her response would lead to this. (more…)
Excel spreadsheets are to Finance staffers what trucks are to, well, truck drivers. But an increasing number of CFOs are looking at the possibility of life without Excel. (more…)
If your Finance staffers are accessing sensitive, password-protected info, you'll want to make sure they don't use any of these passwords to do it. (more…)
If you thought the Department of Labor (DOL) would be swayed by recent requests to push back the deadline for compliance with the 401(k) fee disclosure regs, you're not going to like this one bit. (more…)
