With several states recently passing legislation restricting access to abortion services, some of your peers have been mulling over paying for medical care travel expenses that employees and their dependents incur because the services they seek are unavailable in their area. If your company’s considering such a travel expense program, be aware that payments/reimbursements could […]
The old adage is true: There’s no such thing as a free lunch – and you also can’t use that lunch as payment for employees, even if it’s on a volunteer basis. One location of a popular fast-food franchise learned that the hard way after a promotional opportunity it offered customers went viral recently. A […]
Your Finance team, particularly staffers from other departments that have been assigned Payroll tasks, may still be adjusting to Tax Cuts and Jobs Act changes that went into effect in 2020. For instance, there are now six worksheets that take the place of federal tax withholding formulas. Each of those worksheets has its own table […]
IRS is once again reminding companies to be on the lookout for tax identity theft schemes as part of its annual Security Summit. Correcting business identity theft can be a long, expensive process. So it’s key to take a preventive approach. Here’s what you and Payroll need to know. Rundown of how identity theft happens […]
Alert Payroll: The Social Security Administration‘s (SSA) E-Verify mismatch resolution schedule is back to normal as of July 15, 2022. Because of COVID-19 disruptions and lockdowns, SSA adopted some flexibility by allowing more time for workers to take action to resolve a “tentative non-confirmation” (more commonly referred to as a mismatch), where info on a […]
Employee misclassification can lead to legal issues for firms of all types and sizes. Even popular TV productions aren’t immune – as one new case demonstrates. A contestant on Netflix’s hit reality show Love is Blind has brought a class action wage and hour suit against the streaming service, along with an associated casting company […]
Are you making sure you and Payroll are accounting for all the time your people spend working, especially for your remote workers? You may think you know how many hours employees are working each day in the office and at home based on the hours they’re typically scheduled to work. However, you might want to […]
Many employers welcome a fresh-faced crop of interns each summer, and often, they’re unpaid interns. A recent court case illustrates why you and your Payroll team should be careful when dealing with interns this summer and beyond. What courts say after unpaid intern sues In McKay v. Miami-Dade County, a woman in Florida had signed […]
IRS needs to make some significant improvements if it wants to boost businesses’ rates of e-filing. That’s according to the latest annual report from the Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC). Each year, ETACC makes recommendations to the Service for changes it needs to make to modernize operations and make tax filing smoother for both […]
