And by act, we mean Act 32, which consolidates Pennsylvania’s tax collection systems, reassigning Earned Income Tax from each individual school district into a county wide Tax Collection District. This consolidation has resulted in a myriad of changes that employers must follow, beginning with the first payroll in 2012*. Is your business ready? One major [...]
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Employers: Do You Have Your Act Together?
Monday, August 29th, 2011Got Employee Benefit Plans? Keep an Eye on Pending Legislation.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011Just when you think employee benefit plans couldn’t get any more confusing or complicated, new federal legislation gets proposed to prove you wrong. Thanks to a great article written by Gary W. Howell and Michael R. Durnwald of Katten, Muchin, Rosenman, LLP, and posted on LinkedIn, it’s clear that business owners need to keep an [...]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2011(Just a friendly reminder about those 5500 & 5500-EZ forms, folks.) hireVision would like to take this moment to remind employers about the upcoming July 31, 2011 filing deadline for your company’s 5500 & 5500-EZ forms. The United States Department of Labor (DOL) now uses the EFAST computerized processing system. EFAST is designed to simplify [...]
Getting Caught Without Good Timesheet Records? There’s an App for That.
Thursday, June 9th, 2011The U.S. Department of Labor recently launched its first application for smartphones, a timesheet to help employees independently track the hours they work and determine the wages they are owed. The free app is currently compatible with the iPhone and iPod Touch and is available in English and Spanish. It makes it easy for users [...]
SHARP Businesses Take Advantage of OSHA’s Free Consultation Service
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011Not nearly enough small business owners know that when it comes to being compliant with workplace health and safety regulations, there is help for them out there. Small and mid-sized businesses can get free, confidential and comprehensive consultation visits from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA). OSHA’s Safety and Health Achievement Recognition Program (SHARP) [...]
Employee Hotlines: Not Just for Big Corporations
Friday, April 29th, 2011In a perfect world, your employees would always feel comfortable coming directly to you with a workplace problem or concern that you aren’t aware of. (Actually, in a perfect world, there would be no workplace problems or concerns at all because we’d all be happy campers who were independently wealthy, but that doesn’t really work [...]
ICE, ICE, Baby…Beware
Friday, March 11th, 2011One thousand companies across the country recently learned they won the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) audit lottery. Yay? These businesses received notification of upcoming audits of their new-employees’ I-9 forms and their identification documents for proof of eligibility to work in the United States. ICE has launched a new series of worksite investigations to [...]
FMLA and Temporary Workers: Who’s the Boss?
Friday, December 10th, 2010Do you currently have a staffing service filling your temporary workforce needs, or are you considering it? If so, make sure you are clear on what your responsibilities are should a temporary worker request time off under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Who’s the boss, really? You or the staffing company? Both of you, [...]
End of Year Reporting Update: Group Life Insurance Imputed Income
Wednesday, December 1st, 2010It’s December, which means time is running out for you to report your company’s group life insurance imputed income to Uncle Sam. Many companies don’t realize offering employees an employer-paid group term life insurance policy in excess of $50,000 is considered a fringe benefit by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Employers are required to report [...]
