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The 940 – Properly Calculating and Paying Your FUTA Tax
The 940 calculates your total FUTA (Federal Unemployment Tax) owed for a calendar year. FUTA is a tax paid to the federal government and used to support state unemployment insurance programs. It is due on Jan 31st of each calendar year. FUTA is not to be confused with SUTA (State Unemployment Tax), paid throughout the year to any state you have employees in. However, SUTA payments paid on time minimize your..
The Americans With Disabilities Act: Reasonable Accommodations, and the Interactive Process
One of the most frequently misunderstood obligations HR has is to engage in the interactive process with an employee who requests a reasonable accommodation under the ADA. It requires an understanding of who qualifies as a qualified individual with a disability under the ADA, including whether an employee who requests a reasonable accommodation can perform the essential functions of their job. Understanding..
The Best Practice Boardroom
The corporate board model was never designed to do real business work, so it fails time and again. This is the Big Secret of corporate boards that none of us want to admit. It originated as a ceremonial legal body, but now we increasingly demand to fulfill a very functional role. The odds are very much against the board of directors doing its job effectively.Our program will help you even those odds. ..
The Criticality of Engaging All Persons in Your Safety Program, Including Temps and Part Time
The Post-Covid job market can only be described as ‘chaotic’. An employee will walk off the job due to the slightest perceived ‘disrespect’. This is often beyond the control of a line supervisor or crew leader. Correctly configured, employee engagement must come from TOP MANAGEMENT, which is encapsulated as LEADERSHIP in the workplace. This is a very subtle and nuanced element of running any organization. T..
The Effective Board Leader
Across the world, business cultures have the important topic of board leadership exactly backward. For most jobs, we vet candidates based on their experience, training, and previous success for a position. Only after rising to the top through a tough winnowing process do we name the final candidate for the role. Over the past century, we’ve developed an infrastructure of business schools, MBA programs, prof..
The Form 1042-S and W-8 Update –Complying with IRS Information Reporting for Nonresident Aliens
Do you have a plan to deal with IRS demands for backup withholding if you failed to deduct from payments to Nonresident Aliens' (NRAs)? The IRS is working hard to reduce the delinquent tax burden. They know companies are becoming relatively compliant with 1099 reporting, but they also understand that companies and their advisors are less sure when it comes to identifying and performing backup withholding on..
The Good, Bad and Ugly of PTO in 2023 (and Why you Need to Ditch PTO as a Policy)
This program will explore PTO. We will examine the benefits and detriment of PTO policies, the procedural problems that arise with application of PTO, the legal compliance issues that arise with PTO, and the alternatives to a holistic PTO policy toward employee leave. Areas Covered Definitions of PTO The benefits of PTOThe detriments of PTOThe impact of the federal laws on PTO and the compliance concerns th..
The Keys to an Effective NPO Board of Directors : Legal and Management Roles and Responsibilities
Today's non-profit organizations, from large community hospitals to small community arts groups, must gear their operation to an atmosphere of rapid change, their chosen goals ever open to evaluation, their methods flexible, and their programs and services responsive to the needs of their constituencies. An effective and well-trained Board ofDirectors is an essential key for the long-term success of t..
The Magic of Engagement – Putting the WOW Factor into Creating Exceptional Customer Service
Accountability, with engagement, equals profitability. When everyone gets that they are the customer/client/patient experience, no matter what their function or degree of contact with the client is, they will connect at an accelerated level that will differentiate you from your competition. What do great managers know that average managers do not when it comes to employee training, retention, and motivation..
The New 80-20: Drug Testing and the Laws on Marijuana
This program will cover what you need to include for drug testing, why you need drug testing information, the significance of drug testing under SAMHSA, distinctions in testing that can emerge, and what you need to include in our handbook, as well as other critical issues in drug testing for prescriptions, interactions, and other hot testing issues. Areas CoveredGeneral understanding of the impo..
The New I9 – Mandated Requirements for Worker Verification and Authorization
In February 2020, the USCIS released its long-announced revision of the I9. Federal law requires that every employer who recruits, refers for a fee, or hires an individual for employment in the U.S. must complete Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. The Form I-9 process, managed by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, will help you verify your employee's identity and employment authoriza..
The New Overtime Rules: Get Yourself and Your Workforce Ready
Overtime rules are nothing new. We know that certain employees must be paid overtime rates when working more than forty hours per week. Other workers are not subject to overtime rules. What is very possibly changing, however, is the Department of Labor’s salary basis that contributes to the delineation between these groups. Currently, exemptions for workers of overtime rates under the Fair Labor Standards A..
The New USCIS Form I-9 and Remote Verification Option: How to Properly Complete, Retain, and Purge the I-9 and Avoid Fines
On August 1, 2023, the USCIS published a Revised Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, along with several rule changes. Employers were able to use the current form without penalty through the end of October, but starting on Nov. 1, 2023, the prior version of Form I-9 is obsolete and no longer valid for use.The USCIS states that “The newly updated Form I-9 contains myriad revisions to the form and i..
The Supervisor as Your Chief Retention Officer
Crisis at a small or large scale can bring about permanent changes in an organizations’ workplace. As new practices enter the work environment, remote work becomes the norm, social distancing shifts requirements, mask mandates, your frontline leaders, more than ever play an important part in retention practices.What is Retention?"The classic organization is characterized by the command-and-control style of ..
Time To Update Your Employment Policies: Tips and Traps
Employment policies are important documents in any organization. Procedures that are effectively designed and written help both managers and employees increase efficiency and productivity, reduce mistakes and frustration, and save time and money by providing clear guidelines that are easy to find and follow. The policy manual should be reviewed and modified constantly as the workplace and its laws and pract..