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Compensation & Benefits

It’s a blizzard out there!

04/17/2024
Payroll managers whose companies take on summer hires know the feeling. Questions about W-4s and I-9s from new members of the tax-paying community are just the beginning. Use this checklist to bring order to the summer hiring process.

Direct deposit is a success; you should be worried

04/17/2024
Congratulations: Upwards of 90% of employees have their pay direct deposited. Your job now is to keep them there. To do this, you must confront four interlocking challenges: hacking, mistakes, technology and state laws allowing employees to opt out and receive paper checks.

Summer hires: Keeping it all in the family

04/17/2024
Family businesses usually don’t have to look very far for summer employees. And while hiring your kids can pay dividends for both of you, don’t make the same mistakes many family businesses make when they hire their kids: picking up their credit card bills or other personal expenses, calling them wages and deducting them as salary expenses.

Help employees build rainy-day funds by offering Pension-Linked Emergency Savings Accounts

04/15/2024
The precarious financial situation in which many workers find themselves is often reflected in high levels of stress, poor sleep and general worry—all factors that can negatively affect productivity and job performance at work. Fortunately, there’s a potential solution that employers can make part of their benefits package.

It’s America Saves Week!

04/11/2024
Let’s explore some of the financial wellness benefits employees say they want now. HR and Payroll should work together to offer the right mix of benefits to recruit and retain talented employees, with the correct tax outcome.

New college grads can expect higher pay than last year

04/08/2024
With an overall projected average salary of $76,736, engineering graduates are expected to be the class of 2024’s top-paid majors. That is a 3.1% increase over last year’s projections.

Explore benefits to help employees find, afford child day care

04/08/2024
Quality child day care can be crushingly expensive. For many workers, employer assistance is a lifeline that lets them remain in the workforce instead of staying on the sidelines until their kids are old enough to go to school.

May 2024: Employer’s business tax calendar

03/31/2024
Here’s your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.

FY 2024 IRS appropriations bill includes payroll provisions

03/26/2024
Congress managed to keep the lights on through Sept. 30—the end of the federal government’s 2024 fiscal year—by passing two minibus (as opposed to an omnibus) appropriations bills. The second minibus, which passed last weekend, includes funding for the IRS and two provisions intended to protect employers from fraud committed by unscrupulous third-party payroll providers.

Bill introduced to make 32-hour workweek the norm

03/25/2024
The Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to cut the standard workweek from 40 hours per week to 32.