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Compensation & Benefits

Payroll odds and ends from recent IRS email advice

04/26/2017
The IRS is a prodigious publisher. Here are digests of emails sent between IRS offices.

Federal poverty line safe harbor set for 2019 plan year

04/26/2017
Under the Affordable Care Act’s federal poverty line safe harbor, group health benefits are affordable during the 2019 plan year if employees don’t pay more than $102.63 a month.

Your kids’ summer employment: Yes, you need time sheets

04/26/2017
Even children who work in the family business must have their time recorded on time sheets. What’s more, those time sheets must be credible, if you want to take a salary deduction for the wages you’ll pay your kids this summer.

Minnesota bill would limit municipal minimum wages

04/25/2017
Add Minnesota to the growing list of states where conservative legislators are trying to overturn local ordinances raising the minimum wage.

Snapshot: How satisfied are employees with their benefits?

04/25/2017
Not too many workers are absolutely wild about their benefits packages.

Health, retirement perks remain strong draws

04/25/2017
Health insurance remains the employer-provided benefit employees value most, followed by retirement savings.

Can we require seven straight days of work in California?

04/24/2017
Q. Tax season is very busy at our accounting firm. Can I schedule employees to work every day of the week during the spring?

Court: Some unauthorized breaks can be unpaid

04/24/2017
Federal law requires paying employees for short breaks. That doesn’t mean employees can take as many breaks as they want and expect to be paid for that time.

Orientation program may not have to be paid

04/24/2017
Generally, you must pay employees for the time they spend in training. But that’s not always the case for initial orientation programs.

Smaller employers in California might have to offer parental leave

04/24/2017
A California Senate bill (S.B. 63) would expand the California Family Rights Act to businesses with as few as 20 employees.