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Compensation & Benefits

New OT rules: Determine how bonuses fit into regular rates of pay

10/27/2016
How you set up bonus programs can have a big impact on your overtime budget.

Health premiums up just 3%, deductibles soar

10/25/2016
Annual family premiums for employer-sponsored health insurance rose an average of 3% to $18,142 this year.

No changes to reporting health benefits on W-2s

10/19/2016
If you filed at least 250 W-2s for 2015, you must report the aggregate cost of employees’ health benefits on their 2016 W-2s in Box 12 with Code DD.

Better pay, schedules may boost business

10/18/2016
Need help persuading management that raising wages, providing steady schedules and offering training that may lead to promotions will benefit your organization?

Plan now for 2016 ACA information reporting

10/18/2016
The IRS has released final Affordable Care Act information reporting forms—Forms 1095-C, 1094-C and 1095-B—for 2016 information reporting purposes.

In the Payroll Mailbag …

10/18/2016
Two employees, same name … Withholding for employees who have met their tax liability

EEOC tries once more to collect payroll data on EEO-1 form

10/18/2016
The EEOC’s second attempt to collect W-2 data on the EEO-1 form seems more payroll-friendly, as it relies on W-2, Box 1 data exclusively.

Tax-protesting employee gets 16 months in prison

10/18/2016
Sixteen months in the federal slammer and a lifelong tag as a convicted felon are a high price to pay for filing W-4s on which exempt status was falsely claimed and 10 1040s on which $0 income was reported.

St. Paul paid sick leave law takes effect next July

10/17/2016
St. Paul’s city council has unanimously approved the Earned Safe and Sick Time ordinance granting more than a week of paid sick leave to all employees in the city. The ordinance takes effect on July 1, 2017.

Custodial aide cleans up after equal pay complaint

10/17/2016
The Montevideo, Minn. School District has settled an equal pay discrimination suit with the EEOC for $50,000.