Payroll

Bonus time is headache time for the professionals in payroll

06/01/2016

If you’ll be paying nonexempts an annual bonus this month, and they’ve worked overtime during the year, you need to go back over the entire year, figure those bonuses into their regular rates of pay and then refigure their overtime rates. Let’s do the math.

You provide vacation. Why don’t employees take it?

06/01/2016

Memorial Day—the unofficial start to summer—just whizzed by, which means that employees will be scrambling to take vacation days, extending long weekends and otherwise causing havoc with scheduling. Or maybe not.

June 2016: Employer’s business tax calendar

05/31/2016

Here’s your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.

Special analysis: Severance policies may be ERISA plans

05/30/2016

As if you didn’t have enough to worry about with withholding and reporting taxes, federal appellate courts have recently chimed in on whether and how ERISA, the federal benefits law, applies to severance pay policies.

ICE gives advice for internal Form I-9 audits

05/26/2016

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE for short, has provided guidance for employers that want to conduct internal audits of their I-9 forms.

Payday lenders continue to cause payroll headaches

05/24/2016

Payday lenders offer low-income employees a tantalizing proposition: Here’s the money you need right now. They don’t mention the usurious interest rates.

2016 All-States Chart on Vacation Pay/Termination Laws

05/20/2016

This month’s chart lists states’ laws on Vacation Pay on Termination Laws.

E-pay & direct deposit: Know your new options

05/16/2016

These days, most employees have their pay deposited directly into their bank accounts. Most isn’t all, however.

In the Payroll mailbag this month …

05/12/2016

Mother’s Day, college graduations, tough payroll questions. Just par for the course, really.

Midyear changes allowed for 401(k) safe harbor plans

05/10/2016

If you don’t want the hassle of annual 401(k) plan discrimination testing, you can adopt a 401(k) safe harbor plan. But there have always been limitations on these plans. The IRS has now eliminated one huge obstacle.