Why Employees Shouldn’t Share Wages How much do you feel you are worth? That is an important question when deciding if you are working at a job worth having. Unless of course you are the owner of the company, then

Currently employers must report work-related injuries or illnesses and maintain a log of these occurrences for review by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The log must be available upon request during an OSHA inspection. However, newly finalized regulations mandate that certain employers submit reports electronically, on an annual basis.

When it comes to running a business, there are a lot of numbers involved. So many numbers you might not even know how to count them all. You have to use numbers for products and prices and overheads and payroll and this and that. Do you know what numbers go where?

Have you ever wondered what it would be like in a world without payroll? Well, for starters, I wouldn’t be here writing this article, you most likely wouldn’t be reading it, and the rest of the world? It would quite literally fall apart. Payroll puts money in the hands of employees so they can put that money back into the local market.

A change in the rules governing overtime has been coming for two years, with a sneak preview of proposed modifications last year. But on May 18, the Department of Labor (DOL) came out with its new final rules, which take effect on December 1, 2016. The rules will significantly raise the salary level used to determine whether employees are eligible for overtime and will affect more than 4 million salaried employees, according to the DOL.

Perhaps the oldest fashion accessory to date, even older than cloth and jewelry, is the beard. Throughout the ages, the beard has had different connotations to different cultures. Sometimes, they were a favorable fashion trend, other times they were sign as a sign of uncleanliness, or even laziness. In today’s world though, the beard went through a movement that has put it at the forefront of pop culture.

Who here loves overtime? Most people would be raising their hands right about now, unless they work off a salary based paycheck that is. When you work a job that pages you an hourly wage, your maximum workweek is 40 hours. Anything past 40 hours that you work becomes overtime, which pays time and a half.

Watch for New Paid Sick Leave Rules for Some Workers Last September, President Obama issued an executive order requiring federal contractors to allow employees at least seven days of paid sick leave. Proposed regulations issued in late February 2016 (Subject

How Are Seasonal Workers Treated Under the “Play or Pay” Provision? Question: Our company has a regular full-time workforce of approximately 40 employees. This year, we’re planning to hire about 80 more full-time retail employees in November and December for the

Some people seem to believe that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has replaced the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA). That’s wrong, although the ACA has changed COBRA and the health insurance landscape in recent years. Obtaining health insurance through an