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It’s Time to Post OSHA 300 Forms: What You Need to Know

By Legal
According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), maintaining injury and illness records is “easy and beneficial." For many employers, this requirement is anything but easy, so they outsource this important task to a firm such as Marathon. From February to April of every year, affected employers are required to display a summary of the injuries and illnesses recorded the previous year at the workplace. This information helps employers, workers and OSHA evaluate the…
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W-2s and You

By Legal, Payroll
Until this year, employers had two dates to keep in mind when preparing 1099’s and W-2s. Beginning with 2016 forms, employers will now have one filing deadline for all Federal information returns - January 31, 2017. This applies for both employee and agency copies, or whether filing paper or electronic returns. The state of Georgia has also adopted the new January 31 filing deadline. You also need to know that the penalties for missing the…
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2017 is Off and Running

By HR, Legal
In last month’s newsletter, I talked about all the things that need to be done at the year’s end, from compensation strategies to Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting. It was a lengthy list and I assured you that whatever you didn’t get done by December 31, you could address in January. So, here we are. It’s mid-January. And, on top of the things you didn’t get done last year, there are a host of things…
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Getting SMART About Goal-setting

By HR
Smart companies know the value of goal setting in setting their business up for success. Yet, according to the 4th Annual Staples National Small Business Survey, 80 percent of small business owners don’t keep track of their goals. With your long-term objectives in mind, you need to develop “SMART” goals - Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-bound. The acronym has several slightly different variations, which can be used to provide a more comprehensive definition of…
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Closing Out the Year

By Benefits
As you’re wrapping up the year, I’m sure you're making your end-of-year to-do list and checking it twice. There are numerous HR tasks to manage and strategies to consider at the year’s end. Affordable Care Act compliance and reporting, preparation for compliance with new state or federal regulations, succession planning and compensation strategies are just a handful of items on the larger list of year-end activities. It can certainly be overwhelming, but the more organized…
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How Do I Pay a Deceased Employee?

By HR
Paying a deceased employee is a topic that comes up occasionally. Recently, I had a client inquire about the issue and then I was speaking with a colleague who works in marketing and she has had two clients pass away suddenly, leaving significant implications for their families and the companies they worked for. My first take away is the importance of encouraging all of your employees to prepare for their own death in terms of…
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FLSA Delay

By HR, Legal
As you may have heard, there has been a delay in the implementation of the long awaited increase in the wage test for exemption from overtime.  At this point, there is uncertainty as to what will happen in the future, but I personally feel it is unlikely that this change is going away completely. With that being said, we have several options: If you have not yet implemented any changes, your procrastination has paid off.…
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Form I-9 Reminder

By HR, Legal
In August, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved a revised Form I-9. Employers may continue using the current version of Form I-9 until January 21, 2017. After that date, the current form will be invalid.
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How Engaged Are Your Employees, Really?

By HR
As 2016 comes to a close, we continue to focus on a top HR trend – employee engagement. Employee engagement is the relationship between an organization and its employee. Research reveals that 79% of businesses are worried about engagement and only 13% of employees are considered "engaged." The president and CEO of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Henry Jackson, wrote a column a few months ago about job satisfaction and employee engagement. In…
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Time is Up on Implementing Overtime Regulations

By HR, Legal
The Department of Labor's (DOL) new overtime regulations go into effect in just a couple of weeks - December 1, 2016, which we've discussed many times over the past six months: Countdown to FLSA Compliance Focus on the FLSA Staying on Top of Overtime Overtime Overhaul To qualify for exemption, employees must meet two "tests" – a wage test and a duties test. In order for an exemption to apply, an employee's duties and wages…
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