Easily Track FFCRA Hours with Variable Pay Rates

Easily Track FFCRA Hours with Variable Pay Rates

We like to talk about buckets around here. No, not the cracked 5-gallon buckets that my parents used as flower pots. Instead, we use buckets to illustrate the power of our Payroll Snapshot to track employee hours with variable pay rates – because as you know,...
Understanding Independent Contractor v. Employee Classification

Understanding Independent Contractor v. Employee Classification

Don’t let this happen to you. In June 2015, FedEx settled with workers in California for $228 million who sued the company for misclassifying them as independent contractors instead of employees. Workers in many other states have also filed suits against FedEx...
A Health Insurance Alternative for Small Businesses

A Health Insurance Alternative for Small Businesses

Small businesses and self-employed workers may have caught a break. Is that a band of angels singing hallelujah? Last week the Department of Labor finalized the expansion of Association Health Plans (AHPs). And you may be asking, “what are Association Health...
How to Be Safe in the Summer Heat According to OSHA

How to Be Safe in the Summer Heat According to OSHA

Today is the first day of Summer and in many parts of the country, especially the South and Southeast, it’s a scorcher. We want to pass along some advice to the thousands of remote employees who use our mobile timekeeping system to clock in and out who do work...
#7 Business Pitfall to Avoid: Miscalculating California Overtime

#7 Business Pitfall to Avoid: Miscalculating California Overtime

It’s been said that “as California goes, so goes the country.” This certainly seems true with culture, but California is relatively unique in one aspect: its overtime laws. While most states enforce overtime pay of 1.5 times regular pay for weekly...
#6 Business Pitfall to Avoid: Overtime Lawsuits

#6 Business Pitfall to Avoid: Overtime Lawsuits

32,900 results in .31 seconds. I did a Google news search on “overtime lawsuits,” and that’s how many hits the Google machine returned faster than I can type “holy moly.” Businesses are being sued at an alarming rate for failing to pay...