5 HR & Payroll Mistakes That Startups Make All Too Often

Justworks

APRIL 11, 2016

But there’s one area where startups definitely don’t want to break the rules: payroll and HR. Startups that don’t comply with payroll and HR laws can face serious legal and financial consequences. With that in mind, we've put together this list of the five biggest startup payroll and HR mistakes to avoid. HR Payroll Business TipsStartups are natural rule breakers. You’ve got to ruffle a few feathers and disrupt the status quo if you want to build the next Facebook. Some penalties are even severe enough to (almost) drive them out of business.

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Misclassifying Workers as Independent Contractors: What Could Go Wrong?

Justworks

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Well, an American Payroll Association instructor once told a class, “You can call a shark a guppy, but that won't stop him from biting you.”. In response to our article regarding whether part-time or temporary workers are employees or independent contractors , one reader wrote the following: I sit in a pod with 3 other full time employees doing the exact same work I'm doing. Compliance

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Hiring Remote Employees In A New State: Know The Rules

Justworks

JULY 27, 2015

Benefits HR Compliance PayrollWorking remotely or working from home has become increasingly more common, especially in the digital and tech industries. And managing a team that works remotely can save money and increase productivity. Staying compliant when bringing on new hires is difficult enough, and it's way too easy to make mistakes. But staying compliant is even harder when hiring remote employees in other states. Each state has different rules on how employees are hired and employed. Here's an overview of the rules to keep in mind when hiring in a new state.

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Feature Launch: Add Non-US Based Employees to Justworks!

Justworks

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Even if international employees aren't on Justworks payroll, you'd like to include them in the company directory and the company calendar, allow them to request paid time off, and give them access to the document center. We've heard from many of you that you'd like your non-US based employees included in the Justworks platform. We completely understand. Justworks Love

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When Your Startup Should Hire Its First Employee

Justworks

AUGUST 5, 2015

Benefits HR PayrollRunning a business by yourself has its perks. You're (most often) the sole decision maker and can drive your business forward at your own pace. And often, the idea of finding, hiring and managing employees can be daunting. But it shouldn't be. Growing your team at the right time can catapult your business to the next level.

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PEO vs Broker: Which is the Better Option When Picking Healthcare?

Justworks

JULY 24, 2015

Benefits HR Payroll HealthcareThe business is launched, the product is being worked on, you’ve signed a few angel investors, and you have a few employees. You can see that things are going to continue getting better, until one day when one of your employees asks about health insurance. And if you are growing and you are about to hit that 50 full-time employee mark, the Affordable Care Act definitely needs you to think about health insurance. But when it comes down to it, there are three ways that you can go about getting your employees health insurance.

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Know The Basics: IRS Form 941

Justworks

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Payroll TaxesW-2, 1099, W-9. The sheer number of tax forms for employers and employees can get complicated. For companies, corporate taxes can be cripplingly complex. We want to take that complication off your plate, starting with the IRS Form 941 for employers.

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Understanding the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Mobility Tax (MCTMT)

Justworks

AUGUST 6, 2015

In May 2009, the governor of New York officially signed the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Mobility Tax (MCTMT), which is a 0.34% tax that every employer and self-employed individual that has payroll over a certain threshold has to pay. However, only those businesses and self-employed individuals in the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District (MCTD) had to pay. Compliance

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Easier Employee Reporting (and More) With Our New Product Update

Justworks

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

We’ve built a new robust reports center that allows you to pull comprehensive, customizable data about your employees based on census, benefits, payroll, and PTO data. Additionally, we recently launched a feature that gives you control over when to send Justworks invitations to your employees. These two launches make Justworks more flexible to cater to the needs of your company — giving you more control over the information you need when you need it. Justworks Love Product Updates

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8 Tips For Employers Looking To Successfully Negotiate Salary

Justworks

AUGUST 26, 2015

HR Payroll Business TipsOnce you have determined that you need to expand your team and have successfully completed interviewing candidates, it’s time to move on to the next crucial step: negotiating salary. Above all else, don’t go into negotiations with a confrontational attitude. Negotiations with a new hire present a wonderful opportunity to reflect your company’s core values while empowering your newest team member. Want a positive experience for all? Follow these eight tips on how to negotiate salary.

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What Our Team Learned From a "Surprise and Delight" Hack Week

Justworks

MARCH 18, 2016

Our customers are the reason we’re here — to help their businesses run health care, payroll, and compliance smoothly. This is a guest post by Camilla Velasquez , Justworks' VP of Product. When you’re part of a growing company, it’s easy to get caught up in the day to day tasks and projects that need to get done. Although that’s important for success and growth, it’s just as important to take a step back and look at the bigger picture. That’s why we decided to do a customer-focused, “Surprise and Delight” hack week this March. So, what did that mean for the Justworks’ team and customers?

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Making Sense of 501c3 Organizations (Plus An Update From Justworks)

Justworks

AUGUST 3, 2015

Benefits HR Payroll Nonprofit501(c)(3) organizations, informally referred to as 501c3, are non profit organizations in the United States that have received approval by the IRS to be tax exempt. For the most part, if you’ve donated to a non profit of any kind, you’ve made that donation to a 501c3 organization. As is pretty clear, pretty much any non profit is a 501c3. But what does that mean exactly?

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Have an Employee Who is Leaving? We Made a Guide for That.

Justworks

MAY 27, 2016

Between IRS forms, payroll and benefit complications, and electronic account access, details can slip through the cracks. Whether your employee has left your company for another one or passed away , the required paperwork is hard to keep top of mind when a big transition is taking place. Offboarding a departing employee isn’t as simple as waving goodbye and wishing them well. Have a procedure in place. Business Tips

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What You Need to Know About the New Federal Overtime Ruling

Justworks

MAY 26, 2016

Compliance PayrollLast week, the U.S. Department of Labor officially defined the new income threshold for exempt and non-exempt employees. Employers take note: these changes will affect wages or hours worked for approximately 13 million Americans, and perhaps some of your own employees.

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Ultimate Software

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Happy National Payroll Week! National Payroll Week celebrates America’s 150 million wage earners and the payroll professionals who pay them. Through the payroll withholding system, we contribute, collect, report and deposit approximately $2.2 To recognize National Payroll Week, a few of our favorite industry thought leaders shared why they feel payroll is so important.

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nettime solutions

JUNE 11, 2015

You have that same opportunity using time and attendance software with payroll. Without fail, the payroll manager has to first find the employee(s) to correct missing information –– before they can even submit payroll. cloud based time and attendance software solution integrates with most major types of payroll software. We took a commuter bus the other day. Guess what?

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Sage HRMS

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Our new series, The Experts Guide, covers trends surrounding the human resources and payroll industry. One of the hot topics in the payroll industry right now is if outsourcing payroll operations is right for businesses. Preparing payroll can be tedious, time-consuming, and prone to human error, yet it’s an integral function for every business. Relief from tax penalties.

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Sage HRMS

JULY 14, 2016

Benoit Gruber, VP, global product marketing at Sage, shares five unexpected places to look when examining your payroll data. Payroll is a vital source of data in your business and has the potential to have an immediate financial benefit. Businesses are required by law to keep live payroll information, so there is no chance of your making decisions based on old news.

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Sage HRMS

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Everyone finds it challenging to keep up with the ever-changing payroll laws. We’ve got five tips that will help you stay compliant and get payroll right every time.  . Similarly, according to research by Fundera, a third of businesses are penalized for payroll compliance mistakes. Once these new changes go into effect payroll will be processed differently. Don’t stress?

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Ultimate Software

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

With this being National Payroll Week, we wanted to take a closer look at a hot-button issue for payroll professionals across America. If you’re a payroll professional, you probably know Pennsylvania has one of the most complex local tax structures throughout the country—as in, one simple employee change, such as a new address, will likely require some manual effort.

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FingerCheck

MARCH 20, 2016

We’ve spoken previously about green initiatives in a payroll environment. The easiest way to promote green payroll is to eliminate paper wherever we can, and we can start with paper checks! simple authorization form puts your employees on the way to paperless payroll. Q : Speaking of paperless…. She also serves as Director of Payroll Compliance for FingerCheck. Merle M.

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nettime solutions

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Payroll is often one of the most complex and time-consuming processes within a workplace. Sleep better knowing your payroll accuracy is no longer an issue with: Accurate labor and wage reporting. Automatic federal and state payroll tax deduction. payroll business intelligence business growthEnforced attendance policies. Secured time punches.

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FingerCheck

AUGUST 25, 2016

In theory, managing your company payroll shouldn’t be that hard. Consider strengthening your payroll approach with these tips. . 1. Using overpriced payroll services – According to Jeremy Marsan, business analyst at  Fit Small Business.  “ Most small businesses will be better off avoiding old school payroll services that are overpriced and cater to larger businesses.

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FingerCheck

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Using SOLE Visa Payroll Cards , issued by our partner SOLE Paycard , employees can get paid immediately on payday, receive cash back, and make everyday purchases, all for free. Within the Payroll Menu of each employee, under “ Direct Deposit ,” you can independently enter each card’s details. FingerCheck360 is now offering paycards as a payment option for employees!

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ExactHire HR Trends

MARCH 31, 2016

Payroll service outsourcing is nothing new regardless of whether you look at large employers, or organizations that fall within the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) space. Want to identify the warning signs that suggest your clients may seek payroll services elsewhere? HR Solutions Workforce Management HR tech HR trends paperless HR payroll payroll provider reseller

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Ceridian

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Everyone loves getting paid, which is just one of the reasons why we at Ceridian are excited to celebrate National Payroll Week (September 5-9). In case you haven’t heard of NPW before, this celebration led by the American Payroll Association kicks off each year on Labor Day, and gives companies the ideal opportunity to thank their payroll department for their amazing efforts to help ensure that paychecks are accurate and on time. Employers have a lot to thank their payroll professionals for. Give payroll pros the recognition they deserve.

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Workforce Software

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Did you know that September 7-11, 2015 is National Payroll Week? Established by the American Payroll Association in 1996, National Payroll Week is dedicated to celebrating wage earners and the payroll professionals who ensure they are paid properly. Workforce Management APA PayrollAnd with 150 million earners in the U.S., that’s no small achievement.

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A Day in the Life of Payroll Professional

Ramco

AUGUST 26, 2015

The post A Day in the Life of Payroll Professional appeared first on Ramco Blog. Ramco HCM Suite Management payroll payroll process payroll security payroll software time sheets

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FingerCheck

JUNE 3, 2016

The concept of escheatment and abandoned property doesn’t naturally come to mind when dealing with payroll operations.  By definition, though, payroll can have unclaimed and abandoned property. . What it means for Payroll: With the advent of paycards and the long-term use of direct deposit, payroll unclaimed wages are a relatively small problem for many employers. 

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FingerCheck

JUNE 14, 2016

For instance, just how time-consuming dealing with payroll is. Payroll is one of the less favorable aspects of business management, but it’s one that is necessary. You may have innocently been under the impression that payroll is as simple as doing a little math to ensure you pay your employees accurately. She also serves as Director of Payroll Compliance for FingerCheck.

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FingerCheck

OCTOBER 25, 2016

We sat down and spoke with our Payroll Compliance Director, Merle Capello CPP, who highlighted the following risky practices to refrain from: 1. Assuming that because you use a payroll software, you don’t have to check your totals. . Designating all payroll authority to one person. . Writing off an outstanding payroll check. . Merle M. Capello CPP .

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HR Daily Advisor

JULY 3, 2016

With an increased focus on equity in pay across genders as well as a need to ensure the organization is not (even inadvertently) discriminating, more and more organizations are beginning to consider greater payroll transparency. Pros of Payroll Transparency. Cons of Payroll Transparency. The post Pros and Cons of Payroll Transparency appeared first on HR Daily Advisor.

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Paycor

MARCH 3, 2016

Payroll-Based Journal ( PBJ ) is a result of one of those new employer mandates, and it specifically affects nursing homes and long-term care facilities (including skilled nursing facilities). CMS has created a free system for facilities to use to submit this information: Payroll-Based Journal. This will include full-time staff as well as agency and contract staff. Census data.

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nettime solutions

JANUARY 29, 2015

Time and attendance reports can help payroll managers reconcile the amount of payroll taxes withheld and owed. With an advanced time and attendance system, you can create Excel spreadsheets or PDF reports that seamlessly integrate into your payroll systems. Managing payroll taxes is a serious subject and we like to simplify things when we can. It’s that simple.

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Workday

MARCH 10, 2016

These are three strengths of Workday Payroll applications that empower payroll professionals every day. Today we are introducing Workday Payroll for France, which extends to France the same control, flexibility, and insight that we have delivered with our payroll offerings for the U.S., flow from HCM to payroll. Control, flexibility, and insight. Control. Insight.

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Ceridian

OCTOBER 25, 2016

It began long ago with the first application to impact the department – payroll software. As anyone who has been in the industry for a while already knows, the modern era of payroll is a far cry from the manual entry, paper-based filing systems that seldom involved any non-HR employee. . Employees expect seamless access to their payroll information and businesses must be able to offer it in a controlled, accurate, and efficient fashion. . Recently at the 19 th annual HR Technology Conference, I was invited to speak on a panel that looked at how Payroll 2.0

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FingerCheck

JUNE 6, 2016

From time tracking to payroll, nearly any business service can now be self-managed completely online. The The benefits of going paperless in managing your company payroll are many – here are ten: Document storage : Paperless payroll stores all of your employee payroll data in one easy-to-access place. Employee payroll data is securely backed up and available online. .

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