Employee Misclassification Penalties

Employee Misclassification Penalties

Employers may unknowingly trigger risks of labor violation penalties and fines by improperly classifying employees as independent contractors. These employee misclassification penalties can be quite steep, so it’s important to be vigilant when hiring a worker....
Can an Employer Make Employees Use Vacation Hours?

Can an Employer Make Employees Use Vacation Hours?

Q: Can an employer legally make their employees use their accumulated vacation hours? A: Yes. An employer can tell an employee that they need to take time off. However, that rarely bodes well for the morale of the employee if they don’t want to take the time off. Some...

Employers Must Use Revised Form I-9 in September 2017

UPDATE: the new Form I-9 must be used for all new hires beginning today, September 18, 2017. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will release a new Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, on Monday, July 17. Employers will be able to...
Payroll Check Theft and How to Guard Against it

Payroll Check Theft and How to Guard Against it

Payroll check theft is on the rise. In June of 2017, two bookkeepers and nine of their family and friends were charged with stealing nearly $1 million from Zirkle Fruit Company in Washington State, after a payroll scheme that lasted a year. Also last June, a Louisiana...
Five Tips for Effective Meetings

Five Tips for Effective Meetings

If you want to get a snapshot of your organization’s efficiency and the health of its culture, look at your meetings. Are they efficient and productive? Do their results justify the time and expense? Are meetings an occasion for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and...
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