In 2020, the IRS published an alert urging employers and taxpayers to beware of tax scams, including payroll phishing schemes. And that's only the beginning when it comes to payroll threats. In general, employers must also guard against: Noncompliance with payroll...
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DOL Examines Compensation for Training Time
In a new opinion letter, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division examined the compensability of training time [FLSA 2020-15, 11/3/2020]. Basic rules. Two keys to the compensability of training time are whether the training is related to the employee’s job and...
How to Help Employees Communicate More Effectively
In an ideal world, communication would be easy. We’d immediately know exactly what to say or write. Emails, Slack messages, and reply threads would practically write themselves. And there’d be no confusion about what anyone meant, ever. Of course, communication never...