Tag: payroll

February 21, 2024

The Department for Business and Trade yesterday published a list of 524 employers who have collectively left 172,000 workers a combined £16 million out of pocket, although many of the cases date back several years. The list’s release comes as […]

September 7, 2023

Looking for tools to help create efficiency in your organization’s HR processes? Your search ends here. We’ve compiled a list of the 10 best payroll software to help you make your choice. We’ll give you an overview of each software, […]

August 23, 2023

Workers’ compensation premiums are typically based on estimates of your company’s payroll and employee data (i.e., job classifications), or projected gross sales over the course of your policy term. When an insurer conducts a premium audit, they’re trying to calculate […]

January 6, 2023

There is no question that the holiday season and the end-of-the-year period can be challenging for HR departments everywhere. In the final months of 2022, HR managers are facing numerous questions and multiple new challenges: payroll and employee benefits, resignations […]

December 16, 2022

Business secretary Grant Shapps has revealed that plans for a “single enforcement body” for labour laws had been put on the backburner. It would have brought together three current regulators under one roof and had a remit to impose large […]

December 7, 2022

As a leader in payroll processing and outsourcing, ADP is frequently asked many questions about payroll and what are “leading practices.” (See recent blog on How to Structure and Staff Your Company’s Payroll Function as an example.) Another such question […]

October 21, 2022

The IRS released adjustments that will raise the top amounts of all seven federal income tax brackets for 2023 and thereby increase the paychecks of many employees by taxing more of their earnings at lower rates. The IRS announced the […]

October 19, 2022

Many employers have already claimed millions of dollars in tax credits through the Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC). Those employers that have not yet claimed (or incorrectly claimed) any ERTC may still do so retroactively by filing amended payroll tax […]

April 13, 2022

Q: We have a non-exempt employee who recently accepted an exempt position with our company. We are considering asking him to come back in on the weekends to help with his previous non-exempt job, however he would hit 40 hours […]

January 5, 2022

Automation has been slowly lurking and shaping the future of work for years now. And with the pandemic outbreak, the workforce landscape changed drastically, both for recruiters and job seekers. Keeping up with these trends and being aware of how […]

December 17, 2021

One of the most important areas within organizations after the start of the pandemic is Human Resources (HR), where recruiting remotely became a challenge, but sustaining talent or measuring productivity from a home office format, they also became urgent scenarios. […]

December 9, 2021

payroll. It had been set to expire on Jan. 1, 2022, but the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed into law in November accelerated the end of the credit retroactive to Oct. 1, 2021—except for wages paid by a recovery […]

August 13, 2021

There’s a recent major development in the insurance world you may not have heard of yet: Washington just became the first state in the nation to develop legislation that makes long-term care affordable for its workers. Called “WA Cares,” this […]

April 23, 2021

Processing payroll has a lot of variables. Organizations need to understand federal, state, and local income tax requirements; how to process wage garnishments; how to set up payments for any benefits that come out of payroll, etc. There are also […]

April 6, 2021

The Family and Medical Insurance Leave (FAMILY) Act was reintroduced in Congress in 2021 and is known as S. 463 and H.R. 1185. The Act has been introduced repeatedly during legislative sessions for the past 7 years but has yet […]

October 7, 2020

Earlier this summer, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order directing Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin to defer the withholding, deposit, and payment of certain payroll taxes beginning September 1 through the end of 2020. The order left several […]

July 16, 2020

In an extraordinary legislative session interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic—which led to a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that lawmakers could reconvene after initially adjourning in late March 2020, despite a constitutional provision limiting regular sessions to “one hundred and twenty […]

April 21, 2020

You may be asking yourself: ‘How can I, as a business owner or HR professional during this crisis, reduce my insurance expenses right now?’ Managing cash flow is at the top of people’s minds right now, and yes, there is […]

April 3, 2020

With jobless claims hitting record highs, you might finally need to figure how to ask for help. A portion of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act allocates $350 billion in government-backed loans for small businesses, under the […]

March 11, 2020

Companies spend a lot of time and resources on training efforts. In the United States alone, companies spend close to $90 billion annually on training costs, including payroll expenses and external products and services. Given that significant expenditure, doesn’t it […]