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10/18/2023
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10/17/2023
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Offer pay to play: Vacation stipends encourage staff to take time off to recharge

06/28/2023
This summer is shaping up to be the season of post-COVID vacations. Employers are actively encouraging employees to take long-delayed vacations. Some are even adding financial incentives in the form of vacation stipends. They are literally paying employees extra to go on vacation.

They didn’t seriously argue that, did they? Religion in the kitchen stirs the DOL to action

06/21/2023
Religion in the workplace is a touchy matter. What if your boss brought in a priest and encouraged everyone to confess their sins? What if you weren’t Catholic? It’s not a hypothetical question. An employee of a California restaurant testified that his employer brought in a person identified as a priest to hear their confessions during work hours.

Passive or active? Decide early which open-enrollment strategy fits your organization this year

05/17/2023
As you begin planning for benefits open enrollment this fall, now is the time to address a basic question: Will you allow employees to passively enroll—simply continuing the benefits they chose for this year—or will you require them to proactively select their benefits for the 2024 plan year?

Proposed regs would strengthen HIPAA’s privacy provisions

05/02/2023
Proposed regulations issued April 17 by the Department of Health and Human Services would extend the scope of HIPAA’s privacy protections specifically to women who travel to other states to receive reproductive health-care services where those services are legal and would apply to almost all judicial or administrative proceedings related to this care.

STOP! Do not pass go without checking with Payroll first

04/27/2023
Employees shouldn’t be bored or discontented at work, because bored and discontented employees aren’t productive employees. But the phrase employee engagement, like the employee experience, seems like a euphemistic way of saying motivation. Why not just say motivation?

3 questions to kick off open-enrollment season right now!

04/26/2023
Six months out, it’s time to start planning for HR’s biggest event of the year: open enrollment. Here are some best practices to ensure your open-enrollment period gets off to a productive start in late October or early November.

Bereavement leave: How to manage time off when an employee’s loved one dies

04/26/2023
Is HR’s focus on leave related to childbirth misplaced? According to the Census Bureau, there were more deaths than births in most U.S. counties during the 12 months that ended June 30, 2022. Any employer that offers reasonable bereavement leave—especially paid leave—sets itself apart as a workplace that values work-life balance.

Look, Ma, my first W-4!

04/26/2023
On the off chance you’re not the parent, you’re the payroll manager dealing with this new member of the taxpaying community—or maybe several of them—as your company takes on summer hires. Use this checklist to bring order to the summer hiring process.