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Compensation & Benefits

Bonus time is headache time for the professionals in payroll

06/01/2016
If you’ll be paying nonexempts an annual bonus this month, and they’ve worked overtime during the year, you need to go back over the entire year, figure those bonuses into their regular rates of pay and then refigure their overtime rates. Let’s do the math.

Punching the clock, packing on the pounds

06/01/2016

Feel like you’re gaining weight sitting behind your desk? You’re not alone.

You provide vacation. Why don’t employees take it?

06/01/2016
Memorial Day—the unofficial start to summer—just whizzed by, which means that employees will be scrambling to take vacation days, extending long weekends and otherwise causing havoc with scheduling. Or maybe not.

June 2016: Employer’s business tax calendar

05/31/2016
Here’s your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.

Special analysis: Severance policies may be ERISA plans

05/30/2016
As if you didn’t have enough to worry about with withholding and reporting taxes, federal appellate courts have recently chimed in on whether and how ERISA, the federal benefits law, applies to severance pay policies.

That didn’t take long: GOP seeks to overturn rules

05/28/2016
Two efforts are already underway in Congress to block the Department of Labor’s new rules raising the white-collar overtime salary threshold.

Business interests pan DOL rule doubling overtime salary threshold

05/27/2016
The Department of Labor’s May 18 announcement of final rules on white-collar overtime eligibility drew swift reaction.

California’s $15 minimum wage is here, compliance dates are coming

05/27/2016
In March, the California legislature approved the nation’s highest statewide minimum wage.

California paid family leave expansion becomes law

05/27/2016
Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation increasing the wage replacement rate under California’s paid family leave program.

Worker satisfaction at highest level in 10 years

05/26/2016
More U.S. workers seem to be satisfied with their jobs than at any time since 2005. But do they have everything they want?