By Kathryn Mayer Employers are spending more on overall compensation costs for workers, data out today from the Labor Department finds. Total employer compensation costs for private industry workers averaged $40.23 per hour worked in December 2022. Wage and salary costs averaged $28.37 and accounted for 70.5 percent of employer costs, while benefit...
The IRS sets the guidelines on who is considered an employee (receives a W-2) and a contractor (receives a 1099). Employers need to make sure they have properly classified these individuals because the government is coming down hard on violators. It’s important to understand that a contractor is not an employee. They don’t receive...
By Paul Bergeron There are plenty of unique challenges when trying to recruit and retain hourly employees in high-turnover industries, such as retail, food service and convenience stores. In fact, turnover last year for full-time convenience store sales associates was 130 percent—and 152 percent for part-timers, according to the National Association of Convenience Stores’...
Every Monday, one of the leaders in my networking group shares a positive quote to inspire us at the start of the workweek. I look forward to them as it is a shot in the arm to get me started. Many of you know that I am a huge football fan. While an avid Dolphin...
By Kathy Gurchiek The four-day workweek has been gaining momentum around the world in the last year. A majority of employers who’ve tried the schedule, predominantly in Europe, plan to continue to pay employees for 40 hours for 32 hours of work. The decision comes after they tested the waters with a six-month pilot program...
By Eve Glicksman A new report by the Workforce Institute at UKG found that managers have a greater influence on employee mental health than therapists or doctors, and an influence equal to spouses and partners. That may be surprising until you consider that 60 percent of the employees surveyed said their job was the most significant...
By Kathryn Mayer Back at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, insurance giant Allstate was among the many employers that moved employees to remote work, citing health concerns. With little knowledge about how the arrangement would go and hopes that it would be temporary, the Northbrook, Ill.-based company transitioned 95 percent of its global workforce...
By Kathryn Mayer As pay transparency becomes a bigger workplace issue—with many employees calling for the practice, and several states and cities enacting laws requiring it—recent data solidifies the trend, along with a warning for employers: They may lose out on job candidates if they don’t post a salary range. That’s according to a report...
By Kathryn Mayer In late January, the Biden administration announced that the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) and national emergency will end May 11. The pronouncement marks the beginning of a significant phase in the ongoing pandemic, as well as the ending of a series of benefits enabled by the emergencies. But what exactly...
We like to take it for granted that we receive a paycheck each pay period we have worked. Our pay stub looks simple with the pay rate, hours worked, tax and benefit deductions, gross and net earnings. Payroll processing looks straight forward and easy, and it appears that all that is needed are employees’ hours...
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