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W2 or 1099, which one is legal for you? Got a call from a client just starting out and they’re going to be having folks work for, for them for just a few hours a week, maybe a couple of days a week. So they thought they could pay them as an independent contractor. That’s...

Garnishment notices got you down, let’s talk. So a client was served with a garnishment from a court. It was a court order, and they didn’t know what they were supposed to do. So the process is the employer can be held liable for that amount of money that that employee’s being garnished if they...

The tax man cometh and he taketh away. I had a client ask me, “how often can an employee change their income withholding taxes?” In other words, providing another W4 to change their deductions on their paycheck. Technically, whenever the employee wants to. So it’s whenever they have, they wanna make a change. But what...

Workers’ comp is a race against the clock. Wanna win? Listen up. So I had a client who called me the other day and asked about an employee who was driving to a client’s location and they were in a car accident and they were injured. And my client asked, “does that fall under workers’...

Worried that your next hire’s gonna leave you on the hook? So I had a client who said to me, “I don’t need to do background checks. You never get the right information anyway.” Well, I got news for them and I told them, you can still get in trouble because there’s what’s called negligent...

That skeleton in the closet can cost you. Listen in. I have someone who is now hiring employees who are going to be going to clients’ homes. That’s very important to make sure that that employee is not gonna do anything that can cause you headaches down the road because of something they may have...

Employee mistakes costing you a fortune? Yikes! So I had a client who called me and said that their, one of their employees had used stock images that they did not buy the license for, which caused my client’s client to get in serious trouble. We had proof of that and as long as you...

Steal my heart? Fine. Steal my inventory? No way! So I got a call the other day from a client who has an employee who was stealing from my client’s client. That client suspected the person of stealing and set them up. They now have proof that that person was stealing from them. And came...

I am putting you on notice. Stop using the word probation. So I got a call the other day from a client who used the word probation during the first 90 days of their employee’s employment. And I said, that’s a word we don’t use anymore because probation implies that you go through that period...

Employee discipline problems bumming you out. Listen in. I got a call from a client the other day. He said, “My employees missed 25% of their time since the first of the year. I wanna fire them.” And I said, “Have you talked to them about it? Have you documented any of their time off?”...