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Wage and hour laws are a complex problem for every HR manager. Federal laws end where state laws take over, and both are always in flux. It can be a full time job to keep them all in order. Compliance with wage and hour laws is...

16 April, 2019

Job descriptions are not required by law, but they’re certainly great to have and serve several purposes. First, a job description, when accurately written, should reflect the actual work done. The applicant or employee can see what will be expected of them and to what they’ll...

15 April, 2019

A list of active and inactive employees can be found in the “Employee Setup” page. This page is useful for many reasons including adding new employees, inactivating employees, and viewing employees based on certain populated fields. This list can be sorted and filtered in many...

12 April, 2019

In 2016, the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA) reported that 82% of U.S. employees are paid by direct deposit, jumping from 74% in 2011. Clearly, direct deposit is on the rise. But you may be surprised to learn that, according to the NACHA survey, 64%...

10 April, 2019

Do your employees take time off? Of course they do; that was a rhetorical question. Everyone takes time off, and that's why absence management is so critical for today's workforce management. Employees take time off for a variety of reasons. Time off can include everything from...

09 April, 2019

Do we pay the minimum wage of the state where our headquarters is located or the state an employee does the work?   Good question. It comes up a lot with employers who have people working remotely or at a worksite in a different state. The answer...

08 April, 2019

To audit an employee’s record in Evolution Payroll, click the Show Audit History   button in the header. Result: the highlighted employee’s audit history is displayed listing Change Date - date/s any changes were made – this is the default sorting order. Operation performed Field changed Old Value New...

05 April, 2019

Ministers who pay off their mortgages may have a housing allowance for other eligible expenses of maintaining a home, such as utilities, taxes and repairs. With no mortgage payment, their expenses are likely to be much lower. Some ministers mistakenly think that they can exclude the...

04 April, 2019

Learning from your own mistakes is a good thing, but it's even better to learn from someone else's and avoid them altogether. Today's post is a cautionary tale referencing wage hour violations made by multi-million dollar organizations. FLSA violations committed repeatedly by large employers can rack...

02 April, 2019