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Shrinking Margins Due To Poor Overtime Management?

Is overtime management (or lack thereof) shrinking your bottom line? Paying time and a half can quickly inflate your cost of labor. And if your staff is already stretched thin, this probably means your supervisors and HR team have plenty on their plate without having...

12 March, 2019

From the HR Support Center: Obama Led New Minimum Salary for Exempt Employees Not Completely Dead

As you may recall, a new minimum salary for exempt employees almost took effect in December of 2016. The minimum salary of $23,660 per year was set to increase to $47,476 per year, but a last-minute ruling from a federal judge put all that on...

11 March, 2019

Advanced HR 2.0 – Changing a Pay Rate

The Compensation screen displays the employee’s primary rate or salary amount. You can view all of the employee’s current and historical compensation (pay rate) changes. In Advanced HR, you don’t change a pay rate, you add a new primary pay rate. New pay rates will have...

08 March, 2019

The Pros and Cons of a Housing or Parsonage Allowance

When the United States began, most pastors lived in church-owned parsonages, and the US carried over the common European practice of not taxing that as income. The basis of the housing exclusion from taxable income is deeply rooted in our nation’s tax history. In 1954, the...

07 March, 2019

Tax reform brings changes to fringe benefits that can affect an employer’s bottom line

The IRS reminds employers that several programs have been affected as a result of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act passed last year. This includes changes to fringe benefits, which can affect an employer's bottom line and its employees' deductions. Here’s information about some of these...

06 March, 2019

The Payroll Partners Guide to Speeding Up Timesheet Approvals

Time card approvals can overwhelm managers who do it the old school way. Totaling hours by hand on paper timesheets is a waste of time for employees. Would you like to speed up time card approvals so they take just a couple minutes a week for your...

05 March, 2019

From the HR Support Center: Can a non-exempt employee manage another non-exempt employee?

Yes, it is completely permissible for non-exempt employees to manage other non-exempt employees. In fact, employers are under no obligation to classify employees as exempt, even if they meet the criteria under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Employers may have an entire workforce of non-exempt...

04 March, 2019

Advanced HR 2.0 – Rehiring an Employee

When an existing terminated employee is being rehired, you can update the employee’s status from Terminated to Active using the Rehire process in Advanced HR 2.0. Rehiring an Employee (High Level Steps) Navigate to HR Admin – Employee Maintenance – Employment Detail. Select the Company. Select the Employee. The Effective...

01 March, 2019

How Clergy Staff Pay For Social Security Taxes

Determining the correct social security tax for clergy is often confusing. Clergy pay social security tax under the Self-Employment Contributions Act (SECA), not under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). Clergy engaged in the exercise of ministry are always treated as self-employed for social security tax purposes. A congregation should...

28 February, 2019

Workers Must Be Paid for Breaks of Less than 20 Minutes

A federal appellate court has upheld a lower court's ruling that a marketing call center wrongfully docked employees for breaks of 20 minutes or less during which they were logged off of their computers and didn't have to perform any work related duties [Secretary United...

27 February, 2019