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Inclement Weather and Your Payroll Obligations

Hurricanes, storms, tornadoes, blizzards, floods and other weather-related disasters can cause inclement weather closures. But even if one of these calamities causes your business to close, your employees must still be paid on their next regularly scheduled payday if they did any work during the...

16 January, 2019

Need to Convince Your Boss to Invest in a Timekeeping & Scheduling System?

Are you trying to persuade your boss to implement an advanced Timekeeping and Scheduling system such as Workforce Management Suite? Today's post is for HR managers who want to upgrade from manual processes to an automated system but don't have the authority to make the...

15 January, 2019

From the HR Support Center: Can we discipline employees for complaining about the company on social media?

We’ve become aware of a social media post by one of our employees in which he complained about his working hours and pay. The post was “liked” by several of his coworkers, one of whom commented “Preach!” and another of whom posted an angry face...

14 January, 2019

Advanced HR 2.0 – Adding a New Hire Manually

Administrators can add a new hire manually by following these steps. This is a two-step process: Create a new hire (make them an employee of a company), and add them as a user to the system. Both steps can be done together or separately: Navigate...

11 January, 2019

Six Payroll Problems You Need to Avoid

It is no secret that 20% of small business fail their first year. Payroll mistakes are the primary reason. Getting a grip on your payroll can ease cashflow and help keep your company afloat. As it turns out, payroll is critical. Payroll is also dependent on...

08 January, 2019

From the HR Support Center: Court Ruling on ACA Has No Immediate Impact on Employers

Last month, a federal judge in Texas ruled that the entirety of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was unconstitutional due to changes made to the tax code last year. He said, in short, that eliminating the individual tax penalty made the whole law unworkable. The judge...

07 January, 2019

Timekeeping and Scheduling for Schools: Ditch Old-School Processes

Budgets for private and public schools are tighter than ever. Administrators, teachers, and support staff have to do so much with so little. Educational institutions that are still using manual time and attendance tracking operations can take a lesson from businesses that invest in the latest...

04 January, 2019

How Does Clergy Pay Estimated Taxes?

Pastors, Ministers and other Clergy Staff are subject to estimated federal, social security and state tax payments on a quarterly basis. For example, when you receive clergy income in the first quarter of the year, the taxes are due at the end of that quarter. The...

03 January, 2019

Evolution Payroll – Navigating Evolution Payroll

Navigate within Evolution Payroll using buttons, symbols, or by clicking within the fields themselves. When adding information, press the TAB key to advance to each of the applicable fields in the order in which they should be completed. When tabbing, the next screen will open when the TAB key...

02 January, 2019

Downsizing Doesn’t Necessarily Pay Off

Laying off employees alone will not fix a business that's in financial trouble. That's the conclusion of a series of studies of large corporations over nearly two decades, published in Perspectives on Work, a publication of the Industrial Relations Research Association. Studies concluded that mass layoffs have not...

01 January, 2019