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Business · 2 min read ·
OSHA Form 300A Posting Requirements
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires employers to post Form 300A, the Annual Summary of Job-Related Injuries and Illnesses, in a workplace common area by Feb. 1. This document reports the…
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Payroll · 3 min read ·
Choosing Between Biweekly and Semimonthly Payroll
When it comes to payroll, there are generally four methods available for business owners: weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, and monthly. And while choosing a pay period can be an important decision for a small business,…
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Payroll · 2 min read ·
Minimum Wage Increase January 2019
January 1, 2019 will bring about another minimum wage increase. CA's change is due to Law SB3 which increases the minimum wage to $15.00 per hour for large employers by the year 2022. Firms with 25 or fewer employees…
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Payroll · 2 min read ·
New CA Split Shift Premium Update
While there has yet to be any official legal action to put it into IWC Wage Order, a recent update to the terminology regarding split shift premiums on the California Labor Commissioner’s Office website has many prepa…
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Payroll · 3 min read ·
5 Payroll Fraud Ploys
You may think payroll fraud to be nearly impossible to accomplish – after all, it’s money that visibly comes out of your account, passes your books, and should be obvious to detect, right? Wrong. While payroll fraud i…
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Payroll · 4 min read ·
7 Steps to Obeying Nanny Tax Laws
Most of us when we think of the word “nanny” picture a twenty-something college student, watching the kids during the weekdays for cash before she heads home for the night. Rarely, if ever, do we think “employee, with…
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Payroll · 2 min read ·
Check Your Payroll Withholding – Things Have Changed
With the recent Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) that was passed back in November of 2017, we’ve been dedicated to covering every available aspect of the new tax law as the information becomes available. Today’s topic? Th…
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Payroll · 2 min read ·
California Governor Signs Two New Employment Bills
Decent humanity had a win when California’s Governor Jerry Brown signed two new employment bills into state law on July 9 th . The two bills, scheduled to take effect January 1 st of next year, are simple but effectiv…
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Payroll · 2 min read ·
How to Detect Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fraud
While many employers have to deal with the accidental trip, cut, or injury happening to one of their employees at some point throughout the lifespan of their business, no one should have to put up with fraud in the pr…
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Payroll · 2 min read ·
What This Starbucks Lawsuit Could Mean for Your Business
A recent case, Troester v Starbucks , received a ruling from the California Supreme Court that could bring on a significant wave of change for businesses and hourly workers across the nation. In the lawsuit, Douglas T…
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Bookkeeping · 2 min read ·
Payroll Support to End for QuickBooks 2015
Per Intuit’s (the creators of QuickBooks) yearly tradition to retire an older version of their QuickBooks software, Intuit has announced that on May 31, 2018, QuickBooks Desktop 2015 will be discontinued, and as such…
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Payroll · 2 min read ·
Tips For Using the Withholding Calculator
Are you needing to use the new withholding calculator to determine how you should claim for tax purposes on your W4 form? In the last blog, I discussed that the recent tax reform brought about a change in the withhold…
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