Category Archives: Carol Schoff

Year End: Are You Ready?

October 22, 20180

‘Hard to believe, I know, but the end of the year is fast approaching! Preparing now can save you a lot of headaches as December 31 gets closer. Three of the top tasks to accomplish prior to the end of the year are discussed herein. Included with this month’s blog is a more comprehensive listing of year-end tasks, in the form of a Year-End Checklist to help you manage the items that can cause the most problems if left unattended. One of the biggest and more time-consuming of the year-end tasks is ensuring your employees’ address information of record is correct. By tackling this now, you can reduce or eliminate the number of W-2s that are returned to you due …

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Where Have All The Manners Gone?

September 11, 20180

              We laugh at the workplace sarcasm found in cartoons, such as those created by Scott Adams of “Dilbert” fame, then perpetuate the sarcasm and uncouth behaviors by Sharing them on Facebook. We have seen t.v. shows, like The Office, with their parodies of life at work, including the exaggerated personalities we can all identify with: the bombastic, egotistical boss; the snarky busy body; the sarcastic sales dude; and the my-crisis-must-now-be-your-crisis co-worker. When the laughter ends and the t.v. is turned off, we sadly realize that these personalities and lack of good manners are what gobble up any sanity we have left when we are in our work environment and indeed make it an …

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Time to Get Serious About I-9 Compliance: Part 2

July 18, 20180

Did you know that if ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) does an inspection of your I-9s, you can be penalized even if you do not have unauthorized aliens on your workforce? The penalties can come from errors on the I-9 forms. And if you lean towards apathy where I-9s are concerned, snap out of it before you are faced with one or more penalties that are regularly imposed on companies who are less than diligent in that area of their business. In case you did not read our HR blog from last month, the penalties can be per error, per employee! One news commentator said that your I-9 diligence should be equal to the diligence you have when dealing with …

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Time to Get Serious About I-9 Compliance: Part 1

June 11, 20180

The Trump Administration has given the directive to hire 10,000 new ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents to keep employers and their hiring practices in check, while penalizing, and possibly arresting, those who violate I-9 regulations. With that many new agents on board, it is easy to see how the plan to conduct up to 15,000 I-9 audits this year can be done. 1 In a year where worksite investigations have already surpassed the number of investigations for all of 2017, 2018 may just be the harbinger of the new status quo. Not only have investigations doubled, but arrests associated with those investigations have quadrupled! Most of those arrested were workers, but it is still not clear if any employers …

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Understanding TIP Credits, Pooling, Sharing

May 11, 20180

March 23, 2018 saw the signing by President Trump of a new bill into law that addressed multiple spending areas, one of which was “a plan to scale back the administration’s proposed tip pooling regulation from late 2017.” The bill did rescind the 2011 regulation that prohibited tipped employees from sharing with non-tipped employees, but only when an employer pays his/her tipped employees full minimum wage. Tipped employees who are paid at least the prevailing minimum wage can now legally share their tips with non-tipped employees. The bill also stipulates that employers, managers, supervisors, etc., cannot collect or retain tips earned by employees.2 To better understand Tip Credits, Tip Pooling and Tip Sharing, each is discussed below, along with a …

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Is the ACA Going Away?

April 10, 20180

Now That We’ve Caught Our Breath….Is the ACA Going Away? Only time will tell if the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will be long-lived, changed into something different, or ceases to be altogether. Perhaps the reality that employers are now starting to see fines for non-compliance will stir up a few healthy debates. What we do know for certain, though, is that changes to this 2010 Act have already arrived. The first change began a year ago, on President Trump’s first day in office.1 On January 20, 2017, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to try to mitigate the fiscal burden the ACA puts on the economy, by directing the various agencies to, in effect, hinder the massive regulatory …

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