How to Avoid Open Enrollment Mistakes

During open enrollment, employees can drop their health insurance or add to it during a short period each year. It’s a chance for workers to make any changes they need to their health insurance. Unfortunately, a lot of employees fail to take advantage of this...

Managing Holiday Pay

You want to give your employees a few days off for the holidays. Perhaps you want to offer July 4 and 5 this year, or you’re toying with the idea of shutting down on Black Friday. How do you manage your employees’ paychecks when you do this? Do you have to...

4 Reasons to Switch to Paperless Payroll

Paperless deposit offers huge benefits to you and your employees, and the first among them is convenience. After all, eliminating unnecessary trips to the bank while gaining instant access to funds on payday are major pluses. But aside from convenience, there are...

What Is a Payroll Tax Lookback Period?

In general, the Internal Revenue Services defines a “lookback period” as the amount of time it can use to determine if the taxes you filed and paid are correct. These periods aren’t always the same — in fact, different types of lookback periods...

Tips to Establish Employee Salary Ranges

As an employer, it’s critical that you establish a salary pay scale that defines how you pay employees of various categories and seniority levels. Moreover, it’s also vital that you can explain the reasoning behind your pay structure in case any job candidate,...