Rules and Regulations

Are Your Documentation Ducks in a Row?

For some, the art of documentation can be a tiresome, tedious, and boring task. And while that may be a sometimes-accurate description,...

Employer's Tax Liability with Remote and Work-From-Home Employees

In the podcast episode titled "Employer's Tax Liability with Remote and Work-From-Home Employees," Deanna Baumgardner, the owner of...

Form I9 Update & Verification Process

The new Form I-9 update and option for remote document examination is here, finally! Before we get into what all of this means, every...

End of the COVID Pandemic Declarations Impact on Small Businesses

March 2020 is when the world as we knew it, changed. The Federal Government declared a national pandemic that altered not only the way...

Protections for Pregnant and Nursing Mothers in the Workplace

The Biden administration recently enacted new protections for pregnant and nursing mothers in the workplace. Although there are already...

Floating holiday definition and meaning

Our very own, Ellen Slane was featured again but this time on the HR resource website On Pay. A floating holiday is flexible paid time...

FEATURE: As more states require pay transparency, here’s how to stay ahead of the game.

Pay Transparency Laws: These laws will continue to gain ground across more and more states through 2023 and beyond.

Legos & HR

You may have read the title and thought, “Legos and HR? What is this about, what is the correlation?” Just stick with us and we’ll show...

HR This Not That! Podcast

HR This, not that means we will take a look at some workplace issues, policies or practices that may be antiquated or are done because...

Work and Roam

Do you really know where employees are when they are working? A week or two in Colorado, staying with family in Texas for a couple of...

COVID Leave Pay Has Expired…. Among Other Federal and State Funded Benefits

You might remember the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) that was enacted in April of 2020 that required companies with...

Vaccine Mandates for 100 or More Employee Companies

**Note: The information in this post is as of September 10, 2021 and will continue to develop over the next couple of weeks and there...

To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate?

“To vaccinate or not to vaccinate? That is the question…” There is so much conflicting information circulating these days about whether...

Heading Back to the Office 2.0

Remember back in June/July 2020 when we had high hopes of the pandemic being an in and out kind of a thing, and companies would start...

What the American Rescue Plan Act Means for your Small Business

The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) was enacted on March 11, 2021 as part of a plan by the Biden Administration to combat the economic...

HR and Employment Law Changes to Expect in 2021

As if we didn’t have enough on-the-fly change in 2020, with every new year comes even more new and changing employment regulation for...

Paid Time Off Strategies for 2021

Flexible, supportive, compliant. When it comes to defining the paid time off policies for employees, they should be flexible, supportive,...

Things to re-evaluate in 2021

It goes without saying that 2020 has been quite a year and it has revealed a lot of things that require serious attention across...

Wage and Hour Compliance in a Remote Work Environment

Wage and Hour compliance under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) can sometimes get sticky and is often difficult for small businesses...

Benefits of Paid Sick Leave

COVID-19 has shown us the need for a work environment that supports time off and that we should provide paid sick leave to our employees....