As payroll management professionals it is easy to lose sight of what employees truly value from their workplace. And that includes your payroll process.
Each year, National Payroll Week is marked with a survey that seeks to capture this fact. The American Payroll Association founded National Payroll Week in 1996. Last year, the survey managed to capture the responses of over 30,000 American workers on a variety of payroll and benefit related questions.
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Topics:
Payroll,
payroll management,
time and attendance,
employee time clocks,
HR best practices,
payroll process
The tasks of time and attendance for payroll management can be a real headache. Paperwork, regulatory demands, and human error create problems for what should be a simple and efficient process. But for many businesses it's not.
When a business is first starting out this is probably a manual process and it works okay when there are still only a few employees. But as the business grows and employees are added, the manual methods of recording, tracking, and reporting time and attendance can rapidly become overwhelming.
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Topics:
Payroll,
Green Payroll,
time and attendance,
Automated Timekeeping Systems,
Time Clock Software,
online payroll
Businesses using a traditional time clock and time cards instead of time clock software spend an inordinate amount of time working with and processing time cards. Between the sorting and verifying of hours on each card need, there are untold hours taken up every pay period with cards that must be verified in order to maintain accurate records.
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Topics:
Green Payroll,
time and attendance,
employee time clocks,
Automated Timekeeping Systems,
Time Clock Software
The proposed Department of Labor (DOL) overtime rule update is nearing publication, but in the meantime, it is facing resistance from business lobbies and some congressional opposition.
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Topics:
payroll management,
time and attendance,
HR compliance,
overtime pay,
employee classification,
payroll compliance
Employee classification has become increasingly risky for businesses. Incorrectly classifying employees as independent contractors can jeopardize employers and expose them to legal actions and liabilities.
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Topics:
payroll management,
time and attendance,
independent contractors,
HR compliance,
employee classification