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What You Need to Know About the FLSA
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ensures that all employees receive the compensation they are entitled to on the job. As an employer, it is your responsibility to ensure that you are compliant with the [...]
Employee Time Tracking Keeps Your Business on Track
Remote work is nothing new. What is new is that a tremendous number of companies that previously had a few remote workers suddenly have entire teams working from home. While most employees will adjust, some [...]
Keeping Your Remote Employees Together When They’re Apart
Businesses are evolving quickly as COVID-19 causes disruptions and delays across the world. While technology can make it possible to get the work done that needs to be done, it comes with a significant downside. [...]
What Your Company Should Know About Workplace Childcare
It has always been a challenge for parents to find a balance between work and home. In an era when most parents have full-time jobs, companies that offer workplace childcare have an advantage. These companies [...]
Keeping Your Office Clean (and Safe) for Workers
Business as usual isn't quite as usual as it was just a few weeks ago. As COVID-19 spreads across the country, there are steps your business should take to protect your workers and customers from [...]
HR Operations 101: Managing Remote Employees
As COVID-19 spreads across the United States, it is causing significant disruptions to businesses and the economy. Many cities and states are implementing strict self-quarantine policies. This is resulting in a considerable increase in the [...]
Maintaining Morale in Turbulent Times
A quick glance at the headlines is all it takes to see that your employees need reliable leadership more than at any time in recent history. Whether it's news of sinking stock prices, layoffs, or [...]
Continuing Education Courses Build Strong Businesses
For many industries, the 21st-century business environment is very much on shifting sands. As technologies evolve, trade routes open, regulations rise, and fall, one thing remains constant; the need to maintain an ever-increasing set of [...]
Team Building Activities That Make an Impact
Team building activities are a great way to bring employees together. They sharpen problem-solving skills, hone communication, and create bonds between personnel that can help your organization achieve your goals. The following are some quick [...]
Ways to Streamline Travel Reimbursement for Employees
Travel does more than generate carbon emissions; it creates plenty of paperwork that you need to process and manage correctly. If you find yourself drowning in a sea of receipts and red tape, it is [...]
Key Issues to Negotiate When Letting an Employee Go
There are many elements beyond a final paycheck that go into a robust severance package. When you are letting an employee go, making sure that everything falls into place, the way it needs to is [...]
Helping Employees Maximize Their HSA Benefits
Healthcare is expensive, but HSAs help take some of the stings out of buying prescription medications, putting braces on the kids, and doctor's visits throughout the year. Many employees don't fully understand how to maximize [...]
Help Employees Profit on Pension Plans & Retirement Benefits
Defined pension plans provide a stable and steady source of income for retirees. Whether your employees are planning to retire soon, or decades down the road, it is your job to make sure they have [...]
Severance & Separation: What Employers Can & Need to Do
Whether because your company is going through layoffs, or the time has come to let an employee go their way, the day will come when you need to understand how to put together a severance [...]
Clearing the Air When Toxic Behaviors Pollute the Office
Healthy office culture is as important as the skills, experience, and talents your employees bring to your business. Toxic behaviors and bad attitudes pollute the air. In turn, this diminishes productivity and leads to high-turnover. [...]
The Benefits an HR Specialist Brings to Your Business
Running a business is no easy task. Managing client needs, meeting production schedules, and staying one step ahead of the competition takes most of your time. It also means you have less time to focus [...]
The Trick to Recruiting Top Talent to Your Team
Hiring top talent is the best way to grow your business. This mantra holds whether you need a graphic designer, dental assistant, computer specialist, or administrative aide. When it comes to recruiting top talent, the [...]
Are You Ready for 2020’s New Overtime Rules?
The new year means new overtime rules. It is essential to plan for these. Otherwise, you could find yourself short-staffed in the coming year. Or worse, you could end up on the wrong side of [...]
Turn Back the Clock on Time Thieves
Bandits don't always wear ski masks and sunglasses. Some wear suits and ties while some wear uniforms and badges. Time thieves are bandits who show up to work like everyone else and flash a smile [...]
Performance Reviews Are Crucial for Improving Your Business
Successful companies help employees excel at their jobs. Annual performance reviews are a tool most companies use to assess an employee's performance. However, you can also use this tool to evaluate your performance as an [...]
Making It Through the Last Minutes of Benefits Enrollment
It is somewhat ironic that many employees would rather have a root canal than go over the details of their health insurance policies. Sorting through the details of coverage and co-pays, premiums and prescription plans [...]
Using Flex Spending Accounts to Get Healthy and Stay Healthy
Healthcare Flexible Spending Accounts (HFSA's) and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts (DCFSA's) make it easier for your employees to maintain their health and take care of family members. Flex spending is a valuable benefit that [...]
Is Your Business ADA Compliant?
Nearly 30 years have passed since the Americans with Disabilities Act became law in July 1990. The ADA has made it possible for millions of Americans living with a disability to perform their jobs and [...]
Tax Updates for 2020
There are a number of significant tax updates that you should know about. Establishing a clear picture of these updates that are just over the horizon will give you 20/20 insight into the questions your [...]
Be Prepared for 2020 W4 Changes
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act became law in December 2017. The law involves significant changes to the W4 that employers must comply with at the start of 2020. Of particular note, the TCJA significantly changes the [...]
Covering the Essentials in Your Employee Handbook
The employee handbook is the linchpin that keeps your business together. It provides a framework of polices and practices that will shape your company's future. Even so, many employers don't give this handy guide the [...]
What Employers Need to Know About Paternity Leave
Paternity leave is not common in the United States. While the FMLA does provide some leave for both fathers and mothers, there are few states that offer fathers this benefit. However, it is a benefit [...]
Why Holiday Pay Matters to Your Employees (and Business)
The holiday season is right around the corner and your business is gearing up to meet the demands of your customers. Before the ghosts, turkeys, and tiny reindeer come to town, it's crucial to understand [...]
5 Tips for Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
Employers have a responsibility to protect workers from sexual harassment in the workplace. It is incumbent on employers to address this topic with all employees and to implement policies that deter the behavior. However, even [...]
Reaping the Rewards of Enterprise Class Payroll Software
Payroll is one of the most important chores any business has to address. Employees depend on it being on time, every time. Using enterprise class payroll software helps your business stay on top of the [...]
Avoid Costly Mistakes When Outsourcing Payroll
Payroll outsourcing can save your business time and money. Allowing someone else to take care of the bookkeeping frees you up to focus on building your business. However, that is only possible if you choose a [...]
The Biggest Scheduling Errors Restaurant Managers Make
When you own a business with employees, scheduling is incredibly important. You need to know how many employees need to be on the schedule each day and during what hours. Ensuring labor percentages are kept [...]
How Our Services Can Help Your Administration Staff
There are a lot of things to keep track of while running your own business, and one of the most important parts is administration. Administrative service assistants and managers help keep things running smoothly and [...]
Why Benefits Packages Are So Important
To entice top talents to work for your company, you are going to want to offer a really good benefits package for your employees. Nowadays when people are job-hunting, they pay attention to not only [...]
Importance of Health Insurance to Businesses
Health care is a hot topic these days. It’s something that is incredibly important to everyone regardless of who they are or their background. It’s something that provides security in case of a catastrophic medical [...]
The Benefits of Cloud-Based Online Benefits Enrollment
Benefits enrollment, especially during open enrollment, is one of the biggest and often most frustrating projects HR team members and departments undertake every year. This is especially true in large organizations in which HR employees [...]
The Importance of Employee Time Tracking
Thinking of upgrading your employee time clock? At Greenlink Payroll we can help! Keeping track of employees’ time is incredibly important when you own a business. However, we understand that it can be a tricky process as [...]
The Advantages of a Cloud-Based Payroll System
Payroll can be one of the most complex and frustrating aspects of managing a business--but what if there was an easier and more profitable way? Greenlink Payroll offers cloud-based solutions that streamline your processes so you [...]
The Advantages of Human Capital Management Software
No matter what your company sells or what service it provides, undoubtedly the most valuable resource you have is your employees. Your employees spend their days contributing to the overall success of your organization and [...]
Day-to-Day Ideas for Office Team Building
When most companies think of team building, they often think of large planned company retreats at a fun place like an outdoor park. These opportunities give employees the ability to break out of the office [...]
Are Your Employees Taking Their Paid Vacations?
No matter how many vacation days employees get, one week, two or three, there are always employees who will not take a significant portion of their paid vacation time. According to a study by the [...]
Should You Offer Flex Hours to Your Employees?
In today’s modern world, employees value having more options to fit their growing needs, from childcare to work/life balance, and employers are increasingly providing them in order to attract top talent. Flex hours are generally defined [...]
How Sick Days Impact Office Productivity
Sick Days: How to Fill the Ill Sick days are a vital component of office policy in order to ensure the health of an organization. Of course, sick days can also affect office productivity, since employees [...]
Three Tips to Get Compliant with New Overtime Requirements
On May 18, 2016, President Obama announced that the Department of Labor had finalized major changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which also modifies regulations around overtime. The changes are slated to go [...]
4 Benefits of Improving Employee Onboarding
Nearly a quarter of staff turnover happens within six weeks of starting employment, which wastes time and resources. When a new hire starts with your company, this will be his or her first chance to [...]
5 Benefits of Tracking Time and Attendance
As an employer, you have a lot on your plate. Between payroll, interacting with employees, and trying to run the business, you may find yourself stretched thin and not able to commit as much time [...]
Can you prove your ACA compliance?
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) employer mandates and deadlines are putting plenty of fear, worry and doubt into those who must comply with reporting requirements. Applicable Large Employers (ALEs) should be especially aware of their [...]
FLSA lawsuits are on the rise
Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) lawsuits numbered over 7,000 in 2012 alone. Companies such as Walmart, Staples, Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan Chase, Oracle, CVS, Tyson Foods, Lowe’s and AT&T have been subject to significant FLSA [...]
How’s your company’s vision?
Can you see what’s coming for employee health care reporting? The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is burdensome and complex with changes to many different laws or sections of our tax code. With nearly 100 provisions [...]
Six Reasons to use HCM technology
Most human resource professionals are well aware of the Human Capital Management (HCM) movement. The right HCM technology will streamline HR processes and save the company time and money, both of which should be considered [...]
4 tips for impressing new hires on day one
“You never get a second chance to make a (good) first impression” is common advice doled out to job interviewees or new company hires. Companies should also consider this when they contemplate how to help [...]
6 Open Enrollment Items for Your To-do List
When many of us think of fall, our mind wanders to the changing colors on trees, raking leaves and football. Human resource and benefit professionals must have one more thing top of mind–open enrollment. Annually, [...]
