Using Salary History to Set Pay: Courts Send Mixed Signals
You don’t have to work in HR to know that salary is a delicate subject. Just ask an acquaintance, even a close friend, how much they make a year, and watch an eyebrow go up. When it comes to employees working at the same company, or doing the same job, the situation...
Expanded Educational Assistance Programs Would Offer New Recruiting Tool
If your company is having trouble attracting and retaining well-educated employees, take heart. You may soon have another recruiting tool at your disposal, thanks to a bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives last week. The bill, H.R. 795, which has...
Form 5500: New Questions and Small Business Concerns
IRS Form 5500, which reports on employee benefit plans, is undergoing some revisions in coming years. These include some new compliance and oversight questions that definitely do take effect for the 2016 plan year. While many of the larger changes won’t take effect...
Wage and Wage Assignment: Businesses Beware
In consultation on terminations, I am regularly faced with the question, “How much do I need to give this guy?” or worse yet, “When I take away the money for the phone she broke, equipment she lost and the dent she put in the van, she’ll owe us money.” Of course, my...
