Vision and Mission Engaged Employees

What do your Vision and Mission statements say about your culture?  Is it real? Read more »

Eligibility Requirements for Social Security Programs

United States Social Security is a social insurance program that is funded through payroll taxes called Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA). The main part of the program can be abbreviated as OASDI... Read more »

Five Tips for Information Security during Layoffs

A laid off employee is a tremendous threat to the information of a business. Before any pink slips are handed out make sure your information, both paper and electronic, is secure. The... Read more »

Employers Responsible for Filing W2/W3 Forms

Employers are required to file W-2 Forms (Wage and Tax Statements) for each of their employees. Employees whom have had income, Social Security and Medicare taxes withheld from their pay. A W-3... Read more »

Supreme Court Issues Employer-Friendly ADEA Ruling

June 18, 2209, in a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held that an employee alleging a disparate treatment claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) must prove that age was the... Read more »

Supreme Court Issues Favorable Ruling for White Firefighters in Reverse Discrimination Case

Query: May an employer make a race-based employment decision when it discovers that one of its employment tests or policies has the unintended effect of creating an adverse impact on another racial classification? Read more »

Teamwork Gems Create Startling Results

Every minute of teamwork in the 21st century requires adaptation to each other, to changing conditions, and sometimes to changing goals. The traditional definition of a team, a group of people working together toward... Read more »

The Value of Domestic Partner Benefits in Recruiting and Retaining LGBT Employees

Employers seeking to recruit and retain talented lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender ("LGBT") employees     are increasingly finding that offering domestic partner benefits is a necessary part of their recruiting efforts.  ... Read more »

ADA Amendments Act – EEOC Comments on Proposed Rules

Last September, President George Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) of 2008, which requires courts to interpret the ADA broadly when determining whether an individual has been discriminated against because of a disability. On... Read more »

What’s Happening with Health and Welfare Plans? More than You Might Think . . .

Even before Congress began laboring over the potentially biggest health care legislation in years, employers had – or should have had – plenty of health and welfare plan issues on their agendas for the second... Read more »
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