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It’s time to review (or create) your document retention policy

BMT Office Administration

Worried that your company might not have a particular document on hand if the IRS conducted an audit? They create a document retention policy that clarifies what needs to be saved, where, and for how long. Courts and government agencies frown upon individual employees selectively keeping or tossing important documents.

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Employee personnel files — what should and shouldn’t be included

BMT Office Administration

Knowing what to keep and the location of each document is vital to easy retrieval and to maintaining compliance with government and industry regulations. If so, then the document should be included in the employee’s general personnel file.”. Recruiting and screening documents. Termination documentation.

Filing 121
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Employee Files: What to include, what to leave out, and what’s confidential

BMT Office Administration

While it’s clear that you need to keep a separate file for each employee, which documents should you include in it? After all, there are some documents that you’ll need to keep confidential , and there are some that you don’t even need to include in your personnel files.

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Employee Records: End of year review & preparing for next year

BMT Office Administration

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) have also had significant impacts on employee recordkeeping and personnel files — further complicating the issue. Hiring documents. What is employee recordkeeping and why does it matter? Compensation. Post-employment records.

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1099 vs W-2: The difference between employees and contractors

BMT Office Administration

Employees need this document in order to file their personal income taxes each year. 1099 workers also are not generally paid through regular payroll and do not typically have taxes withheld from their checks or deposits. Employers also need to report and deposit payroll taxes to the internal revenue service (IRS) every quarter.

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Stay organized and secure with electronic records management

BMT Office Administration

He put Laura in charge of going through a bunch of drawers with instructions to make folders to organize papers of current worth, box up other documents that somebody might need down the line, and toss insignificant and old material. Fires, floods, and even spilled cups of coffee can render physical copies of documents unreadable.

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Should City Governments and other Businesses look to Virtual Services to Save Money?

Tips From T. Marie

But, he said, the city could use the payroll savings. If your employee or employees are sitting at their computers all day, making and taking phone calls, working on documents, data input and other tasks that are computer based with little to no public interaction in person they are a good candidate for either choice.