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

BMT Office Administration

Agreements related to the use of a company car or business credit card. Records relating to promotion, demotion, transfer, or layoff. Payroll records for money or pay-related information such as: Timesheets. Payroll deduction forms. You must keep a completed Form I-9 on file for each employee on your payroll.

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

BMT Office Administration

Confidential documents include medical files, tax documents, employee benefits , payroll records, and more. In particular, ADA mandates that all medical files must be kept confidential, and FLSA states that you must retain all payroll records for at least three years. Instead, you need to keep them in a separate database.

Filing 52
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How to Launch (and Maintain) a Successful E-Commerce Business

Success

When selecting a platform , you’ll want to ask: What are the monthly subscription fees and credit card processing fees? Joint ventures : One of my favorite strategies, this involves partnering with another outfit that already has a preexisting audience in order to promote yourself. How user-friendly is the back-end?