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Pre-boarding Can Set Up New Hires For Lasting Success

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Employers may be missing a crucial step when onboarding a new worker: the pre-boarding process. . Pre-boarding can focus on building engagement, meeting the new team, having the new hire complete payroll forms, figuring out a start date, scheduling a tour of the workspace, etc. .

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

BMT Office Administration

Setting up employee personnel files is an important part of the recordkeeping process. Health insurance forms. Also, many employers who provide group health plans are subject to privacy obligations under the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Pay authorization forms.

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Benefits of outsourcing HR for small businesses

BMT Office Administration

Most small businesses focus on their product/service team and sales staff in the early years, but someone still needs to run payroll and handle onboarding for new hires. This includes things like payroll administration, employee benefits , HR compliance, and talent acquisition.

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Sorting out taxes and reporting for a deceased employee

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While fortunately a rare circumstance, dealing with payroll for a recently deceased employee can be tricky. Hopefully this isn’t an issue that comes up for your payroll department often, but it’s important to know what to do, and get it right, in the event that it does happen. What pay is taxable?

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

BMT Office Administration

That’s not even mentioning all the paperwork involved in the onboarding process, such as employee handbooks , contact information, and direct deposit/banking information — just to name a few. Besides the EEOC, the IRS also has requirements for employee documents, including which forms you need to have for each employee, such as W-4s.

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

BMT Office Administration

Forms such as IRS Form W-2 and IRS Form 1099 need to be sent out by the end of January. Both forms provide end-of-year compensation information that employees and contractors need for tax purposes. A W-2 is a tax form that businesses send to their employees as well as the government. What is a W-2? What is a 1099?

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Ensuring payroll compliance in 2024: What’s new?

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Maintaining payroll compliance is a must for accounting departments, but it’s often easier said than done. That’s especially true whenever new changes come about, and 2023 was a year rife with new payroll regulations, trends, and initiatives. From the implementation of SECURE 2.0 From the implementation of SECURE 2.0

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