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4 important payroll issues to keep an eye on in 2023

BMT Office Administration

Nevertheless, 2023 is looking like another challenging year for Payroll as we get a few insights into what to expect. Rethinking medical travel benefits for reproductive health care and family planning. At the time, employers were advised to extend medical travel benefits to all employees who needed them. Final e-filing regs.

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

BMT Office Administration

As any human resources professional will attest, managing every employee’s employment life cycle involves a good deal of paperwork. For instance, employers cannot include medical information in an employee’s general personnel file due to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Medical leave of absence requests.

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Generative AI will hollow out many middle class roles over the next decade

Workplace Insight

In at least ten white collar roles, more than 35 percent of tasks could be done by AI, with medical secretaries (41 percent) predicted to be the most impacted. Generative AI will have a much greater impact on white collar roles than blue collar ones over the next 10 years, according to a new report from Pearson.

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

BMT Office Administration

Besides that, your confidential medical records will let you know if any team members have disabilities that you need to consider when planning and assigning tasks. If so, then you’ll definitely want to have the proper documents on-hand to defend your managers. Here’s what you’ll need to include in your confidential employee 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. These documents include payroll records, time cards, pay rate information, and anything else related to payment.

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Stay organized and secure with electronic records management

BMT Office Administration

Like many other workplaces, Laura’s office could benefit considerably from implementing electronic records management (ERM). Such a management system utilizes information technology to organize and store records in electronic form. A properly maintained electronic records management system serves as an efficient one-stop-shop.

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Counting the costs: What government funding for scientific research will cover?

The Small Business Blog

And if you’re working in scientific, technological, medical or engineering research, the government can end up giving you quite a lot of money, through a scheme called research and development tax credits. It can also include the proportion of supervisors’ and managers’ time spent overseeing work on the project.

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