by Rob Olson | Mar 25, 2019 | Human Resources, Payroll, Time Keeping
In December, The Washington Post reported on an odd, eyebrow-raising phenomenon in the working world: employees are “ghosting” their employers. If you’re unfamiliar with the term, ghosting is an unfortunately common practice in the dating scene. It occurs when someone...
by Rob Olson | Nov 1, 2018 | Human Resources, Payroll, Time Keeping
Here’s a startling statistic: Nearly 70% of managers are uncomfortable communicating with their employees. That number comes from a Harris Poll conducted on behalf of Interact, and it indicates that managers may at times shy away from doing basic...
by Rob Olson | Aug 7, 2018 | Human Resources, Payroll, Time Keeping
Did You Know? Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in 1935 to protect the rights of employees and employers, to encourage collective bargaining, and to limit certain labor and management practices that can harm the general...
by Rob Olson | Aug 1, 2018 | Human Resources, Payroll, Time Keeping
Four Keys to Improving Your Culture In the previous articles of the series on workplace culture, we showed you how to identify and evaluate your culture by examining the rules that govern behavior, the traditions that facilitate interactions, and people...
by Rob Olson | Jul 20, 2018 | Human Resources, Payroll
With medical and recreational marijuana use becoming legal in more states nationwide, you may be wondering what kind of drug-testing policy your business should have. The answer to that question depends on several factors: the types of jobs that are done and the...
by Rob Olson | Jun 26, 2018 | Human Resources, Payroll, Time Keeping
Los Angeles County established a Minimum Wage Ordinance which applies to the unincorporated areas of LA County. Below are the increases: Employers with 26 or more employees must pay their employees no less than the following hourly rates on the following effective...
by Rob Olson | Jun 26, 2018 | Human Resources, Payroll, Time Keeping
In order to be exempt from overtime, your managers need to do more than have “Manager” in their job title. In fact, the act of managing alone is not even enough. When classifying a manager as an exempt employee, you’re usually using what’s called the White Collar...
by Rob Olson | Jun 26, 2018 | Human Resources, Payroll, Time Keeping
We’ve all seen it—one of our employees has a bad cold, maybe even the flu, but they come to work anyway. In some cases, the employee has the option of taking time off, and you’d prefer they do so, but still they show up, putting everyone in the workplace at risk. The...
by Rob Olson | Feb 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
– Apex Payroll, a premier provider of cloud-based payroll and human capital management is excited to announce an integration with TurboTax and ProConnect. This integration enables the automatic import of W-2 information for employees being paid through Apex payroll...
by Rob Olson | Nov 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
What are the new minimum salary levels, and when will they go up next? As of December 1, 2016, most exempt executive, administrative, professional, and computer employees need to be paid at least $913 per week ($47,476 per year). Also as of December 1, employees who...
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