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HR News Weekly |
Tax Breaks Under HIRE Act May Extend Another Six Months
If Congess approves the proposed legislation, the tax benefits for hiring unemployed workers under the HIRE Act will be extended by six months. These benefits include a 6.2% payroll tax incentive for unemployed workers hired from February 3, 2010, to January 1, 2011, and a $1,000 general business tax credit for each worker who stays with your company for at least one year.
The HIRE Now Tax Cut Extension of 2010 would allow employers hiring qualified employees from July 22, 2010, through June 30, 2011, to tap into the HIRE ACT benefits for an additional six months. The hope is that the legislation will advance the nation’s economic recovery by trimming the costs associated with hiring. Claim your payroll tax exemption under the new HIRE Act with form W-11.
We will continue to monitor the situation, so check back here for updates.
Employers Beware: Wage and Hour Claims Continue to Rise
According to a 2010 survey of more than 1,800 legal and HR professionals, one-third of respondents were hit with a wage and hour claim in the past year. At the same time, more than half of respondents shared that their organization has increased spending for wage and hour compliance.
Shanti Atkins, the President and CEO of ELT, the workplace compliance training company that conducted the survey, explains the dramatic rise in claims: “Employers are being hit from two sides. On one, there is a better funded, more fully staffed Dept. of Labor (DOL) that has made fighting wage theft one of its key priorities. On the other side are aggressive plaintiff law firms that literally salivate at these easy-to-identify and easy-to-win, lucrative class actions.”
To complicate matters further, the DOL reports that more than 80% of employers are out of compliance with federal and state wage and hour laws! The top Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations that get employers in trouble are:
- Misclassifying a non-exempt employee (eligible for overtime) as salaried/exempt
- Not paying overtime to non-exempt employees for all hours worked, including unauthorized overtime
- Making improper salary deductions from exempt and non-exempt employees
Go here for clear guidelines on how to comply with FLSA regulations – and here for practical forms and recordkeeping tools to keep you on track.
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