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Defenses up: It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month

BMT Office Administration

However, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration and the Government Accountability Office think the IRS can do better. The IRS should: Improve the maintenance of a comprehensive and accurate inventory of its information systems. Fix flaws and patch systems on a timely basis.

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What is a PEO?

Insperity

This allows the PEO to handle functions such as payroll, benefits, tax remittance and related government filings. As the co-employer, the PEO takes on certain, specific employer obligations, as set forth in your service agreement. One-stop shop. Payroll processing. HR administration.

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Manage up to your boss – your team will thank you for it

Insperity

Your external customers are, of course: Your company’s actual customers Vendors Partners Government Media. These are valuable relationships that require care and maintenance on your part to be successful at your job and represent your company well. We all have external and internal customers at work.

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Business owner beware: FLSA compliance and personal liability

Insperity

In fact, when considering lawsuits about back wages, the federal government has the authority to deem a business owner an “employer” if certain criteria are present under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Control or maintenance of employment records. Authority to hire and fire employees.

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Wellbeing and flexibility are the keys to workplace success

Workplace Insight

Alongside appetite for support for long-term health and for greater flexibility, it suggests that business leaders want government support to create the conditions needed to attract, train and retain age-diverse talent and experience – through tax benefits or other financial incentives.

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Chance to retrofit offices is going begging, report claims

Workplace Insight

Firstly, through missing the “easy wins” –low cost, low disruption measures that reduce energy consumption – and secondly, through missing key “trigger points” in lease and maintenance cycles that facilitate easier, more efficient retrofit.

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5 HR Responsibilities You Didn’t Get to Today

Insperity

The number of employment-related government regulations has doubled since the 1980s , and as a business owner, you have to give constant attention to staying compliant in order to steer clear of business-crippling fines and lawsuits. Complying with federal, state and local employment laws and regulations.

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