Effective January 1, 2020, all new employees were required to complete the redesigned W-4 which was intended to be easier for employees to fill out and to accurately tell their employers how much federal income tax they want withheld from…
WI PAY TIP OF THE DAY – FLSA (Fair Labor Standards Act)
The Fair Labor Standards Act was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1938. While there have been some changes since then, the bulk of the Act is still in effect today. One area that is being debated…
WI PAY TIP OF THE DAY – Help Wanted
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rates in the United States vary from a low in South Dakota and Utah of 3.3% to a high in California of 9.3% and Hawaii of 10.3%. To put things…
WI PAY TIP OF THE DAY – Record Keeping
In the old days, record keeping on behalf of our payroll clients consisted of massive quantities of paper, filed alphabetically by client by year. We would spend the first weekend in February moving files out of current year files…
WI PAY TIP OF THE DAY – Gratitude Attitude
Perhaps one of the most talked about self-help topics is a person’s attitude. How does one see the world – glass half empty or half full? Do you wake up knowing you can tackle the world, or be tackled by…
WI PAY TIP OF THE DAY – All Hallows’ Eve
All Hallows’ Eve falls on October 31, the day before All Hallows’ Day – also known as All Saints day. The name comes from Old English “hallowed” meaning holy or sanctified and is now usually the more familiar Halloween, While…
WI PAY TIP OF THE DAY – Daylight Savings
The idea of daylight savings was that of Benjamin Franklin during his time as an American delegate in Paris in 1784. Some of Franklin ‘s friends, inventors of a new kid of oil lamp, were so taken by the scheme…
WI PAY TIP OF THE DAY – Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)
2020 certainly is BOOSheet! COVID, social distancing, the elections, the crazy weather, wildfires, and whatever else 2020 has thrown our way certainly has given us an opportunity to rise above our situations. More than once, we have uttered the phrase…
WI PAY TIP OF THE DAY – We’re All In Small Business Grants
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) is opening up a second phase of We’re All In Small Business Grants, making available an additional $50 million of federal CARES Act funding to Wisconsin businesses hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re All…
WI PAY TIP OF THE DAY – Columbus Day – Now known as Indigenous Peoples’ Day??
We just received notification from our ACH provider that no ACHes will go through on Monday, October 12, 2020 for Native American Day. Native American Day?? How did we miss that? Perhaps it was because we were amid our…