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Don't HR Alone — 200 episodes
How We Saved $130,000 in Workers’ Comp Without Changing Carriers
New No Tax Rules for Tips & Overtime: What Employers Must Know NOW
Why ‘Culture Fit’ Is Killing Your Team — And What to Do Instead
Stop Losing Your Best People — Build Incentive Compensation Plans That RETAIN Top Talent
Who to Hire Next: 4 Steps to Grow Without Burnout
The Onboarding Mistakes That Make New Hires Quit
How to Write a Job Description That Actually Works
No One’s Applying to Your Job Ad? Fix It Fast with This 8-Step Framework
You're Wasting Thousands on Benefits — Here's How to Fix It
The #1 Legal Risk You're Ignoring: Retaliation at Work
Fired an Employee? They Might Still Get Unemployment
Got Written Up at Work? Here’s EXACTLY What to Do Next
At-Will Employment EXPLAINED: How to Fire Without Getting Sued
ACA Penalties: The IRS Fine That Could Bankrupt Your Business
When to Hire Employees (Without Overspending): Profit First Hiring Strategies with Michelle Scribner
ACA Reporting 2025: IRS Just Made It EASIER (Save Time, Cut Costs, Avoid Penalties)
When Your Job Becomes Your Identity: The Hidden Danger of Career Enmeshment
Building Workplace Trust: Why Employees Leave & How to Keep Them!
Toxic Workplace Gossip? FIX It Before It's Too Late!
New York Employees Can Now Claim Workers Comp for Workplace Stress! Are You Ready?
ICE Audits Are Surging – Are Your I-9s Ready?
STOP Hiring the Wrong People! Learn the Secret to Building a Dream Team
The Secret to Scaling Without Burning Out: $10,000 an Hour Work & A-Player Hiring
Why MOST Performance Improvement Plans FAIL Completely
Drive Employee Engagement in a Multi-Generational Team – Generational Differences In The Workplace
Employee Work Permit Expired Before Its Renewal? USCIS Extends Form I-9 Verification
Fix Employee Attendance Issues: HR Strategies for Accountability & Empathy (Rhamy Alejeal)
Save Money on Taxes – 831(b) Plans for Small Businesses (Rhamy Alejeal & Van Carlson)
Missouri Employers MUST Know: Proposition A’s New Sick Leave Law for 2025 Explained
Court Strikes Down 2024 Overtime Rule: What Employers MUST Do Now
Build a PROFITABLE Business: A Profit First Conversation with Ron Saharyan
Variable Hour Employee Health Insurance Changes: What This Means for Business Owners
Why Your Paycheck Feels Smaller: Avoid Tax Season Surprises – IRS Withholding Calc Help
FLSA Compliance for Inside Sales Reps: Avoid Misclassification & Overtime Penalties
FLSA 2025 Salary Threshold Update: Are You Ready for the January 1st Increase?
Employee Refusing to Sign a Write-Up? Here’s What You Need To Know!
Noncompete Ban Blocked — What do I do now?
The Secret Weapon for Managing Employee Social Media
Non-Compete Clauses BANNED?! How to Protect Your Business (After the FTC Ruling)
FLSA Overtime Exemptions: Big Changes Coming for Salaried Employees
Performance Punishment: The Unseen Side of Success
Cal/OSHA’s New Workplace Violence Prevention Plan: What You Need to Know
Is Your Boss Pushing You Out? Unveiling the Truth About Constructive Discharge
Demotion: When It Hurts and When It Works
How to choose: Employee, Independent Contractor, or Both?
The Art of Strategic Annual Raise Planning
How to Create an Incentive Compensation Program That Works
Employer didn’t withhold enough Federal Income Tax
Crucial FLSA Update: Independent Contractor vs. Employee Classification Final Rule
1099 Contractor to W2 Employee: Misclassification of Employees FIXED
Are You Choosing the Right Safe Harbor Match for Your 401(k)? Find Out Now!
No Call, No Show: Did they Quit? Or are they Fired?
How to Identify Potential Leaders
IRS 2024 ACA Affordability Threshold Announcement
How to Resolve Employee Conflict Like a Pro?
The Power of Appreciation: Boosting Employee Morale through Recognition
Can An Employee Who Claims to Have COVID-19 and Self-Quarantines But Refuses to Get Tested Still Be Paid?
What Do I Do If An Employee Won’t Let Me Take Their Temperature?
Can I Ask An Employee if They Have Family Who Has COVID-19?
Big Changes in California Family Leave, 12 weeks leave!
How Can Employers Avoid Putting Employees At Risk of Getting Sick with COVID-19
Which Employees Are Exempt from Minimum Wage and Overtime Requirements?
Should I Pay My Employees a Flat Rate by Budget or by Actual Hours Worked?
What Do I Do If A Customer Won’t Wear a Mask?
Do I Have to Reimburse My Employees for Personal Auto Use?
Can I Pay My Commercial Drivers Commission Only?
How Should Employers Deal with Employees Suffering from Opioid Addiction?
How Can Employers Correctly Track Paid Hours for Hourly Employees?
When and Why Would You Use a Performance Improvement Plan?
Can My Employer Keep Me Past City Curfew?
Can I Force an Employee to Sign a Non-compete?
Post Accident Drug Testing, and Why Handbooks are HARD!
What Are the Law Updates for Employers in August 2020? Part 3
What Are the Law Updates for Employers in August 2020? Part 2
What Are the Law Updates for Employers in August 2020? Part 1
What Do Employers Need to Know About COVID-19 Liability?
How Many Businesses Were Prosecuted by the DOL Last Month for Primary Violations?
How Does President Trump’s New Executive Order Affect H-1B Visas?
How Many People Will Work From Home in 2021? When Will We End the Layoffs?
California SUES Uber and Lyft for Wage Theft!
Does the Trump Executive Order Mean I Can Stop Withholding Employee Tax Payments?
Q&A: Harassment in the Workplace
How Do You Determine Whether an Employee Qualifies for Exemption?
How Do You Qualify for the Computer Employee, Outside Sales Employee, or Highly-Compensated Worker Exemption?
How Do You Qualify for the Professional Employee Exemption?
How Do You Qualify for the Administrative Employee Exemption?
How Should I Decide Whether to Pay a Salary or an Hourly Wage?
How Can You Tell Whether a Worker is an Employee or an Independent Contractor?
What is in the New Q&A Released by the Department of Labor on COVID-19?
What Are the Changes to the Affordable Care Act in 2020?
1099 NEC – What is it, and why is the 1099Misc Dead?
Independent Contractor vs EE, How Can I Tell?
People Processes Interviews: How to Set and Measure Short and Long-Term Company Goals in Times of Uncertainty with Kathy Bowman Atkins
People Processes Interviews: How to Prevent Bad Moments from Turning Into a Bad Day with Michael O’Brien
People Processes Interviews: How to Find the Right Team Members for Your Organization Amid Trying Times with Ira Wolfe
People Processes Interviews: How to Become a Better Leader by Being Inwardly Sound and Others-Focused with Tim Spiker
People Processes Interviews: How One-On-Ones Managed via a CRM Exponentially Increases Productivity
PPP Forgiveness New App Walkthrough
Transgender Rights, ACA Section 1557
OSHA Strikes Back
New PPP “EZ” Forgiveness Application
People Processes Interviews: The Benefits and How-Tos of Hiring Filipino VAs with OnlineJobs.ph founder John Jonas
Many states have made laws that PRESUME COVID-19 happened at work
PPP Loan Forgiveness Application
People Processes Interviews: David Veech
People Processes Interviews: Cindy Ogden
People Processes Interviews: James Sinclair
Checklist to Get Ready to Reopen
Common Mistakes with COVID that have already caused lawsuits
Unemployment Vs Furlough
Unemployment and the PPP
People Processes Interviews: Rocky Romanella
People Processes Interviews: Ralph Peterson
People Processes Interviews: Kris Plachy
People Processes Interviews: Amber Hurdle
COVID 19 Q&A PT 6: Am I liable if my employee gets sick with Coronavirus?
COVID 19 Q&A PT 5: Does our group health insurance cover Coronavirus?
COVID 19 Q&A PT 4: If I layoff an employee, do I have to pay this new sick leave?
People Processes Interviews: Bill Coletti Kith
COVID 19 Q&A PT 3: Can an employee refuse to come to work because of fear of Coronavirus?
COVID 19 Q&A PT 2: I think an employee may be sick… what do I do?
COVID 19 Q&A PT 1: Should we send everyone to work from home with this Coronavirus?
New Overtime Guidance explains Lump Sum Bonuses!
SECURE Act changes a LOT about 401k plans!
March 8 (Spring Forward) CAN totally screw up your pay!
2020 is weird, you may way overpay your employees!
Understanding Mileage Reimbursement in 2020
The Battle Update: What is going on with the ACA?
People Processes Interviews: Jacqueline Throop-Robinson
People Process Interviews: Sue Salvemini
People Process Interviews: Thomas Veeman
People Process Interviews: Linda Brown
People Process Interviews: Lee Caraher
People Process Interviews: Jacob Baddsgaard
Q&A: Does Workers Comp Count against FMLA?
Do you have a Performance Based Bonus Plan?
People Process Interviews: Angela Lauria
New Trump Order means Insurance has to tell you how much things cost?
When to start using the 2020 W4
New FLSA Standards are not enough for Washington!
People Process Interviews: Tomas Keenan
Trump’s Executive Order promotes price transparency, but lacks detail
All the minimum wage increases in the next year
People Processes Interviews: Alison Colley
People Process Interviews: Nathan Hirsch
People Processes Interviews: Alicia Dunams
DEEP DIVE! New 4 Factor Test for Joint Employment
Survey reveals employees’ major financial stressors, millennials’ interest in gig work
CMS Extends Small Group Transitional Relief Policies through 2020
Q&A: Do adoption assistance programs need to be in writing?
Q&A: Considering ADA when denying a promotion
Q&A: Are baseball tickets, hot dogs, drinks purchased for a client deductible under new tax law?
HR Update: NJ Paid Family Leave, Employer CHIP Notice, Min Wages, and Workplace Violence
Q&A: Flu and the FMLA
Interview: Ronit Enos – Salon Cadence
Interview: Erin Longmoon – Zephyr Recruiting
All the Minimum Wage increases, by state for Jan 1 2019!
How to Have a Productive Exit Interview
Do You Have Mixed Emotions about Open Enrollment?
The Four Measurements of an HR System that Works
Q&A: Porn on an employees computer?
Five Common Onboarding Issues and How to Avoid Them
Q&A: OSHA 300 for Temporary Workers
Why Too Many HR Departments are Unproductive
Q&A: Required by law to have a compliance officer?
Why You Should Consider Timekeeping for Your Salaried Employees
Q&A: Overtime pay for hourly bonuses
How to Have a Productive Exit Interview
Q&A: Does a pregnant worker denied starting a job, when baby is due, have a plausible claim of discrimination?
While Americans have mixed views of unions, public sector organizing suffers setback
CareerBuilder’s midyear job forecast shows tough hiring environment for employers is paying off for job seekers
Temecula nail salon cited $1.2 million for misclassification and wage theft of 36 workers
House lawmakers introduce bill to require E-Verify use
U.S. employers eye improvements to compensation programs
EHB, “minimum value” nixed despite concerns for AHP’s
EEOC—Fifty years after the ADEA, agency reports on the state of older workers and bias
SHRM survey finds uptick in health and wellness offerings
6 Questions on Dependent Care Spending Accounts
Too few managers believe key performance indicators align with organization’s strategic objectives
Whole benefits package crucial in competitive labor market
Compensation Changes – Inflation Up, Unemployement Down, Wages Stable
FORM I-9—Increased federal enforcement requires proactive measures
How to calculate if you are an Applicable Large Employer under the ACA
Majority of working parents claim they are able to ‘have it all’
Benchmark: Employer Costs for Employee Compensation
New Supreme Court Ruling Affects Arbitration Agreements
New NLRB memo talks permissible vs. impermissible handbook rules
No more tax deductions for un-reimbursed business travel!
Special Notice: TN Employers – Unemployment Insurance
12 Employee Company hit with $550,000 in penalties for misclassifying interns!
People Processes: Best Practices for pay equity, and I-9’s
People Processes: Investing in Benefits Technology, Professionals can’t unplug
People Processes Q&A: FMLA part time, Pet Bereavement, and Garnishments
People Processes: Open Workspaces, Short Term Incentives, and Background Checks
People Processes: Deep Dive into Mental Health Parity and Autism Diagnosis
People Processes: Do we have to cover gender reassignment? A Deep Dive into Gender Identity Discrimination
Q&A: Six Tips to Head off Hiring Headaches, and Employee Fatality at Work
People Processes: Q&A – Group Retirement, and Dramatic Changes in Appearance
People Processes: Compliance Update May 7
People Processes: Deep Dive into Non-Compete Agreements