By
Nancy Smyth, on April 8th, 2010.
The requirement to pay employees overtime seems simple enough; once a nonexempt employee has worked 40 hours in a single workweek, each additional hour worked MUST be paid at time and one-half the regular rate of pay. Yet, many employers are confused about the mechanics of implementing the law, such as how overtime pay is calculated when a nonexempt employee is paid a salary or works two [Read the full article...]
By
Nancy Smyth, on August 25th, 2009.
In today’s busy workplace business owners and payroll administrators are faced with numerous challenges which cause them to want and need to be able to quickly and accurately enter employee time cards by “crew or group” by “job or project” and by day – because that is how they are done on the jobsite. Because of these situations, they also want software that will automatically calculate and distribute overtime hours worked for all employees on all jobs for any given work week – relieving them of the time-consuming and error-prone process caused by manual calculations and time card entries; this is an area where QuickBooks is lacking in [Read the full article...]
By
Nancy Smyth, on June 19th, 2009.
When a contractor works on Federal and/or state funded construction projects and fails to pay the appropriate “prevailing wages” or overtime to their employees and/or fails to submit the required “certified payroll reports” to the appropriate agencies —- well it’s pretty serious [Read the full article...]