Common employer practices result in unpaid work hours which violate the Fair Labor Standards Act - 5 common practices that could lead to trouble in an audit Continue reading
The House early Saturday turned back an effort to suspend a Depression-era law, the Davis Bacon Act, that requires federal contractors to pay locally prevailing wage rates. Continue reading
Employee record keeping requirements must include proper time and payroll records for it's workers. The Fair Labor Standards Act, as well as most state wage and hour laws, are the ones who determine what is or is not "proper". Continue reading
Payroll which involves the payment of Davis Bacon or prevailing wage can be quite complex, especially for non-union or open shop contractor. Continue reading
Taking a Health Insurance credit against the full prevailing wage fringe benefit and reporting it correctly on the Federal WH-347 Certified Payroll Report can be very confusing. Continue reading
This week's eBook provides information on paying and tracking prevailing wage fringe benefits, when you work on a government funded construction project that requires the submission of certified payroll reports. Continue reading
California's prevailing wage laws and certified payroll reporting requirements can be mandated by any of the following agencies or organizations, each with their own unique set of reporting requirements. The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) and the filing of Form A-1-131, Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) and the filing of a modified WH-347 form, the U.S. Department of Labor and the filing of a standard WH-347 Form, Electronic filing requirements through the use of LCPtracker, TRS Consultants, and/or Elation Systems, Inc. D-BAS Labor Compliance Software, Additional "paper filing requirements" by Labor Compliance Organizations, such as, Golden State Labor Compliance, LLC or CalLCP. Continue reading
In recent months, I have repeatedly seen posts from QuickBooks users on the Intuit Community Forums asking how the fringe benefit rate is calculated and then displayed on the Certified Payroll Report in Excel, which is now a standard function of QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise when used in conjunction with Enhanced Payroll, and I really haven’t seen any good responses. Continue reading
How can I change the hourly wage for employees (and their OT rates) in the middle of a pay week? I have 54 union employees that I have to do this for due to a pay scale increase. Continue reading
Bacon, a former banker, explained the need for the law when he detailed for his legislative colleagues how an out-of-state construction firm paying extremely low wages transported thousands of unskilled workers hundreds of miles to toil on a public project in New York - “They were herded onto this job, they were housed in shacks, they were paid a very low wage, and ... Continue reading
