A recent survey by SurePayroll found that salaries paid to employees of small U.S. businesses increased for the tenth straight month in June while hiring picked up. The average small business salary across the country now stands at an annualized rate of $30,328. Levels that have not been seen since June 2004. Salaries were up for the year-to-date in all…
Once a small business makes a decision to purchase a software tool, especially financial software, it should consider the overall cost of acquiring the tool, and not cost of purchase alone. Any software tool implementation demands many costing heads namely purchase cost, training cost, added hardware purchase, downtime costs and upgrade costs. Of these, initial purchase costs may be the…
In 2005, the Equal Employment Opportunities commission (EEOC) reported 46 complaints by employees regarding ADA violations. That same year, the EEOC also reported that $2.0M in benefits based on direct suits and interventions were paid out to employees. In the grand scheme of things, this may not seem like a large number to you, but if you are a small…
Large business organizations have one basic advantage not enjoyed by small business owners – scale of implementation. Large organizations can afford to evaluate all the software tools available in the market ‘irrespective of cost’. Small business owners have this constraint – they would like to have all the features of a financial software minus the huge cost involved. Any small…
The U.S. Department of Labor recently wrote an opinion letter addressing the issue of whether or not an employer could impose a fine on exempt employees who damage or lose equipment used in performing their jobs, such as laptop computers, blackberrys, or cellular telephones? Their answer? An employer can legally require deductions from the wages of its nonexempt employees for…
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