New Ruling Offers Rx for Keeping Health Benefits Tax-Free - Tax-free, employer-provided health benefits are sacrosanct. Employers routinely picked up the full cost until the 1980s, when employees began chipping in a small percentage. Pre-tax contributions into...
Publisher: Payroll Legal Alert     Author: Alexander Hamilton Institute   

Next on the Grill: Compensation Committees - Sure, your co-directors on the audit committee have it tough. But shareholders are also taking aim at the board members who oversee executive compensation.
Publisher: Corporate Board Member     Author: John R. Engen   

Offering Benefits That Retain Employees in a Competitive Marketplace - In today's job market, offering an appealing benefits package can mean the difference between attracting and retaining good employees and losing them to the competition.
Publisher: The Small Business Journal     Author: Art Beroff   

Overtime: Determining an employee's regular rate - Although it is common knowledge that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers to pay one and one-half times an employee’s regular rate for all work performed in excess of 40 hours per week, employers often overlook the proper method for determining this regular rate.
Publisher: The CPA Journal     Author: Jeffrey D. Pollack   

Pensions - When Assets Runneth Over - Companies with overfunded pension plans can use excess assets to benefit employees. But proceed with caution, and manage the surplus to ensure the plan will have adequate assets in the event of a plunge in value.
Publisher: Businessfinancemag.com     Author: Joanne Sammer   

Playing 401(k) Catch-Up - As the new year begins, 401(k) plan sponsors have some important challenges on their to-do lists. They must find ways to calm employees who are rattled by continued stock market volatility and incorporate changes from last year’s tax law into their plan.
Publisher: Businessfinancemag.com     Author: Joanne Sammer   

Pride of Ownership - Employee Stock Option Plans (ESOPs) are a tax beneficial way for entrepreneurial companies to buy out their principal shareholders. Here's how to structure and administer a plan.
Publisher: Businessfinancemag.com     Author: Joanne Sammer   

Retaining Your Valued Employees - With today’s robust economy and record low unemployment, competition remains strong for accounting and financial talent.
Publisher: Strategic Finance Magazine     Author: Max Messmer   

Share Your Worth - Talking Numbers with the CEO - Outsourcing is usually thought of as something HR executives do with functions not directly related to their core mission. But now, increasingly, it is being done to HR departments themselves.
Publisher: HR Magazine     Author: Elizabeth Sheley   

Six great ways to recognize employees - Here are several real-world recognition gestures given high marks by employees on the receiving side.
Publisher: IvySea.com     Author: Jamie Walters