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What Is Wage Garnishment And How Does It Work?

HR Tech Girl

Wage garnishments are an important part of payroll for the organization as mistakes can have costly legal consequences. Learn how to navigate wage garnishment and ensure your practices are compliant with federal and state standards. The post What Is Wage Garnishment And How Does It Work?

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What is wage garnishment?

FingerCheck

And what does it mean for your small business? Did you know that 7% of US employees have had their wages garnished? This may seem awkward, but there are circumstances under which the court may require you to garnish your employee’s wages. What Is Wage Garnishment? Sign up today.

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Strategic Compliance: Wage Garnishment Risk Avoidance

HR Bartender

Some people might look at the title of today’s article and say, “Wage garnishments? Payroll departments do handle the processing of wage garnishments. But make no mistake, when employees have a question about their paycheck, including deductions like a wage garnishment, the first place they often go is HR.

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What is employee time clock software?

Homebase

What is time clock software? What type of companies use employee time clocks? Ensure compliance with local labor laws You don’t want to be caught accidentally garnishing wages. Utilizing time tracking software that monitors hourly wage laws helps ensure that you’re in constant compliance with your local labor laws.

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Court-ordered employee wage garnishment: an employer’s guide

Insperity

Receiving notice of a court-ordered wage garnishment for an employee can be overwhelming for business owners. Wage garnishment is more common than you might imagine, and failure to properly address the situation can adversely affect your business. What is wage garnishment?

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How Does a Wage Garnishment Work?

Patriot Software

You open the mail and see an order telling you to garnish an employee’s wages for an overdue debt. So, what does it mean to garnish an employee’s wages? And, what do you need to do? What is garnishment? Garnishment is a method of collecting money from a person with overdue debts.

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Strategic Compliance: Making the Case for Change

HR Bartender

Continuous analysis to identify hidden costs and illuminate hidden opportunities is what takes compliance from that “accepted” cost of doing business to “strategic strategy”. Estimated reading time: 4 minutes. Congrats to them! This is true regardless of the type of HR-related risks we’re talking about. This sounds great.”