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What Zenefits Teaches Us About the Limits of Disruption

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Zenefits is hot tech startup that provides HR software to small businesses. It lives off a combination of funding, including a large investment from actor Jared Leto, and the money it makes when companies purchase services through its software, including insurance and payroll services. Its goal is to automate and simplify HR.

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Employer Medical Assistance Contribution Rate in Massachusetts

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The Employer Medical Assistance Contribution (EMAC), which replaced the Unemployment Health Insurance (UHI) tax in 2014, helps to fund subsidized healthcare for low-income individuals in MA. The EMAC Supplement Appeal Submission role will need to be assigned to Zenefits via the online MA DUA account. EMAC Rates.

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Young Workers Demand Emphasis on Mental Health in the Workplace

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A recent study in the journal Pediatrics found that depression among teens shot up by half a million between 2004 and 2014. Are you ready for a new generation of workers to hit the scene? Well, ready or not, Generation Z is here, and their priorities could be changing American workplaces for the better. Who Is Gen Z?

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The Daily Rundown: “Killer” Bargains

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Today, online prices take a bite out of retail, Colorado adds apprenticeships for healthcare, and overexertion is a pain in the workforce. . Online Prices Are Killing Small Businesses. But the bargain-hunting taking place online through e-commerce is having terrible effect on local small businesses , who can’t afford to keep up.

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What California Employers Need to Know About the 2022 Retirement Plan Deadline Mandate

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Keep reading to learn about the upcoming deadline, and what options and obligations employers have. These statistics are based on the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey and 2014 Survey on Income and Program Participation. The deadline for employers with 5 or more employees is June 30, 2022. CalSavers deadline.

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More Businesses Make Election Day a Holiday. Can Small Businesses Keep Up?

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For me, it’s always about walking the walk,” Golden, the CEO of the Chicago-based Be Found Online , says. Kessler says that while the organization advocates for instating a Federal holiday to vote, it’s focus is on recruiting businesses to offer time off to employees — whether a few hours or an entire day — to vote in elections.

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6 Ways to Keep Your Best People

Zenefits

According to a Zenefits survey of more than 600 U.S.-based People are quitting their jobs in record numbers this year. In April 2021, the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded the highest level and rate of people quitting since the agency began tracking this figure in 2000. These numbers did come down a bit in May — to 3.6