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HR’s Role in Managing Complex Pay Structures

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The modern workplace employs a combination of hourly and salaried employees, contract and contingent workers, freelancers, short-term and seasonal hires, and other classifications, each with their own unique payroll requirements. Let’s look at a few key payroll considerations every HR professional should be aware of.

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Managing the Managers: Payroll’s Secret Weapon

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As a follow-up to our webinar titled “Time and Attendance Payroll Fraud”, Christine Stolpe addresses several questions that arose during the webinar around best practices to handle and prevent payroll fraud. Payroll Conversations with New Managers. Perform frequent payroll audits. Need help managing payroll?

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What are the Benefits of Time & Attendance Systems

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Time and attendance systems track employees’ worked hours, then exports these hours for payroll processing. This streamlines the payroll process and eliminates human error, resulting in correct paychecks each and every pay period. Avoid human error, achieve compliance. Establish an atmosphere of productivity. Time management.

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The True ROI of Automating Time and Attendance

UKG

Fewer compliance issues. Automation provides an excellent ROI on the compliance front by heading off potential violations before they become a problem. Fortunately, many of the most repetitive HR and payroll tasks can be easily automated, effectively eliminating a daily or weekly payroll expense. Less unnecessary payroll.

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What are Wage Garnishments?

UKG

The proper handling of garnishments is one of the most difficult and complex issues affecting the payroll department. Payroll professionals must be aware of all federal and state requirements before processing the order. There are several steps that payroll needs to complete before processing a garnishment in the payroll system.

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Five Ways to Cut Labor Costs with Effective Business Systems

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Coordinate Payroll and Scheduling. Too many small businesses let their schedules determine their payrolls, when in fact the two systems should closely inform each other. Find out more about the ways Ascentis can help keep your costs lower and your schedules in order.

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State Versus Federal: Which One Rules When it Comes to Garnishments

UKG

The proper handling of garnishments under federal law is one of the most difficult issues affecting your payroll department. When you add in the state laws this can become even more difficult to determine compliance. Voluntary wage assignments are an easy area for payroll when it comes to compliance.