Cloud based applications are not always the way to go just yet. Sometimes it just makes more financial sense to deploy them on servers the old fashioned way. Someday this will change.
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Did you know that any additional wage payments that are not “regular wages” are considered “Supplemental wages”?  Examples of supplemental pay include, but are not limited to, bonuses, commissions, back pay, awards, expense allowances, etc.
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DALLAS — Paradise Detail Ltd. in Dallas has agreed to pay 82 current and former detail and car wash employees $229,475 in back wages following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division that found violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime and minimum wage provisions.
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Health care costs could once again be on the rise for your next renewal period. Under Part 5, Section 1341 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”), U.S. companies offering health insurance benefits may be required to pay an estimated $63 per covered individual beginning in 2014.
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How much money does your company spend on safety? This seems like a simple question on the surface. One would think there would be a column in the company spread sheet that accurately reflects this number.
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U.S. health insurers will pay $1.3 billion in rebates to consumers and employers this year under a provision of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law that penalizes plans that devote too little of their premium revenues to health services, an independent study showed on Thursday.
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U.S. staffing revenue rose 14 percent to $117.2 million in 2011 with growth higher-than-expected for this point in the business cycle, according to the new forecast by Staffing Industry Analysts, a sister organization of Workforce Management.
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You have two extra days this year to make contributions to your Individual Retirement Arrangements. That’s because April 15 falls on a weekend and Emancipation Day, a legal holiday in the District of Columbia, will be observed on Monday, April 16. That means the due date for filing your tax return and making contributions to your 2011 IRA is Tuesday, April 17.
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With business tax-filing deadlines fast approaching, the Internal Revenue Service today encouraged small employers that provide health insurance coverage to their employees to check out the small business health care tax credit and then claim it if they qualify.
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Made in America is hot. More than 400,000 manufacturing jobs have been created since the start of 2010 and there are currently about 229,000 job openings in the manufacturing sector, according to data from the Labor Department.
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