Wage Garnishment? Not Quite as Easy as It Appears
You’ve got no choice but to honor a garnishment order, but the issues of how much of disposable income to pay and which order to honor first are trickier than they appear on the surface.
Category: Benefits and Compensation
This topic provides guidance on how to handle compensation issues in a way that attracts and retains the best talent and advances the strategic goals of your business. You get news and tips on what’s going on nationally and in the states, and updates on changes in regulations, possible governmental action, and emerging compensation trends.
Employer Plan Entitled to $281K after Employee and Lawyer Lied about Settlement Funds
An employer-sponsored health plan was entitled to full recovery of more than $131,700 in funds, plus more than $149,000 in attorney’s fees, after it came to light that a plan participant and her attorneys tried to con the plan by lying about the size of a third-party settlement, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]
Tips for Combating the Pitfalls of Outsourcing
In yesterday’s Advisor, we pondered the pitfalls of outsourcing; today, what you can do to avoid them.
Plan Sponsors Might Have to Report Lump-sum Pay Offers
Pension plan sponsors that offer to “cash out or annuitize benefits” for former employees would have to report this to the U.S. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., the agency has proposed. In a routine information-collection change request to the Office of Management and Budget posted Sept. 23 (79 Fed. Reg. 56831), PBGC said it intends to […]
Outsourcing—Sometimes Your Best Alternative … But …
From payroll to benefits, employers face complex compliance and management challenges. Is outsourcing a best-practice solution?
Chick-fil-A Founder—Embodiment of Servant Leadership
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the phrase “servant leadership.”
Expense Reimbursements: Don’t Get Tripped Up by the Taxes
Yesterday’s Advisor presented basics of expense reimbursement (courtesy of Compensation.BLR.com); today, details of processing and taxation.
IRS and Expense Reimbursements—Don’t Get Stuck with the Taxes
Automobile Reimbursements The IRS sets the rate it allows employers to deduct per mile for the reimbursement of employees who use their own cars (including vans and pickup or panel trucks) for company business. (The IRS decreased the rate for 2014 to 56 cents per mile, a .5-cent decrease over the 2013 rate.)
What About Step-Based Pay? Good in Some Situations
John A. Rubino, who is the founder and president of Rubino Consulting Services in Pound Ridge, NY, offered his tips at a recent BLR®-sponsored webinar.
Do Merit Pay Systems Work? NO, Says Expert
In fact, he says, it is his goal to eliminate such programs. Why?