Anchor Payroll Blog

The Impact of Hiring Temporary Workers

Posted by Anchor Staff on Jan 19, 2023 9:40:54 AM

 

Temporary workers play a significant role in certain businesses. Especially with employers in industries that heavily rely on strong holiday season sales, the performance of temporary workers also is critical to customer service satisfaction. However, how do you know whether or not hiring temporary workers is truly advantageous to your business?

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Topics: employees, humancapitalmanagement, hiring, Temporary Worker

How to Design a Powerhouse Team

Posted by Anchor Staff on Nov 22, 2021 8:29:56 PM

Many Americans get their first job working at a fast-food chain. You may have been one of them. If so, you probably remember your first day. Maybe you started at a register. Or perhaps you began in the kitchen. Either way, you had a lot to learn in a short amount of time. Everyone was counting on you to help keep the lines moving. Patience isn’t a virtue in this business, after all.

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Topics: leadership, teams, collaboration, hr, humancapitalmanagement, tips

Does enrolling in Medicare trigger an offer of COBRA?

Posted by Anchor Staff on Aug 18, 2021 9:44:15 AM

No, enrolling in Medicare does not cause COBRA to start. Under the federal rules, COBRA must be offered to persons enrolled in the employer’s health plan only if they lose coverage because of certain specific events. Termination of employment is an example of a COBRA qualifying event. Becoming eligible for Medicare, or enrolling in Medicare, is not a COBRA qualifying event.

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Topics: hr, humancapitalmanagement

What Is HR Compliance?

Posted by Anchor Staff on Aug 18, 2021 8:13:05 AM

Running a business comes with no shortage of perks: the freedom to be your own boss, invest in an idea, steer its trajectory, and, with a little luck, create wealth. It has its challenges, too. Competition may be fierce. Demand for what you offer may be low. Costs may not be sustainable. But even if everything else is going your way, there’s one challenge that’s ever-present. We’re talking, of course, about HR compliance.

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Topics: leadership, hr, humancapitalmanagement

Employees Want More – Can You Offer It?

Posted by Anchor Staff on Aug 17, 2021 5:53:37 PM
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Topics: employers, employees, hr, humancapitalmanagement, tips

Why States and Municipalities Are Protecting Natural Hair

Posted by Anchor Staff on Apr 10, 2021 7:31:39 AM

With the recent addition of Connecticut, eight states and a number of municipalities have passed laws prohibiting race-based hair discrimination, also known as natural hair discrimination. CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) acts are laws intended to create and enforce legal protections so that employees don’t have to hide their racial identity by changing their natural hair in the workplace.

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Topics: hr, humancapitalmanagement

Four Ways to Show Employees That You Appreciate Them

Posted by Anchor Staff on Nov 29, 2020 7:55:09 AM

How often do you say “thanks” to your team? Daily, occasionally, during an annual review?

Saying thanks and showing appreciation shouldn’t be limited to special occasions. Here are four ways to create a culture of appreciation in your workplace:

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Topics: teams, hr, humancapitalmanagement, motivation

Tis the Season for Seasonal Employees

Posted by Anchor Staff on Nov 22, 2020 4:05:32 PM

With the holidays here and year-end quickly approaching, many businesses will be looking to ramp up their workforce even more for the final holiday push. At least three key challenges exist for any business facing this need: (1) to figure out how much time and effort to invest in seasonal employees without sacrificing customer service and ongoing activities, (2) to motivate seasonal employees on the short-term goals, and (3) to utilize these opportunities to further your and their long-term needs and goals.

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Topics: employers, employees, hr, humancapitalmanagement

Voting Leave Compliance

Posted by Anchor Staff on Oct 24, 2020 10:34:38 AM

Many employers are unaware of state voting leave laws, which we anticipate will be heavily relied upon this year given the challenges presented by the pandemic. Most states require that employers provide at least a few hours off to vote, and many of those require that at least some of that time off be paid. The advance notice that may be required from employees is often minimal, so employers should be prepared to grant last-minute requests to vote.

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Topics: teams, employers, hr, humancapitalmanagement

DHS Relaxes In-Person I-9 Inspection Requirement

Posted by Anchor Staff on Sep 28, 2020 12:14:44 PM

***Update: On September 14, DHS announced another 30-day extension of this temporary rule. The rule is now set to expire on November 19, 2020. 

The physical presence requirement of the Employment Eligibility VerificationForm I-9, requires that employers, or an authorized representative, physically examine, in the employee’s physical presence, the unexpired document(s) the employee presents from the Lists of Acceptable Documents to complete the Documents fields in Form I-9’s Section 2.

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Topics: covid, humancapitalmanagement, documentation