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OK at Work: How to Compensate Employees without Affecting Payroll
This week on OK at Work, Sarah Sawyer and Russell Berger discuss ways to incentivize and compensate employees, especially in light of increased costs for employees with inflation and rising gas prices. Depending on the employer’s goals, there are several ways to provide employees with additional compensation outside of increasing their salary or hourly rate,…
Workplace Compliance: Avoiding Costly Mistakes
When you get down to brass tax, the fundamentals of running a successful FedEx operation are having operational trucks and employees to run the routes. Like most other businesses, employees are the organization’s lifeblood but can also be the most troublesome from a compliance perspective. This is especially true for FedEx contractors who, in managing…
Read Delete: How Much Land does the U.S. Military Control in Each State?
The DoD is the larger government umbrella under which the military falls and the department operates on over 26 million acres of land stateside. To further break it down the U.S. military is divided into four main branches: Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps There is also the Space Force, the Coast Guard, and the National Guard….
Crypto Frame Taking Shape in Real Time
In 2022, CNBC reported on the EthCC conference in Paris, a gathering for hardcore Ethereum developers and technologists. A special spinoff event was a limited invitation only rave party in the Catacombs of Paris, labyrinth of centuries-old tunnels 65 feet underground, which hold the skeletal remains of around six million Parisians.[1] Visiting the Catacombs is…
Can a Divorce Decree Be Modified in South Carolina?
A Divorce Decree is a legal document that finalizes all issues of the parties’ marriage at the end of their divorce case. It can feel like a long and tiring journey to get to that finish line, but when you finally reach it, and you can say you are officially “divorced.” All of the issues…
Executive Playbook: Alternative Solutions for Recruiting and Retention
Recruiting and retention continues to be a challenge for employers. While employers could always pay employees more, that is not a particularly attractive solution and, in many cases, is not a solution at all. In this episode of the Executive Playbook, Mike and Russell discuss strategies that employers can implement to attract new employees and…
Please Release Me
I have been dealing with a lot of claims recently from unhappy clients who have either been charged with employment discrimination or threatened with suit by disgruntled former employees. What to do? One word: release. I’m begging you have your outgoing employees sign a release of all claims and promise not to sue. This requires…
3 Lessons About Divorce You Can Learn from the Mrs. Doubtfire Movie
The past few weeks have been particularly busy for our firm, but I was finally able to enjoy some downtime with the family this weekend. Our family enjoys watching movies together, even if we’ve seen them a thousand times. This past weekend, we watched the movie Mrs. Doubtfire, which we’ve all seen several times, but…
OK at Work: Navigating Different State Requirements
This week on OK at Work, Sarah Sawyer and Russell Berger discuss what employers need to consider regarding employment and tax compliance for employees who regularly work in multiple states or are moving from one state or another. Ensuring that the employee’s payroll is set up correctly can get complicated when dealing with various jurisdictions,…
Read Delete: How a Russian Gas Freeze Would Curtail European GDPs
How a Russian Gas Freeze Would Curtail European GDPs On the day that Germany is waiting for the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline to resume deliveries after maintenance works, fears are mounting that on the other side of the line in Russian Vyborg; the tap will not be turned on again. The EU is…