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Handling Bonuses and Special Payrolls

Bonuses are a great way to recognize employees, celebrate milestones, and reward performance. Whether it is a holiday bonus, retention incentive, referral reward, or performance pa...

Payroll Pulse: The hidden price of the perfect perk, where modern rewards meet payroll reality

Highlights In the U.S., cash, gift cards, stipends, and crypto or token payments default to ordinary wages, with no small-dollar … The post Payroll Pulse: The hidden price of the p...

Understanding the Different Types of Pay Periods

One of the most important payroll decisions an employer makes is choosing a pay period. While it may seem like a simple scheduling choice, pay frequency affects cash flow, payroll...

Understanding the Different Types of Pay Periods

One of the most important payroll decisions an employer makes is choosing a pay period. While it may seem like a simple scheduling choice, pay frequency affects cash flow, payroll...

Appeals Court Upholds Employer’s OT Calculations: What Payroll Got Right

The Seventh Circuit held that a Wisconsin employer properly included certain pay differentials and incentive premiums in employees’ regular rate of pay before calculating the overt...

Payroll’s Role in Financial Planning

When most people think about payroll, they think about paychecks. But payroll is much more than a routine administrative task. It is one of the largest and most influential financi...

Payroll Scheme to Avoid Overtime Backfires: $457K Payout

What happens when an employee works 50 hours per week, but payroll makes it look like 25 hours for each of two companies to avoid overtime premiums? That was the setup allegedly de...

Payroll Problems Lead to Proposed $162M Settlement in New York

A federal court has approved a proposed $162 million class action settlement between Public Partnerships LLC (PPL) and personal assistants who provide care through New York’s Consu...

What Payroll Revisions Reveal About The Economy

Bonuses Left Out of Overtime Pay: Tennessee Contractor to Pay $1.73M

Payroll teams that pay nonexempt workers nondiscretionary bonuses should confirm those amounts are included in the overtime regular rate. A recent DOL investigation found that a Te...

What Happens When Payroll Runs on a Smart Contract Instead of a Spreadsheet

Or: what happens when you take “employees should be paid the moment they earn it” seriously enough to put it on-chain.Continue reading on Medium »

Summer season success: Don’t get caught out by the unique payroll requirements of seasonal workers

Seasonal workers are the backbone of many British businesses during the busy summer months. However, employers must understand the unique payroll responsibilities for these workers...

Payroll Reminder: Labor Day 2026

Both Payroll Partners and the Federal Reserve will be closed on Monday, September 7th in observance of Labor Day. Ask your Payroll Specialist about the due date changes for payroll...

Help Wanted: Payroll Clerk – Join RCIL’s team

Payroll Clerk – Full-time, RCIL, Osage City – Be an important part of the RCIL team that processes weekly payroll for over 1,200 care givers. Provide great customer service over th...

The Compliance Complexity of Global Payroll

Regulation rarely stands still. In payroll, the introduction of real-time reporting frameworks and expanded data privacy laws over the past decade marked a turning point. Since the...

If you’re paying staff from July 1, here’s what you need to know about the new payday super rules

Time is ticking … last-minute payday super must-knows.

It Pays to Work For the SF Sheriff's Office, Like Over $800K Per Year for Some

Some of the city's highest paid employees are part of the San Francisco Sheriff's Office, with overtime pay driving overall compensation well into the high six figures for dozens o...

Payroll4Construction Releases New Article on Managing Payroll During the Construction Busy Season and Beyond

Fringe Benefit, Payroll Reporting Violations Cost Contractor $67K in Back Wages

An investigation into a public works project in Lake County turned into a costly lesson on certified payroll compliance. The Illinois Department of Labor’s (IDOL) Wage Transparency...

Alaska Payroll Card Rules Are Now in Effect: What Employers Need to Know

Alaska employers may pay wages by payroll card under SB 79, effective July 1, 2026, subject to new compliance requirements. Employers may use a pay card only if the employee volunt...

TestAssure WFM Regression Testing Helps Enterprise Organizations Reduce Payroll and Compliance Risk After Go-Live

Enhanced offer gives organizations on leading enterprise WFM platforms a repeatable, scalable, and auditable way to validate WFM configurations as their environments continue to ch...

It’s Only August… Why You Should Be Planning Your Year-End Bonuses Now

For many businesses, year-end bonuses are one of the best ways to reward employees for a successful year. But waiting until December to think about bonuses can create unnecessary s...

Port Authority payroll hits $1.2B as 20 workers — 17 of them cops — rake in $400K annually

Twenty Port Authority workers pocketed $400,000 last year – including 17 cops – as the bistate agency’s overall payroll soared above $1.2 billion, and eight of its top earners coll...

The Permanent Section 45S Paid Family and Medical Leave Credit: Analyzing the Statutory Wage Method Mechanics and the Ne...

Notice 2026-28, 2026-28 I.R.B. 1 (Aug. 5, 2026) The enactment of the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), Pub. L. No. 119-21, 139 Stat. 72 (July 4, 2025), has fundamentally r...