New Hires and Expired I-9 Documentation During Covid
HR professionals – during this era of Covid-19, how are you handling new hires who have expired list B documents for their I-9 forms? Many new hires tend to give a Driver’s License as a List B document for employment authorization, but what if the license is recently expired and the new hire cannot get […]
Overcoming challenges with a remote workforce
I will be holding a webinar along with Stephen Trimboli in the near future to discuss Common Challenges of Remote Work. In the meantime I will sharing some tips on how to deal with various challenges. Are you having a hard time keeping up with morale since your organization switched to remote working? This transition has had […]
Social Security Payroll Tax Deferral
I’m sure most of you have heard about the new Social Security payroll tax deferral that went into effect on September 1st. On Aug. 28, the IRS issued Notice 2020-65, allowing employers to suspend withholding and paying to the IRS eligible employees’ Social Security payroll taxes, as part of COVID-19 relief. The payroll tax “holiday,” or […]
Top 10 Mistakes in Handling I-9 Forms
Internal I-9 audits should result in documented changes in practices, not just corrections to the forms, according to Mira Mdivani, an immigration attorney in Overland Park, Kan. In fact, she cited not understanding the difference between correcting I-9s and correcting practices leading to I-9 violations as one of the top 10 mistakes employers make in […]
Grateful Synergies receives VOSB & WOSB Certifcations
Grateful Synergies is proud to announce that they have been officially certified as a Veteran Owned Small Business by the Department of Veteran Affairs, A VOSB-certified business is given top priority for government contracts and subcontracting opportunities. In addition, we have been certified as a Women Owned Small Business by the Small Business Administration. Federal […]
The impact of Worker’s Comp claims from Covid-19
Employers who are operating their business through telecommuting. Interesting information shared with me by Stephen Trimboli, Esq. from Trimboli & Prusinowski, LLC. Teleworking became a necessity during the lock downs declared in response to the worldwide pandemic. It proved remarkably popular, giving many employers an incentive to consider making teleworking a permanent feature. But teleworking raises […]
COVID-19 Takes a Toll on Employees’ Mental Well-Being
https://www.shrm.org/hr-today/news/hr-news/Pages/SHRM-Research-COVID-19-Takes-a-Toll-on-Employees-Mental-Well-Being.aspx
Medical Treatment From the Comfort of Your Own Home?
Are you sick of the long waits in your doctors office? Let’s face it, this time of year providers are inundated with patients coming in for the flu and common colds. This leads to long waits in those waiting rooms meaning more time away from work, incurring travel expenses and time. What is telemedicine? Telemedicine […]
Price Transparency in Healthcare coming soon!
Two regulations advance the Trump Administration’s commitment to increasing price transparency As directed by President Trump’s Executive Order on Improving Price and Quality Transparency in American Healthcare, today the Department of Health and Human Services is announcing that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is issuing two rules that take historic steps to increase price […]
It’s Time to Get a Flu Shot!
Why should people get vaccinated against flu? Influenza is a potentially serious disease that can lead to hospitalization and sometimes even death. Every flu season is different, and influenza infection can affect people differently, but millions of people get flu every year, hundreds of thousands of people are hospitalized and thousands to tens of thousands […]