Management 2000 is seeing more and more companies deciding that
their core competences don't lend themselves to the administrative
side of doing business.
This time of the year companies are preparing
strategies
for the direction they want to go next year or 3 to 5
years from now where do they want...
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I
just ran into a issue that I thought may be of interest to some of
you.
A new client sent in hours / wages for their semi-monthly
payroll. One hourly employee worked 43 hours the 1st week and 37
the 2nd week for a total of 80 hours. They felt that their employee
shouldn't get paid OT for the 3...
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I heard the other day that employers can expect more auditssssss.
Whether it's federal, state, worker's comp, benefits...the auditors
are coming. I know that here at Management 2000 we've seen an
increase.
The good news for our clients is that 90% of the time they're
NOT INVOLVED IN THE AUDIT. M2K...
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I
asked our two newest prospects, 'what interest you most about
Management 2000'. Turns out they said basically the same thing, and
that is.
'The cost of labor and employment litigation has hit us hard in the
last 12 months'.
These prospects will soon be clients. Why? Because they have it
figured...
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I
don't say this to scare you, but there are some things you need to
know / do if your thinking about cuts in pay for your
company.
Management 2000 has been working with our clients to make sure the
have the data necessary to determine if a pay cut is the best
option (there are alternatives).
There...
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Here's
one for you...Just got off phone with an prospective client.
He has about 15 employees but is in an industry that has a lot of
turnover. He's been scanning all of the employee data for about a
year. But he finds out that a number of scanned employee docs
didn't get scanned correctly. I think...
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A
client friend, who's been with Management 2000 for 7 years and has
a Auto Glass Company operating in 2 Midwest States says
he's fortunate to have the M2K relationship... In the last 60 days
he had one employee file a false workers' comp claim and two
employee unemployment (EEOC) issues. The...
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A client friend of mine was telling me about how he's rewarding
/
motivating his employees without spending a lot of money. He got
his ideas from a book '1001 Ways to Reward Employees', by Bob
Nelson.
He's attacking it from two angles.
1. Involving the employees...asking for their...
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One
of our clients flattered me a few months ago by asking if I would
sit in with their management team...They had set up an internal
committee to try and cut cost, but they were having
difficulty coming up with answers / solutions and needed a
extra pair of eyes.
There were a number of issues, but...
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We
(Management 2000) just brought on a new client and I thought I'd
share some of their story of being an employer and why they came to
M2K.
The employer has 5 different locations and 155 employees.
Gathering payroll data from punch clocks and handwritten
logs...
This lead to an employee crunching...
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Think
about using 'Payroll' as a communications tool. The last few
years Management 2000 has been offering and helping our clients use
our payroll advantages to help support their efforts in
communicating with their employees.
We have a system that allows the employer to give their employees
access...
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Hope you're all doing well. You know how the weather changes
every 15 minutes this time of year...well the same could be said
about Payroll.
You've heard about the 'American Recovery and Reinvestment Act'
(ARRA). Well this act presents Employers significant implementation
challenges, such as...and...
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Yes, I know, payroll is much more then paying the employees. I
can't count the times that employers have called Management
2000 saying that they... Missed a deadline for taxes
Had to pay penalty's
Didn't pay the right garnishment
Mis-coded workers' comp
Didn't pay overtime correctly
The county /...
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Management
2000 has been using pay cards for about 5 years. If you're not
using this pay card option you probably will be
soon...
Lets say your employee doesn't have access to a bank account
and always gets a 'live' check then needs to cash the check at a
Check Cashing place which charged FEES, ...
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We (Management 2000) have been offering Time Clock and Attendance
solutions for years...but it seems to really be drawing big time
interest over the past 6 months. Management 2000 has clients with 5
to 500 employees that find this tool helpful. Here are a few things
to think about if your looking...
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One of our newest clients (Jacob) had a number of problems with
being an Employer of 10. He felt that he didn't spend enough time
on his core business and too much time working on tax issues,
garnishment / judgment issues, banking ACH issues etc. Jacob called
us and we said 'Hey we do that'!!!
He...
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Management 2000 has been fortunate to have brought on a number
of new clients. They choose to outsource payroll services for
various reasons, but I wanted to see what their 'Payroll' reasons
were for coming on board with us. I thought it would be helpful to
share this with everyone...
Tired of...
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Interesting how the world is changing...it's getting more and more
difficult to keep up with it all. Here are a few things we at
Management 2000, and Indiana PEO are running into.
What are the payroll tax consequences of payments made to an
employee as part of a severance or layoff?
How does wage...
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OUCH!!!
Here are some issues that Management 2000 has been dealing
with...maybe you have too. M2K has 200+ clients who have
about 4500 employees in 36 different states. I only bring this up
since it seems like each state has their own spin on some of these
issues and with the the country's economic...
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Happy Friday to everyone! Just got a call from a lady who owns
a Trucking Company. (I get these calls all the time) So I thought
I'd share the call with you. She hates all the time-frames /
deadlines involved in paying employment taxes (had to pay a penalty
last year)Filing the 941s each quarter and...
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