New Year’s Tips from Your Human Resources Professionals

The beginning of a new year is a great time to internally audit some of your HR-related practices. The following are a few tips to get you started:Employee Handbook – It is not a bad idea to have an HR Professional review your handbook annually for compliance issues....

Social Security Tax Rate Change for 2011

Effective January 1, 2011 the Social Security tax rate was reduced from 6.2% to 4.2% for working individuals. This decrease will replace the Making Work Pay Credit which offered a maximum credit of $400 on tax returns. The new tax benefit will increase an...

2011 IRS Mileage Rate Increase

Effective January 1, 2011, the standard mileage rates for the use of a car (including vans, pickups or panel trucks) is 51 cents per mile for business miles driven, 19 cents per mile driven for medical or moving purposes, and 14 cents per mile driven in service of...

Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC)

Effective November 27, 2010, Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) will phase out. This had initially originated from President Obama when he signed a law extending the EUC program and providing full federal funding for state extended benefits.
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