Find Your State Tax Forms Here!

Keeping up with the latest income tax withholding requirements for employees is one part of onboarding that is always challenging. A year doesn't pass that there isn't a change in the forms for any number of states. For employers with locations in multiple states, the confusion is compounded. This is especially true if Human Resources [...]

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EEOC Questions Efficiency of Criminal Background Screening

EEOC Questions Efficiency of Criminal Background Screening Fay Hanson at Workforce Management has posted a thought provoking article on criminal background checks (site registration is free and well worth it). Currently, most employers perform some type of screening for convictions as part of the onboarding process either pre or post hiring. The idea behind criminal background [...]

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Onboarding Policy Acknowledgements

Onboarding Policy Acknowledgements – Know Your Limits When was the last time you reviewed the agreements you ask new hires to sign during onboarding? A recent ruling in California raises some important questions about what you can and cannot ask employees to sign. In the case of Maria Pellegrino v. Robert Half International, an employer was [...]

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AT&T U-Verse, Day 1

We’re going to take a departure from my normal fare of human resources topics and talk about my experiences switching to AT&T U-Verse, AT&T’s Television Over IP (TVIP) service to compete for home television service.   I’ve been with DirecTV for over 5 years, and we even moved with them when we moved from Gulfport, Mississippi  to [...]

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Paperless Applications a Boon When Unemployment is High

I talk a lot about our onboarding system on my blog, but that isn't the only product we offer at Emerald Software Group. We've actually got a paperless employment application package too. It interfaces directly with our onboarding  system to create a complete paperless hiring solution. Some of our clients already have a paperless recruiting system [...]

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Translation is Essential When Onboarding ESL Employees

Do you have a system in place that makes all your company policies available to employees in their first language? The blogger over at All Language Alliance has some interesting news from the U.K. about what might happen if you don't. Last year, an Irish company was ordered to compensate all foreign born employees 5,000 [...]

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FMLA Notice Required During Onboarding

DOL Rules Require FMLA Notice During Onboarding In 2009, a new regulation from the DOL went into effect. This expands on the previous notification requirements regarding FMLA. A general notice poster is still, of course, required to be posted in common areas where it is easily visible to employees. It must also be included in your [...]

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Minimize Litigation Costs – Distribute All Policies During Onboarding

As you know, eliminating errors and omissions on your state and federal new hire forms helps protect your company from getting in trouble during an audit. However, an effective onboarding system can also protect you in the event of an employee lawsuit. How does that work? Let's take a look at the Wage Payment and [...]

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Scott Williams Quote

Scott Williams, former VP of HR for Coca-Cola and now President of The Stonehaven Group, recently said some pretty nice things about us.

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ICE Gets Paid After Massive I9 Audit

ICE Gets Paid After Massive I9 Audit Have you seen those TV ads for lawyers who say they can help you reduce the back taxes and fines you owe the IRS? Perhaps the Internal Revenue Service will negotiate for pennies on the dollar to settle your tax woes. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is an entirely different [...]

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Onboarding Teens – Special Considerations

FLSA regulations govern child labor in the U.S. Many employers hire teens for unskilled jobs in retail and food service, and these workers can be a valuable asset. They are generally in good health; many are excited to be working at their first job. They can get by with a smaller paycheck since Mom and [...]

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California Employment Law – Alternative Workweeks

California Employers Should Clarify Schedules During Onboarding In 2009, a bill passed in California that gives employers and employees more choices. If the business owner and a two-thirds majority of employees agree, an alternative workweek schedule can be implemented. This agreement would allow workers to select from a couple of different overtime arrangements. One choice would be [...]

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Emerald Software Joins Mainframe Migration Alliance

Emerald Software Group announces today that the company has been accepted into the Mainframe Migration Alliance.

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Mainframe Migration



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Benefits of Using Staff Service Request for Onboarding

The AllegroHR Staff Service Request (SSR) application is a useful tool for requisitioning items throughout an employee's tenure at your organization. Of course, it's especially useful during onboarding when a significant amount of material requisitioning (also known as provisioning) takes place in a short period of time. Here are three features of our SSR program [...]

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Emerald Software Accepted as Member of Advanced Technology Development Center

Emerald Software Group announces today that the company has been accepted as a member in the Georgia Tech sponsored ATDC

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E-Verify Reliability Called Into Question

E-Verify Reliability Called Into Question I guess it shouldn't come as a shock that a system created and run by the government has been shown to perform at a subpar level. The whole point of the E-Verify program is to ensure that employees are authorized to work in the U.S. and identify those who aren't. Apparently, [...]

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Easy Mondays, Part 1



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Whitepaper - Moving HR Forward with Microsoft .Net Servers

This article, one of a series of articles and whitepapers by Emerald's legacy application modernization team, compares and contrasts the cost and support benefits of HR applications being migrated from mainframes to the .Net platform.

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Emerald and HRMC Sign Partnership

Partnership delivers end-to-end talent acquisition solution, dramatically decreasing the time it takes to identify, hire, and onboard top talent.

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