Editor’s Note

An HR professional wears several hats — one of which may be payroll administrator. This includes processing payroll, tracking vacation or sick time, answering payroll-related questions, and finding and solving payroll errors.

 

That being the case, it’s also your job to make sure everyone is being fairly compensated: the worker for their time and contribution, and the employer for the money they’re paying. To perform your job well, you need to understand wage theft and time theft — and be able to recognize when they’re taking place.

According to a recent survey, majority of the respondents admit to committing time theft, adding 15 minutes or more to their time cards.

This edition's cover article, Don’t Leave Your Business Open To Wage Theft And Time Theft Violations by Amy Bailey, delves more on this and will help you understand how to recognize when worker or employer commit time theft and what can you do to fix the problem.

Moving on there is an article, A Class Waiver Can Be A Condition Of Employment by Noah A. Finkel, David S. Baffa, Daniel C. Whang, and Andrew L. Scroggins, that talks about the recent ruling by the United States Supreme Court that stated that employers may require employees, as a condition of employment, to enter into arbitration agreements that contain waivers of the ability to participate in a class or collective action under various employment statutes.

We also bring you two exclusive HR.com research in this edition.

The HR Compliance Business Impact Report, sponsored by Ceridian, is about how U.S. employers manage compliance risk in the workplace.

And, Employee Lifecycle Management, sponsored by APS, study reveals how effectively HR professionals within a cross section of organizations in the U.S. manage compliance issues in their workplace and the overall business impact that these changes have on their policies and procedures.

We hope these studies will help you learn the strategies organizations need to use to stay up-to-date with new mandates.

Also check out Jason Sturman‘s Data Overload and Tracey Smith’s Gender Pay Gap Is NOT The Same As Pay Equity, among other articles featured in this edition of HRIS and Payroll Excellence.

We hope the features will help you with your payroll and HRIS challenges.

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