Payroll

If some of your employees are looking to go back to school, or to enroll in college courses for the first time, you might decide to lend a helping hand. An employer can set up a program that effectively pays for all or most of the costs on a ...

To help ease the burden of hard-working parents, employers may institute a dependent care assistance plan for employees. Under such a plan, payments made to third parties like babysitters and day care centers are excluded from income if the costs ...

Personal credit score says a lot to a surety about how you manage your finances and how reliable and financially stable you are. A surety will strongly base their decision about what rate to offer you on this information. To improve your credit score, ...

Generally, the tax exclusion applies to reimbursements covering costs that would have been deductible as job-related moving expenses paid or incurred by employees on their personal tax returns. And those requirements are somewhat convoluted.

For employees who live a fair distance from work, commuting can be costly and time-consuming, not to mention a hassle. At least employers may provide some relief by offering certain tax-free transportation benefits. The three main benefits are ...

A typical work day historically involved eight consecutive hours of effort for full-time workers, but today, most don’t stop working when the clock hits 5 p.m. According to a new survey from CareerBuilder, nearly 3 in 5 workers (59 percent) believe ...

With job prospects improving, workers are looking to greener pastures, but simple mistakes in the application process may be holding them back from landing a new opportunity.

Despite the 401(k)’s importance, the average participant’s only investment strategy is to plow money into the accounts – then do nothing. They rarely if ever make changes to the investment selections their plans offer.