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Who is W-4 Exempt

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What is W-4 Exempt?

While it is not necessary for your employees to fill out a W-4 every year, we often get the question of whether an employee can file EXEMPT for federal withholding. So how do you know which employees are W-4 exempt? What is Form W-4? First, to...

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WA State Unemployment

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Washington State Unemployment: What Companies Need to Know

The Washington State (WA) Employment Security Department, or WA State Unemployment Division, is in charge of regulating the Corporate Officer change...

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ACA Employer Mandate Provision Delayed

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PayNews: Delay of the Affordable Care Act's Employer Mandate Provision

Most likely you have heard by now that the Obama Administration has announced that it would delay enforcement of the employer mandate under the...

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How to Manage PTO

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Two Tips for Managing Paid Time Off

Properly handling paid time off (PTO) accruals is often a challenge. In order to mange PTO properly and avoid conflict with employees, businesses...

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Tips for Year-End Payroll

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Tips for Year-End Payroll

As we approach the holidays, our mind inevitably turns to the rapidly approaching year end. In the payroll world, of course, “year end” means much...

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Workflow Automation: Your New Best Friend

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Workflow Automation: Your New Best Friend

An interesting thing happened on the way to the cloud… Enterprise systems, big iron that was used to crunch numbers, store and retrieve data and...

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What Is Software-as-a-Service?

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What Is Software-as-a-Service?

One new-ish term of art that has always bothered me is the curious label of Software-as-a-Service. To that, I say, Really? Software as a service? I...

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Unessential Tech and Processes That Slow Down HR

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Unessential Tech and Processes That Slow Down HR

Everything wants to be efficient. It is a law of nature and a law of business. The path to efficiency is to eliminate waste. And waste comes in two...

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What do your Employees and Angry Birds Have in Common?

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What do your Employees and Angry Birds Have in Common?

One of the big story lines in the last five years in technology has been the rise of the importance of the consumer. For nearly two decades it was...

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PayNews: PayNW Launches New Employer E-Newsletter

PayNews: PayNW Launches New Employer E-Newsletter

So it took a bit of work, but PayNorthwest finally launched it’s Employer e-newsletter. Part of our “secret recipe” (okay, not so secret) is...

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