The Walden Pond-Control When You Get Paid with Jason Lee
Q: We had a payroll issue and accidentally overpaid an employee quite a bit. Can we simply withhold from their future paychecks?...more
For 401(k) Errors, It Seems To Be All Payroll These Days That is what it feels like. In the movie Fletch, Chevy Chase played Irwin R. Fletcher ("Fletch"), an undercover newspaper reporter under the byline "Jane Doe"....more
This month’s key California employment law cases involve reporting time pay and potential liability of payroll companies for wage and hour violations. ...more
Can an employee sue the employer’s payroll service for failure to correctly process and report payroll? According to the California Supreme Court recent decision in Goonewardene v. ADP, LLC (2019) 6 Cal.5th 817, the answer...more
At least, not directly. Can an employee sue her employer’s payroll services provider for alleged violations of California’s wage and hour laws? According to a recent decision from the California Supreme Court, the answer...more
In Goonewardene v. ADP, LLC (S238941), the California Supreme Court has created new protections for payroll companies in lawsuits involving claims of labor violations. Although previous case law has held that employees with...more
The California Supreme Court has cut off another avenue for employees to sue payroll provider companies for unpaid wages. California courts have previously found that employees cannot sue a payroll company under a theory that...more
Last week, the California State Supreme Court struck a decisive victory in favor of payroll companies, issuing a unanimous opinion that an employee is not a third-party beneficiary of the contract between her employer and its...more
• The California Supreme Court recently held that an employee could not pursue contract and tort claims against a payroll service provider for unpaid wages. • The Court found that (1) an employee was not a “third-party...more
When I look at plan errors, one major area of a plan keeps coming up: compensation issues. Compensation issues deal with the definition of Compensation in the plan as well as when salary deferrals are dealt with in the plan....more
The payment and withholding of earned income taxes (“EIT taxes”) in Pennsylvania at times seems like a complex maze and is challenging for human resource professionals or a company’s payroll tax team. In May, Pennsylvania...more
It is tax season once again, and with it comes an increased threat of phishing scams targeting human resources and payroll personnel. In 2016, the IRS alerted employers to a then-emerging email phishing scheme in which...more
These days, the majority of mid-to-large employers use payroll service providers for ease of payroll recordkeeping and administration. These third party providers help ease the burden of calculating taxes and withholding,...more
On February 15, 2017, the California Court of Appeal in Blair v. Dole Food Company, Inc. clarified existing law regarding what information must be included on employee wage statements....more