What tools are your staff equipped with to manage payroll?

Many new businesses, starting with one person, a couple, or with a partner first feel that, as they add the first one or two people, payroll is something that can be handled.  Very quickly, though, problems can arise and it becomes necessary to seek a better way.  Outsourcing your payroll tasks, on some level, seems to be a prudent move. 

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What tools are your staff equipped with to manage payroll?

HR Horror Stories

Our HR horror story has been very successful so far but we are still waiting for your story! Here is a great example to get you started…

My husband worked for a small mechanic shop. His coworker was allowed to have his 15 year old son stay at the shop for a couple hours a day to carpool. One day my husband and his coworker got into a heated conversation in the shop while they were working. The coworker pushed my husband to the ground and his son attacked him with a large metal bar giving my husband life threatening injuries. Police and paramedics were called and both were arrested (the son spend 2 ½ years in prison for this.) The owner called me on my cell phone while I was waiting in the emergency room and said that the incident happened during lunch hours in the parking lot, so it was not work related. Also that he had not had workers compensation insurance for the past 5 years, but this was not a workers comp situation, so don’t tell anyone at the hospital it was. Little did he know that I was in the HR field and I knew exactly what kind of trouble he was into for not having that insurance. I made sure the hospital knew the injury took place at work during work hours. We also had a police report stating such via eye witnesses. In the end, the employer was fined heavily for not having workers comp insurance, he had to pay for my husband’s medical bills and compensation to my husband for the severity of his injuries. It totaled over 35K dollars. Just think, if he just had the insurance how different his situation would have turned out!