16 Nov 2016
Should You Reclassify Employees?

Should You Reclassify Your Salaried Employees?

How to Decide if Overtime Will Be a Burden for Your Business

It’s almost the holiday season, which could mean longer hours for your employees. So what will you do when the standard overtime salary threshold jumps from $23,660 to $47,376 on December 1? Will your salaried employees be eligible for time-and-a-half? It’s time to find out. To minimize overtime costs, you’ll also want to look closely at whether these employees should be reclassified.

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10 Oct 2016
Overcome the Time-Tracking Stigma

Overcome the Time Tracking Stigma

How to Talk to Employees About Salary Reclassification

The Department of Labor’s new overtime rule might initiate some awkward conversations with your previously exempt salaried workers. The trouble is that, in order to pay them overtime, nonexempt but salaried workers will need to start tracking their work hours—and some of them may not be happy about this. (more…)

20 Sep 2016

Long-Term Care Facility Automates ACA Compliance

Colonial Manor Has Confidence in New ACA-Required Reports

Colonial Manor, a skilled nursing and assisted living facility in Columbus Junction, Iowa, has been a TMS customer for more than a decade. In January 2016, the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) mandated that all Long-Term Care (LTC) facilities must submit quarterly Payroll-Based Journals (PBJ) reports beginning in July. PBJ reports must be specified in a midnight-to-midnight calendar day format regardless of skilled nursing care shifts. This creates problems for LTC facilities which are 24-hour operations with shifts that cross over midnight to the next day.

Colonial Manor proactively looked for and found a solution in the new PBJ feature of their existing time tracking software, TMS Attendance Enterprise. The PBJ feature automatically formats the necessary data in the correct midnight-to-midnight format without changing the way Colonial Manor tracks employee time or calculates its payroll.

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