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Court-ordered employee wage garnishment: an employer’s guide

Insperity

The court order legally requires you, as the employer, to hand over a specific portion of an employee’s paycheck and send it directly to a third party, which could include the: Creditor Attorney for the creditor State or federal government State or federal court. How is the employer notified? Some states require a percentage of gross wages.

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Outsourcing Services to Virtual Staff: Is It Worth It?

Productivityist

By comparison, a regular office employee will cost on average $20 per hour and are entitled to government and company mandated benefits. The estimated cost of a regular employee including benefits is equivalent to one-and-a-half times the basic salary. Thus, they are not entitled to benefits. Increase productivity.

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the new overtime law is here — if you earn less than $35,568, read this

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Some background: T he federal government divides all workers into two categories: exempt workers, who are not required to receive overtime pay, and non-exempt workers, who must receive overtime pay. To be considered exempt, you have to meet that duties test, be paid on a salary basis (i.e., Weirdly, no. Possibly, but not necessarily.

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office won’t call me “lord,” everyone has ideas but won’t do the work, and more

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And they apparently just cc’d a whole list of people (rather than bcc’ing or using mailing list software) so that everyone’s email addresses were shared and people could easily reply-all to the whole list? It’s not a dealbreaker for me, but I’ve never tried to negotiate anything other than salary.

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my boss’s relative treats me like his personal assistant

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I have packaged and mailed innumerable items for him, from Amazon returns to birthday gifts for relatives. The response: When I run errands in my off time for him, it’s usually after work hours and I’m not paid for that time, but I’m also salaried, so overtime is never something I’m paid for anyway.

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my coworker is using the wrong title, I don’t want to tell my employer where I’ll be working next, and more

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increase on the original salary, so a 10% raise (which I was, obviously, thrilled about). My worry is that after an interview, I’ll be asked to e-mail a list of references, and I’ll have to wait to hear back from the professors I’d like to list if they happen to be busy. Every year, everyone gets a 2.5%

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I want to skip my office’s day at the beach, I shared an employee’s paycheck on Facebook, and more

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And yes, there are certainly employers with total salary transparency, where everyone knows what everyone else makes, or government agencies where salary is public record — but I’m assuming that’s not the case here.

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