If you’ve tried to track unemployment claims on your own, you’re probably aware of how challenging it can be. Laws and amounts vary by state with laws evolving regularly. A missed deadline can cause overpayments and lead to future issues. Just when you[...]
5 Reasons to Track Your Unemployment Claims Using Software
Best Practices to Avoid Overpaying Unemployment Claims
As an employer, you might have heard about overpaid unemployment insurance claims and disregarded it for a number of reasons. Perhaps you believe it isn’t an issue at your company, and even if it was, it’s not like it would be costing that much. You be[...]
How to ensure long-term benefits by implementing team building at your company
As an employer, you want to keep your turnover rates low so your team is comprised of committed, long-term employees. While there are a number of ways to achieve this, such as improving company culture and creating good lines of communication, an unexp[...]
4 Things You Need to Know About Multistate Claims
Unemployment insurance is by paid through taxes the employer pays to the state (SUTA) and on the federal level (FUTA). Each state determines its own rules for what unemployment claims look like. Because of this, determining UI can be a complicated proc[...]
5 Ways to Ensure Your Employees’ Professional Development
Professional development is a frequently discussed yet often overlooked part of the job. In an ideal world it would be prioritized, but with heavy workloads it tends to fall to the wayside. Some companies are excellent about holding trainings, but mayb[...]
Don’t Be Fooled! Know When to Protest an Unemployment Claim
Turnover is part of the life cycle of a business and cannot be avoided. When it happens, ripples of stress can affect an entire business as everyone feels the loss of a worker and potentially a friend. Depending on why a person was let go, that stress [...]
How to Effectively Manage Payroll and Unemployment Claims
Despite common portrayals, the world of human resources is more than conducting interviews and onboarding new hires. It’s a vastly complex branch of an organization designed to handle some of the most complex issues, such as Read More
3 Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making in the Unemployment Insurance Process
Letting an employee go doesn’t necessarily end with the exit interview. Depending on the reason for their termination, they may file for unemployment insurance, meaning you’ll pay them a percentage of their wages while they remain unemployed. Based on [...]
What is Unemployment Insurance?
When an employee is let go, they have several options to receive income during their period of unemployment. One option is unemployment insurance, where a former employee of a company is paid a percentage of their wages for a period of time between job[...]