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Up until this point, small businesses – those with less than 50 full-time or full-time equivalent employees – were not faced with costly fines like their Applicable Large Employer (ALE) counterparts under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). But that’s no longer the case, according to a tax imposed under Internal Revenue Code Section 4980D.

Under the Free Labor Standards Act (FLSA), many salaried employees with managerial jobs who receive more than $450 a week aren’t entitled to overtime pay, but that would change under a new proposal by the Obama administration. Workers classified as manager or professional who earn up to $970 a week would have to be paid overtime, per the plan devised by the Department of Labor (DOL).

Shortly after the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) subsidies were upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, President Barack Obama signed into law a trade bill that, in some cases, more than doubled the fines associated with the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) employer mandate reporting requirements.

Millions of Americans could become eligible for overtime pay in the coming months.

Just like you and me, sharks have their own set of personality traits, and these attributes have set both species apart as apex predators. In honor of one of the greatest weeks featuring our misconstrued finned friends from the sea, TV’s Shark Week, we are discussing the parallels shared between sharks and the job titles that make up corporate America.

In an effort to reduce income tax rates for individuals, North Dakota recently released new tax withholding tables that will affect businesses and their employees immediately for tax years beginning on or following Jan. 1, 2015.

Yesterday, in a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal subsidies of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by ruling that the tax credits for health insurance are authorized in the 34 states that have a federal marketplace.

The greatest flaw in intent is how often good intentions go bad. It doesn’t matter if you “didn’t mean to” offend someone; regardless, they’re upset and you have to figure out how to move on.

I started the year talking about innovation and how we all can be innovators. Great innovators are ordinary people, like you and me, doing extraordinary things.

May has come and gone; unfortunately, so has the focus on health in the American workplace. According to the Integrated Benefits Institute, poor health costs the U.S. economy $576 billion a year, which is just one reason why it is important to continue health discussions.

According to a study by the International Data Corporation (IDC), "U.S.-based companies spend $25 billion to $35 billion processing (filing, storing and retrieving) paper. Management of documents over their life cycle pushes that figure up to $100 billion per year." It is no longer a matter of "if - rather, what businesses should consider before buying a document management system (DMS).

In 2013, U.S. businesses spent nearly$162 billion on learning initiatives, according to the Association for Talent Development, and yet questions linger whether organizations are getting their money’s worth.