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So you hired your first employee and things are going well. Congratulations you are probably really close with the first employee you tell them things about your family and what you do on the [...]

Starting a business? Hiring your first employee? Make sure you do these things: Application for the employee to fill out Background check to confirm their information Find out if your rate of pay [...]

Starting a business is exciting, but it can also be overwhelming. There are so many tasks to be done, and it can feel like there aren’t enough hours in the day. HR tasks, in particular, can [...]

Please join me in welcoming Jim Sullivan to Team Clear!  Jim joined Clear recently as a Broker Relationship Manager where he will be working closely with Katie Gardler to find and bring new [...]

By providing payroll, benefits, and HR services and assisting with compliance issues under state and federal law, PEOs allow small businesses to improve productivity and profitability, to focus [...]

Nearly 75% of millennials expect flexible working conditions 68% of recent graduates say that being able to work remotely will impact their decision to accept a position. Applicants come with a [...]

Department of Labor Clarifies Scope of FLSA’s Administrative Exemption The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) codifies the employment relationship as it relates to the payment of [...]

Businesses with at least 100 employees will soon be required to mandate that employees get vaccinated against the coronavirus or submit to weekly testing. Here’s what employers need to [...]

How you save for retirement may change soon, thanks to a big new bill wending its way through Congress. Remember the SECURE Act? Taking effect at the beginning of 2020, it made a series of [...]

Marketers have the exciting — and often challenging — task of generating a steady stream of creative campaign ideas for their companies or clients. One person alone can’t come [...]

Too often, managers shy away from one-on-one meetings because they don’t know how to structure them or how to have difficult conversations. Plus, it’s Outline: The Only One-On-One [...]

What Organizations Need To Negotiate Successfully A guide for hiring managers on negotiating salary. Determine the right salary to offer a candidate. Learn what you offer and when in the [...]

Engaging employees allows your company to function and grow. But doing so puts employer responsibilities on your shoulders. Running afoul of these responsibilities can trigger penalties, and [...]

On December 11, the FDA granted Emergency Use Authorization for the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID‑19 vaccine candidate. That vaccine, which appears to be more than 90% effective in preventing the [...]

If you were a fan of the 1990s hit TV show The Wonder Years, you probably remember Jack Arnold as the typical 1960s dad—strict disciplinarian, old fashioned, protective. Unfortunately, some small [...]

Every June 25th marks the anniversary of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. The FLSA introduced the forty-hour workweek, established a national minimum wage, and guaranteed overtime pay for [...]

For the vast majority of businesses, employee payroll is the biggest expense, and also the one most fraught with errors. Like it or not, if you’re using a manual timekeeping system, it can be [...]

Not long after they begin preschool, we start asking kids ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ It’s a long way from pre-K to a career; exposing children to a variety of jobs ultimately [...]

Do you think your employees are stressed? If you answered ‘yes’ you’re probably right. The overall stress level of Americans rose for the first time in 10 years according to the American [...]

If you have an iPhone and need to make some quick calculations, you can use the native calculator. But the iPad doesn’t come with a calculator. How about an app that works on both the iPhone and [...]

To comply with safety standards, many companies examine workplace conditions but one issue that is often overlooked is sleep deprivation.

It’s happening beyond the halls of Congress, outside Hollywood casting couches and far away from major TV networks. Sexual harassment is rampant in the workplace and small to midsized companies [...]

She’s an expert with more than 25 years of experience as a Human Resources professional including employee relations, benefits administration, workers’ compensation administration, payroll and [...]

Clear Founder Joe Carfagno started helping in his father’s small business as a child, taking on more and more responsibility—and loving it.

Our announcement on expanded plan options with Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield was picked up across the country including on Yahoo! Finance, Morningstar and Marketwatch.

Safety in the workplace is essential, but in small business environments, its importance is easy to overlook. To keep your employees safe and to effectively manage workers’ compensation losses, [...]