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3 Reasons to Boost Your Employee Benefits Offerings in 2020

Achievers

Naturally, most businesses can’t afford the king suite of benefits—unlimited PTO, free insurance, etc. Given the choice between working somewhere with great benefits and somewhere with the bare minimum, anyone would choose the business with more PTO. You might be thinking, “Well, of course, they would.” Share your comments below.

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It’s time to rewrite your company’s PTO policies

Business Management Daily

PTO policy may not be something you consider updating regularly, and that probably worked for a long time. However, with an increased focus on paid and unpaid leave in the public eye, companies with outdated PTO policies could find themselves in messy situations. They set the rules for when and for what reason workers could take PTO.

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Employee Leave: Setting Your PTO Policy

BerniePortal

*This blog is adapted from the HR Party of One episode, Employee Leave: Setting Your PTO Policy which you can view below. How do you create a PTO policy that’s fair? PTO evolved pretty substantially over about a hundred year period. The History of PTO. So what kind of PTO policy is right for you? It’s tough!

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Benchmarking Employee Benefits: How Do You Compare?

Stratus.HR

Benchmarking Employee Benefits: Paid Time Off (PTO). Nearly all employers that participated in this survey (99%) indicated they offer PTO in some capacity. Of course, few would have survived 2020 without it. With the pandemic nearly in hindsight, many employers are now evaluating changes to their PTO programs.

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IRS’ tips from the top at 2020 APA Virtual Congress

Business Management Daily

At Tuesday’s first workshop, Payroll Changes for 2020 and Beyond , Andrew Garboden, CPP, Director of Payroll Training at the American Payroll Association and Curtis Tatum, Esq., In non-covid-19 news, Tatum reminded attendees of the final regulations allowing employees’ Social Security numbers to be truncated on their 2020 W-2s.

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How to handle unused vacation days amid COVID-19

Insperity

Usually by the fall, employees have used much of their paid time off (PTO) on spring and summer trips. But with hardly anywhere to go during the COVID-19 pandemic, unused vacation days have piled up at many companies – a phenomenon called PTO hoarding. Should you encourage employees to take PTO? You can make PTO policy changes.

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An Employer’s Guide To Work From Home Best Practices (2020)

Genesis HR Solutions

Allow employees to use PTO to offset the times they’re not available. Note: The federal government has expanded medical leave since April 2, 2020, allowing employees to use up to 80 hours of sick time to care for quarantined individuals or children without daycare.).