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Your 2021 payroll questions answered.

Business Management Daily

Do paid sick leave wages an employee receives under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, as amended by ARP, reduce their accrued time under an employer’s PTO plan, or are the hours and wages in addition to their accrued PTO time? The post Your 2021 payroll questions answered. What you need to know.

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Combat COVID-19 Burnout With These 3 PTO Strategies

Best Money Moves

Combat COVID-19 Burnout With These 3 PTO Strategies. PTO benefits can be an important weapon in fighting widespread pandemic burnout. Try these three strategies to encourage PTO use. Yet, even before the COVID-19 pandemic, American workers have a history of not taking full advantage of their PTO.

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Accommodating PTO Post Pandemic

Abel HR

Prior to the corona virus outbreak, many companies had paid time off (PTO) policies that don’t allow employees to carry over all of their vacation time accrued or strictly limits how much time they can shift to a subsequent calendar year. shorted for their time.

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Rigid return to office mandates and fixed places of work are backfiring

Workplace Insight

The best places of work create positive experiences through various means, including: Flexible scheduling Compressed workweeks Generous paid time off (PTO) Predictable schedules for hourly workers More part-time work opportunities The study also highlights an ongoing challenge: employee mental health.

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5 Key Trends and 5 Important Steps to Take Away From HUB’s 2023 Workforce Absence Management Survey

Griffin Benefits

The need to improve recruiting and retention has affected employee benefits and workforce absence management rather considerably these past two years, in some cases resulting in more liberal policies on hybrid work, paid time off (PTO) and observed holidays. These same employers are also providing additional paid holidays and PTO.

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Lessons from employers who stepped up to the plate in 2021

Business Management Daily

Given the incidence of side effects, particularly after the second dosage of the vaccines, offering a little extra PTO to recover is a wise gesture to support employee immunization,” Wurst says. The summer of 2021 was our biggest year financially ever. The chaos of the world left many employees feeling vulnerable.

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2024 Employee Benefits Trends: Focus on Employee Wellbeing

Best Money Moves

Expanded opportunities for PTO Employee expectations for time out of office are moving far beyond standard PTO. Inclusive PTO policies help destigmatize mental health-related absences and can help protect employees from losing pay when faced with unexpected circumstances.