Co-authored by Karen S. Elliott Imagine you are the owner of a business with about 50 employees.  Your product is well-known and there are limited suppliers in the United States.  Your best salesman generates about 50% of your company’s gross sales – or about $100 million a year.  He is on salary plus commission under [...]

A new revision to Massachusetts’ Personnel Records Law requires employers to notify an employee within 10 days of the employer placing in the employee’s personnel record any negative information.

We at Sands Anderson now have 11 specialty blogs. Our newest one, the Virginia Workplace Blog, went live today, with an article about whether background checks can really prevent murders in the workplace.

This article is the second of two by John Vandenhoff on the newly enacted HIRE Act. John is a tax specialist at Sands Anderson and in this article John describes some of tax incentives as well as the rules that apply when taking advantage of the HIRE Act’s provisions.

As of today, April 3, 2009, all U.S. employers must begin using the updated I-9 form for verifying employment eligibility. The I-9 system of employment verification, created by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, is the nation’s sole mandatory employment eligibility verification program. All U.S. employers are responsible for the completion and retention [...]