When you hire someone to work in your home, it is important to make sure you classify their employment correctly, and pay them legally. Most household workers are classified as employees, and with that employment relationship comes payroll and tax reporting requirements. Providing a paystub is one of these requirement in most states. The only states without paystub laws are Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, South Dakota, and Tennessee.
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Topics:
worker misclassification,
payroll,
senior care,
nanny,
wage theft prevention,
agency,
senior,
CPA
When hiring an employee to work in your home, conducting background checks and calling references are key parts of the hiring process. Understanding the information that you will get from each can be the difference between a good hire and a bad one.
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Topics:
household employee background check,
senior care,
nanny,
nanny tax,
caregiver background screening,
nanny background screening,
senior
When you find an amazing nanny, who is not only reliable, but aces the job every day, it is easy to lose sight of their life outside of work. Through casual conversation, your nanny may, or may not, have indicated their plans to grow their own family one day. When that day comes, and your ace lets you know they want to take parental leave, you need to understand parental leave laws, so you can be a great employer to your amazing nanny.
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Topics:
nanny savings,
nanny tax,
agency,
senior,
CPA
If your household employee’s immediate family member – such as a parent or a spouse – passes away, they will need some time to grieve. They will also have personal arrangements and other legal details to take care of. That’s why it is important to have an established bereavement policy in place in your employment agreement, so discussions can be kept brief in difficult times.
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Topics:
nanny,
nanny tax,
senior,
CPA
Governments are recognizing the need to ensure household employees are paid a living wage and slowly phasing in wage increases over a series of years. Effective July 1, 2022, minimum wage will be increasing in many states and cities across the country. As longtime advocates for fair and legal pay, we believe this is long overdue!
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Topics:
senior care,
nanny,
agency,
senior,
CPA
Venmo, PayPal, and CashApp are popular and convenient apps for making payments electronically. However, if you pay your nanny or other household staff through one of these cash apps, you should be aware of a new tax reporting rule that could impact you and your employees.
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Topics:
nanny,
nanny tax,
nanny employee,
senior,
CPA,
IRS
One in eight individuals in the US carries student loan debt. This burden can feel overwhelming, as is often the case for care workers whose wages have not grown at the same rate as those for whom they work. Luckily there is a relatively new program offering relief.
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Topics:
maid,
nanny retention,
nanny,
caregiver,
Senior Caregiver Payroll,
agency,
senior,
CPA