Employee or Independent Contractor: What?s the difference?
Posted on June 5, 2008 - Filed Under Finance | Leave a Comment
New entrepreneurs need to have a strong respect for employee issues and legal regulations. Employee rights law has become a major issue in today’s workplace. It is crucial that employees are classified correctly as there are large tax implications and penalties when they are misclassified.
An employer must generally withhold income, social security and Medicare taxes, and pay unemployment taxes as well as the employer’s portion of social security and Medicare taxes on any wages paid to an employee. An employer does not generally have to withhold or pay any taxes on payments to independent contractors.
Read More..>>Education In Spa Management Is Critical For Long-term Career Success
Posted on March 30, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
Would you try to pilot a plane without the necessary training? Of course not—you know you’d crash and burn! Yet many spas whose owners wouldn’t dream of doing anything as foolhardy as stepping into a cockpit without the necessary training put untrained managers in charge of a spa.
Failure to train is a one-way ticket to failure. Without appropriate managerial training for those in charge, your spa business will crash and burn just as surely as a plan with an untrained pilot would.
Read More..>>Advice For People Who Have A Drinking Problem
Posted on March 15, 2008 - Filed Under Health and Fitness | Leave a Comment
Have you got a drinking problem? Are you an alcoholic? Are you looking for advice about curing your drink problem? If you have answered yes to one or more of these questions then I am hoping that this article will prove beneficial for you. I have just witnessed the fall from grace of a good friend of mine, a couple of years ago he was on top of the world, he seemingly had it all. Then alcohol got the better of him, he now feels that he has lost everything and today is at a very low point in his life.
Read More..>>Resolve The Hidden Cause Of Problem
Posted on February 29, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
We have all been in a conversation or worked with someone, and we’ve all had something to say but debated whether we should even bother saying it. Or maybe you had an idea or advice to give and thought, “Should I say it or not? Ah, forget it, they probably don’t want to hear it, and it will probably just cause an argument. It isn’t worth it.”
Before you stop to answer whether it is worth bringing up or not, consider these statistics:
Read More..>>Things To Remember In Resume Writing
Posted on February 25, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
People often talk about good resumes and resume-writing skills, but you may be intrigued as to what is a good resume all about and what can one possibly consider to create an impressive resume. To show some direction to these lost job-hunters, here we have given some pointers that can help your resume go from the huge pile to the employer’s hands.
First and foremost, set a goal—the kind of job you want to apply for, what career you want to built, etc. Without this, your resume loses focus and may reduce to just an unwanted piece of paper. Knowing your career objective would allow you to create the right content for your resume.
Read More..>>The Legality Of Monitoring Systems
Posted on January 25, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
It is not possible to avoid collection of information which is not completely related to worker work performance and potentially can be abused, because monitoring systems were introduced. To be more definite, computer data banks, active badges, and telephone/video monitoring systems collect information related to employee’s safety clearance, computer application preferences, right and left handedness, and even informal behavior. It is not a secret that such information is collected but the way in which information is used remains a mystery. It is very complicated, if not impossible to check the ways in which confidential worker information is used.
Read More..>>Succession Done Right The First Time Around
Posted on January 15, 2008 - Filed Under Business | Leave a Comment
In an ideal world, a CEO selects and preps a successor. He shows up at his retirement party, collects the gold watch, and heads for a life of bliss on teeing grounds and putting greens. His replacement hops onto the throne, transitions smoothly, and everyone lives happily ever after. Unfortunately, there’s a big gap between the ideal and the real, because outgoing business leaders unknowingly take the wrong approach to succession planning.
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