Payroll

Employment in the private sector rose by 130,000 jobs from September to October, according to payroll giant ADP’s monthly National Employment Report, as the economy contended with uncertainty from the government shutdown.

Payroll provider Paychex has partnered with Biz2Credit, an online credit resource for small businesses, to offer the Paychex Small Business Loan Resource Center, an online resource that gives business owners access to more than 1,200 lenders offering various loan options for businesses’ specific financing needs.

The Tax & Accounting business of Thomson Reuters has introduced new bi-directional integration between its Accounting CS Payroll software and the Time Rack time, attendance, and human resources product.

There was lots of vendor and consultant news over the past week, but overall we want to know what’s up with all the funding going into cloud accounting software, and where exactly does Intuit factor in?

AccountantWorld has upgraded its cloud-based payroll-processing system for accountants, Payroll Relief.

New York-based Justworks has officially launched its online payroll and benefits platform, Justworks.com designed for new businesses to manage payroll and offer large-company benefits while ensuring legal compliance.

SurePayroll Inc., a provider of online payroll services to small businesses, has found that optimism among small business owners has fallen to 59 percent, after being as high as 72 percent in the prior month, amid concerns about health care reform and the government shutdown.

Mastering payroll compliance continues to be a challenge that many small business owners struggle to control.

Paychex has purchased a minority stake in and formed a strategic alliance with cloud accounting software provider Kashoo.

Paychex Inc. has a new SaaS platform to provide human resource administrators with all Paychex services accessible in one place.

Private sector employment rose by 166,000 jobs in September, according to a report released Wednesday by payroll giant ADP, indicating a continuing slowdown in recent months in job gains across the still fragile economy.

The Congressional Budget Office is seeing a $400 billion reduction in the federal government’s budget deficit for the current fiscal year, thanks to increased tax revenues due largely to the expiration of the payroll tax cut.

ADP has added new features to its ADP Workforce New software to help midsize employers comply with the requirements of the Affordable Care Act.

Private sector employers added 176,000 jobs from July to August, with job gains once again broadly distributed across industries, according to payroll giant ADP.

Executives at online accounting product maker Xero acknowledged that they still have a lot of awareness work to do in the U.S. market and are hoping new and enhanced product offerings will help grow its partner base – who are primarily accounting firms -- as well as customers.

Private sector employment increased in all nine U.S. Census Bureau Divisions in July, according to payroll giant ADP, with Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, California, Washington and Texas among the states demonstrating the strongest job growth last month.

ADP has integrated its ezLaborManager product with RUN Powered by ADP Payroll for Partners, with the goal of allowing accountants and other payroll service providers to help their clients with compliance while collecting employee hours and calculating and reporting time and attendance.

Employment at small businesses in the U.S. declined by 10,000 jobs in July, while average compensation and hours worked also dropped, according to figures from Intuit.

Employers in 17 states (and the Virgin Islands) may not be eligible to claim the maximum amount of state unemployment tax credits on their 2013 federal unemployment tax return, because their state has had an outstanding federal unemployment insurance loan for at least two years, according to tax analysts at Thomson Reuters Checkpoint.

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in July, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, sending the unemployment rate down by two-tenths of a percentage point to 7.4 percent, although many of the gains were in low-wage jobs.