Payroll

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.

Technology, as opposed to new hiring, is driving much of the growth at small businesses, with 72 percent of small businesses doing more business online than they did a year ago, according to a survey by payroll service provider SurePayroll.

Private sector employers added 200,000 jobs from June to July, with the job gains distributed across all sizes of businesses and in many industries, including professional and business services.

Payroll giant ADP has introduced myAline, online and mobile financial management technology to give employees visibility, information and access to help them better manage their money and make more informed spending decisions.

Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 195,000 in June, and job gains in April and May were revised upward, but the unemployment rate was unchanged at 7.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.

Private sector employment increased by 188,000 jobs from May to June, according to payroll giant ADP, providing further evidence that the economy is slowly recovering despite payroll tax increases and government spending cuts.