Workplace violence isn’t just limited to high-risk jobs such as police officers, taxi drivers and late night convenience store clerks. It happens everywhere, as illustrated by recent high-profile cases. Workplace shootings have occurred at all types of businesses including factories, hospitals, engineering firms, advertising agencies and colleges. Testing Issues Some employers have tried testing to gauge the propensity for violence...

The free use of a company car is one of the best perks an employee may be entitled to as part of a compensation package. But the benefit to the employee isn’t completely “free” under current tax law. Essentially, personal use of a company car is treated as a taxable fringe benefit, subject to income tax...

It’s probably impossible for your company to eliminate any chance of harassment, but there are precautions you can take to help win a lawsuit filed by an employee: Above all, have a sound company policy against harassment, which includes discrimination based on sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age or disability. Make sure your employees are aware of the...

Generally speaking, if you have a physical presence in a state, you must register with that state and file tax returns. It becomes more complicated if you sell into a state where you don’t have a physical presence. The purpose of this article is to make you aware of the need to evaluate your operations to determine if you have multi-state filing and registration requirements.

Gardiner Thomsen understands how important security is to you, which is why we have recently put into place a new method of exchanging important documents and secure data with our clients. We recently released an article explaining how this works but we want to make sure you know where to access the login to ensure that this is user friendly for everyone.

Thank you to everyone who was able to attend our hospitality room in Minneapolis on December 5th during the CHS Annual Meeting. We have had the pleasure of hosting a hospitality room during this annual event for many years now and were very pleased with the turn out this year!