5 Top Highly Effective Things To Do When Hiring Workers for Your Household or Property

Keep It Legal and be Mindful

Teresa Leigh

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  1. Employ a payroll company, it is easy hire a company to process payroll every two weeks. As a general rule a payroll period starts on a Monday and ends on Sunday at 12:00 a.m. ( midnight )
  2. The payroll company will supply the employer and employee forms needed to process payroll
  3. Assign a bank account to draw funds for payroll, this information will be made available to the payroll company.
  4. Provide employees payroll time sheets requiring them to fill in when they arrived and departed during their work week, these will be collected at the end of each pay period. Payroll sheets once approved will be forwarded to payroll for processing. As an employer you are responsible for signing off on number of hours worked. Employees must receive a print out of wages earned and those taxes paid.
  5. Household workers who are hourly workers: housekeepers, nannies, handymen, personal assistants, gardener, in-home care givers, elder care givers, and mothers helpers. These workers are due overtime wages when working over 40 hours in one work week. *Important note: the California rule for over-time wages: to those hourly employees who worked over 8 hours in one work day.