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Lunch and Learn

The Lunch and Learn Series is a group of five 60-minute webinars to strengthen your payroll knowledge and professional skills. Topics include: Payroll Accounting, Final Pay: What Must Be included, Interacting with Multiple Generations, Skillful Collaboration, and The Intricate Art of Juggling Sick Leave.

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Payroll Systems Selection and Implementation

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Payroll System Selection and Implementation

This course will lead you though the multiple steps organizations use to select the correct system or technology. You will learn the steps required to successfully implement the system from developing the project plan through to supporting the system after go-live.

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Paytrain Fundamentals

This product is ideal for new payroll professionals, those who support the payroll industry, and those who are preparing for FPC certification.

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APA’s Guide to Local Payroll Taxes

This product provides information on the different types of local payroll taxes that payroll departments must comply with, including city service fees; city, county, and school district income taxes; occupational privilege taxes and license fees; payroll expense taxes; and mass transit taxes.

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Featured APA News

Three-Month Delay, Rate Change for Massachusetts PFML Contributions

There will be a three-month delay for withholding and remitting Massachusetts paid family and medical leave contributions. Initially scheduled to begin July 1, contribution withholding will now begin on October 1, 2019. Also, the contribution rate is adjusted to 0.75% to offset the three-month delay [S.B. 2255, L. 2019].
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Digital Payroll Delivery: Benefits and Best Practices for SMBs

The value of electronic payroll distribution is recognized by employers large and small, but all too often it is the small- to medium-sized business (SMB) owner that is both slow to adopt, and not reaping the benefits of what should be a simple solution to one of their core tasks—getting people paid.
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USCIS Extends Comment Period for Form I-9

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it will allow the public an additional 30 days to comment on its proposal to extend the current version of Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. The comment period now ends on July 5.
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