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Payroll simply means the total sum of money to be paid to employees at a given time. It also includes the list of employee’s names and the amount of their salaries or wages. This is one of the important things when you open up a business your employee’s wages; you need to give to your employees the salaries they worked hard to earn.

Some company’s may have discrepancies when it comes to their employee’s wages, maybe because the boss has many things to think of. But you could always hire someone you trust that could handle that area so you don’t need to worry about it.

Since we are in the computer era there is what they call payroll software, this software will help you make your payroll duties much easier and much faster to finish.

It is very useful especially on mathematical calculations that mostly people are having a hard time on. The software is programmed to solve equations for your payroll with accuracy. When you use the payroll software you also lower the human error such as calculating the numbers wrong or miss some of the numbers that are supposed to be added or subtracted to your employee’s salary.

If you want to try the payroll software then here are some of the best payroll services you could choose from.

SurePayroll

QuickBooks

XpressPayroll

ADP (Automatic Data Processing)

PayCycle Inc.

PayUSA Inc.

Wells Fargo Business Payroll Services

Peachtree

E-chx Inc.

In buying or subscribing to payroll software’s you need to know:

How much it cost will not only be your preference in purchasing the software.

You also need to consider the reputation and the experiences the company that sells this software has.

You also have to know or inquire if the company will represent you to the International Revenue Service if any issues arise.

You also have to check out the payroll software if it suits your company’s needs; do you like the features or how the software works. The functions and if it is user friendly and is easy to operate.

Here are the important features which you should take into account when finding for payroll software.

Automatic tax calculations

Handling of federal forms

Check printing

Customization possibilities

Generation of business reports

Direct deposit capabilities

User friendly and convenience

Have technical support

You should take these tips into account when finding payroll programs, also searching and reading feedback from other users can also be helpful. Remember that affordable software that lacks important features is useless so better buy the expensive complete software than the cheap useless one.

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Outsourcing or offshore outsourcing services is a powerful term with multiple meanings. It’s no different in marketing than in other industries. Brands outsource marketing to agencies. Agencies outsource pieces of projects to freelancers, smaller agencies and new media companies.

So why does a company choose to have outsourcing or offshore outsourcing services as one of their strategies? Well, it can be categorized into two parts: Financial benefits:
You retire costs of agreement on its self-cost and decrease tax base. You don’t pay wage taxes of employees. You won’t pay for leaves of employees and suffer manufacturing difficulties of labor power while they are on the deserved rest. Every new employee of the company increases running costs. Performer would undertake the costs in case of outsourcing. Manufacturing benefits: You would concentrate on solution of the main production problems. You won’t spend your time on searching the required employee. You won’t pay for leaves of employees and suffer manufacturing difficulties of labor power while they are on the deserved rest. You save your personal time, not spending it on employee’s control. The companies specialized on specific services solve problems faster, more qualitative and safely. Organizations today are realizing the importance of the holistic approach to IT strategy, where information is regarded as an essential tool for furthering business. However, these skills may not be available in-house. By outsourcing or offshore outsourcing, one can get access to specialized and professional services. You’ll find that India is well-equipped with qualified and experienced people to provide IT services and IT enabled services.

The following are a list of services that one can outsource to any outsourcing company in India IT and Software Services : Data Entry, Programming IT-enabled Services : Call Centers Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Back-Office Operations
Infrastructure Communications and Networking Media and Entertainment
Web Development Services Operations Relationship Management Community Management Medical Transcription On-site Services Outsourcing and offshore outsourcing are used interchangeably in public discourse despite important technical differences. Outsourcing involves contracting with a supplier, which may or may not involve some degree of offshoring. Offshore outsourcing is the transfer of an organizational function to another country, regardless of whether the work is outsourced or stays within the same corporation/company.

With increasing globalization of outsourcing companies, the distinction between outsourcing and offshore outsourcing will become less clear over time. This is evident in the increasing presence of Indian outsourcing companies in the US and UK. The globalization of outsourcing business model has led to the emergence of new business outsourcing in India, and words such as Nearshoring, noshoring and rightshoring. This is evident in the opening of offices and operating centers for outsourcing to Indian companies in the United States and United Kingdom.

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All doctors, whether they’re ophthalmologists, cardiologists, or endocrinologists, began by studying the same thing: medicine. After that, they moved onto their specialized fields.

All writers begin with the same, basic skill: using language well. After that, they decide how they’ll use that skill. The two possibilities we’re focusing on are copy writing and technical writing.

In the US, if you ask a writer which one he or she is, the answer can be either copy writer, tech writer, or yes. In some parts of the world, particularly the UK and India, and in some specialized markets in the US, writers make a choice between the two. Especially if they have full-time positions. In most markets in North America, among freelance writers, though, the answer is more often yes.

Let’s start by defining our terms. The differences are easiest to see by looking at the extreme ends of the spectrum from tech to copy writing. We agree with our esteemed colleague in Twickenham that the technical in technical writing refers to “a body of information that’s not known or understood by the general public.” That covers areas of information that are usually known only by what are termed experts or specialists. As he put it, “The point about being a technical writer rather than any other type of writer is that we should excel in being able to write in support of technique or proficiency in practical skills. Our job entails explaining how to do things.”

On the other end is copy writing, which is non-technical. Pure copy writers are concerned with consumer communications. Their jobs are to influence target audiences to buy or at least become interested in products or services. Without intending to impune anyone’s reputation, it’s possible to say that copy writers aren’t as concerned with facts as they are with feelings. Their purpose is to get the consumers’ attention and convince them that this or that product is the best there is.

A highly successful creative director used the “cupcake” analogy to separate the two types of writing. She said a copy writer will tell you how good the cupcake is and how pretty the sprinkles are while the technical writer will tell you how to bake the cupcake. It seems that the problem with these two polar-opposites arises when you consider types of writing that don’t fit on either end. What do you call the writer who writes the report on the latest research into cookies or writes an executive summary of that report?

As a senior technical writer from the UK (or technical author as they’re called there) had to admit, “Of course documents that ‘do-not-explain-how’ may also be required from us in the course of our work but they are less relevant to the practice of technical writing as opposed to other types of business communication.” On the other hand, a copy writer may be required to write a document that explains the workings of a new insurance program or the application of a new federal law covering employer/employee negotiations.

Being a technical writer may not always be limited to explaining how to assemble, operate, and service bilateral widgets. And the copy writer isn’t always limited to “selling the sizzle.”

The question becomes: Where does tech writing leave off and copy writing begin? An important distinction is whether you’re a specialist or a generalist. If you write only technical documents that tells how to, you’re certainly a tech writer. If you write only soft copy that tells why, you’re clearly a copy writer. But what if you write both and a lot of things in between? At the TWTK, we don’t think you can put your finger on the exact spot when tech writing becomes copy writing. We see it as a single, sliding scale.

For example, where does writing training fit in? It seems it should be over on the technical writing side because it’s a form of instruction on a process or procedure. That makes it closely related to writing manuals or guides. But, then, what about instructional designers who write about how to perform soft skills such as customer service or sales techniques? They’re not writing ‘technical’ content, but their not writing ‘copy’ either.

We believe that copy writers and tech writers have one important thing in common: they’re both writers first. There are fundamental skills a writer must have whether writing copy or tech material. After that, it’s a matter of what kind of content the focus is on. Our intention is to give some useful tools, help, and encouragement to writers from hard tech to soft copy.

So, why did we call this newsletter the Technical Writer’s Tool Kit? Semantics. Professional writer is too broad an audience. Just writer is also too general since the content isn’t aimed at creative writers who produce poetry, novels, and plays. We could have said “people who write for hire but whose names never appear on what they write,” but that’s kind of long for a masthead.

We settled on technical writer as a place to start with the intention of moving the needle along the scale. We define technical in a wider sense as writing involved with creating the kinds of documents produced regularly by people in all areas of science, medicine, engineering, marketing, government, and education. These include reports, letters, memoranda, executive summaries, manuals, brochures, product descriptions, proposals, tutorials, and articles.

A survey of freelance writers in the Midwest shows that most of them can and do write both technical content and copy. It’s purely a matter of economics. Writers in markets like this have to be prepared to write whatever their clients need. One day it can be a highly technical user manual and the next a customer-focused, medical newsletter or a brochure for a vacation resort.

As one writer put it, “I write whatever they pay me to write from a laundry list to a ransom note.” Whether you’re a copy technical writer or a writer – or both – seems to depend on your description of the work that your business card reads, in which we live, and you write.

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Of the free image editors we have tested our favorite is PhotoPlus 6 by Serif. It allows you to fix and enhance your digital photos in a variety of ways. In addition you can create high quality bitmap images and even web animations. For these reasons it beat out the field of six or so products that can be considered free photo editors.

With PhotoPlus 6 you can enhance your digital pictures with easy creative tools, including: paintbrush, airbrush, clone, smudge and erase. To give you total control there are adjustable brush settings for size, shape, softness and fade. Few free programs allow you to work with layers. PhotoPlus 6 lets you apply bevels and drop shadows to create sophisticated-looking text and images. You can even use the layer manager to make additions and enhancements to images without affecting the originals picture, just like the professional software such as Photoshop CS3! We found it easy to adjust brightness, contrast, sharpness, color hue, saturation, remove red-eye and more! You can enhance, repair and tweak your photos for consistently great results time after time. The flexible and fun deform tool lets you rotate, resize, skew, reshape and add perspective to any selection or even specific layers. This feature is powerful, yet easy to master, providing amazing results. For professional results you can add editable, deformable text to your images and further enhance your text with stunning drop shadows and even create bevel effects. A feature we use on some of our websites is the ability to easily create animated GIFs for websites and presentations. With PhotoPlus this is easier than you think. You could pay a lot for this feature alone!

Another image editor that we like is PaintNET. This program just keeps getting better and better yet in some ways it is also getting easier and more intuitive to use. It features a number of automatic adjustments but as often is the case you will get better results if you take manual control and use your own judgement as to what looks better. This free product like PhotoPlus 6 above, allows you to work in sophisticated ways with layers. Mistakes are no problem with an unlimited undo feature.

The final product we would like to mention is GIMP for Windows. This is an open source product that is constantly evolving. We found it a little difficult to get installed properly but once installed we discovered it to be quite powerful and especially appreciated the dozens of tutorials available. We have used this product to retouch a number of photos with great results.

While none of these free products have even close to the feature set of a product like Photoshop they still will allow you to quickly and easily make sophisticated improvements to your digital images without spending hours figuring out how to make the program work! You may want to install a couple of these free image editing programs to allow you to take advantage of the specific forces each offer.

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There is no doubt that in all walks of life, things have to change in terms the consumption of the earth’s resources, and nowhere is this more obvious than in the recycling of electrical and electronic waste.

Estimates show that t the amount of electronic, electrical and chemical waste produced in a lifetime per person in the western world is about 3.3 tonnes. In the UK alone, 1 million tonnes of electrical and electronic waste goes into landfill every year. Surely this will only increase as time goes on unless actions and attitudes change? Current trends are just not responsible or sustainable. An estimated 1 billion people live below the poverty line, 2 billion people lack safe water, 3.1 billion lack sanitation and millions of children live on rubbish dumps around the world.

And this when around 20% of the world’s population is in the developed world and yet they are responsible for 80% of commercial energy use, 75% of timber consumption, 50% of fish and grain consumption and 40% fresh water consumption

Meanwhile, in 2005, the World Land Trust declared that almost 90% of all office printing and copier cartridges can be reused or recycled. We need to see this happen.

The statistics are scary, but certainly big strides are being made in legislation and environmental standards in the electronics industry. The WEEE directive in the UK and Germany “Blue Angel” scheme are two such initiatives. Sanctions against companies who ignore their responsibilities are severe.

However, on an individual basis when it comes to buying new equipment, everyone can do their bit by taking time to learn a little more about the environmental impact of certain types of equipment. For example, when it comes to office or home printers, we can recognise that longevity and durability is not restricted to the body of the printer only. Just as important are the moving parts and imaging elements of the printer.

Different manufacturers, and different machines across any individual manufacturers range, have configurations which increase user-convenience by integrating all the mission-critical elements into one disposal replacement kit. It is not hard to see that that the short-term cost saving [ which actually in some cases may not be so great] and convenience can have a high cost in terms of correct and managed disposal of the replacement parts.

Inkjet printers are largely configured either with an integrated ink tank/print head or with long-lasting print head with separate ink tank(s). Additionally there are variations on the long-lasting print head configuration. These can comprise those with replaceable heads OR those with permanent units that are factory fitted with no user-replaceable parts. Lexmark are exclusively in the first category, with integrated cartridges only, and Brother and Epson are exclusively in the final category with fixed, long-life print heads only. Canon and Hewlett-Packard are in both categories, with both configurations found in their product range, while Hewlett-Packard also has models based on both replaceable AND permanent long-life print head

Where Laser printers are concerned, the situation is very much the same. Some manufacturers use single-piece toner cartridges where the whole, business-end imaging system is contained within one unit, while others split the unit down into component parts.

These components in essence, comprise the toner cassette, the developing roller and the OPC (imaging) drum. There are configurations that either split all three elements apart or simply split off the toner cassette from the mechanical elements (developer roller and OPC drum) that are contained in an imaging unit. In some instances (more typical of colour laser printers) the developer roller and the toner are combined with a separate OPC drum.

Print engine manufacturers typically employing the single-piece design include (for mono laser printers) Canon; Lexmark; Ricoh; and Fuji Xerox. Those typically employing a two- or three-piece configuration, but also some single-piece units include: Brother; Konica Minolta; Oki; and Sharp.

Lexmark is in the position of being a majority single-piece manufacturer with some printers that have a multi-part build. Kyocera is in a category of its own with an ultra long-life OPC drum configuration.

On the Total Cost of Printing agenda, printers with multipart configurations were once guaranteed to offer a lower Cost Per Page overall. But this is no longer the case because manufacturers have realised the power of marketing based on Cost Per Page and not on the cost of the consumable items with ink or toner.

Generally speaking, at the higher end of the market, mono laser printers use a single-piece toner cartridge with all the imaging elements contained within it. This is because the drum is worked hard and it would be very difficult to reel life for the life of the ink cartridge (especially in 32000 pages per cartridge).

However, even in these cases, there are significant environmental effects as a result of long years of life, many parts of the course – for the user the printer as a producer in the world.

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* How does it work?

* Hosting Vs dedicated

* Features of SharePoint

* Integration with Microsoft Office

* Benefits of SharePoint

* Case Study

* Free Trial

How it works

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 is a program that has been specially designed to work with products from the range of Microsoft Office. They are available through the web browser Internet Explorer or use Microsoft Outlook 2007, MicrosoftSharePoint 2007 provides businesses with an easy to use web portal or extranet system. Users can upload documents to SharePoint in several ways:

* By logging into their SharePoint 2007 site and uploading the document directly

* Directly from Microsoft Office applications, e.g. Word, Excel

* By e-mailing a document directly to the SharePoint site.

SharePoint allows workers to perform the following tasks:

* Collaborate with co-workers on group tasks and activities

* Share resources and business intelligence

* Manage and create content

* Search for people and information quickly and easily

* Create workflows and business forms to streamline your business practices.

Hosted vs. Dedicated

SharePoint services are available in two forms: Hosted and Dedicated.

Hosted SharePoint – Hosted SharePoint is based on a SaaS (software as a service) shared platform, which is suitable for most customers. This is a low cost option for running your own SharePoint sites without the need to purchase or maintain any hardware or Software.

Dedicated SharePoint – For customers with specialized requirements or who require their own server equipment, Genesis Communications have dedicated SharePoint Server solutions. These range from a single server to a tailor-made, advanced system.

Dedicated Microsoft SharePoint 2007 allows for an unlimited number of SharePoint sites, with an unlimited number of users and custom Business applications.

Features of SharePoint

* Create team workspaces

* Coordinate calendars

* Organize documents

* Receive important notifications and updates through communication features including announcements and alerts

* Create Company and employee blogs to publish information internally or externally

* Create virtual meeting spaces to reduce travel for meetings

* Create Online Surveys to gain instant feedback

* Take advantage of convenient offline synchronization capabilities.

Integration with Microsoft Office

SharePoint has the ability to fully integrate with all programs in the Microsoft Office suite to create the ultimate business utility with the following applications:

PowerPoint 2007 – With SharePoint, you can create a library of PowerPoint slides that can be shared with other users on an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site.

Office Access 2007 – Synchronising SharePoint with Access will allow you to use the reporting features to view data and create reports whilst offline.

Office Outlook 2007 – SharePoint allows you to take document libraries offline which are displayed just as other Outlook folders are.

InfoPath 2007 – Users can create form templates then publish them to an Office SharePoint Server 2007 site. You can then enable them for use in a Web browser.

Office Excel 2007 – Save worksheets on a SharePoint site so that users can access them by using a browser. You can use these to maintain and efficiently share one central, up-to-date version of all worksheets.

SharePoint Designer 2007 – Users can create their own master and content pages, so that your site has a consistent look and feel. For the more technically minded, you can customise sites using the latest ASP.NET technology and XHTML code.

Benefits of SharePoint

* Easily manage documents

* Ensure integrity of content

* Improve team productivity

* Give employees or suppliers secure document access

* Automate Customer or Supplier interaction using a Web portal

* Easily Track the progress of Company Projects

* Convenient offline synchronization capabilities

* Employee Presence Awareness – see if workers are online

* Reduce travel costs by allowing virtual meetings to take place

* Reduce HR costs by automating regular administration such as expense forms, holiday requests, sick leave, access to employee handbook etc.

* Reduce Operational costs by allowing the creation of ‘workflows’.

Case Study

ABC Engineering Ltd has 8 employees, consisting of 3 users at head office, 2 users at their site office, 2 mobile workers (1 sales and 1 support) and also 1 home-based worker in accounts.

Genesis Communications created a tailor-made Hosted SharePoint 2007 solution for ABC, with a digital certificate to ensure their SharePoint data is encrypted and secure.

Each user has access to the Internet with mobile workers using either their windows mobiles or laptops using Vodafone mobile broadband adapters.

Each group of users can have access to their own part of the company’s SharePoint system, based on templates for their specific application.

For example, HR has access to an expense reimbursement and approval template and with the support of the department have access to the model of Help Desk.

This integration enables companies to streamline their operations work, which leads to greater efficiency and productivity.

Free Trial

Being the media on day 14, has no obligation free trial version of SharePoint. This gives clients the opportunity to "try on" Sharepoint before buying.

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Time of the year is near and auditing period is here again. Challenges faced by accountants and businessmen are always understood. In this issue, we inspect the need of using web-based or online accounting system as compared to desktop accounting. We will also look into factors to consider before implementing web-based accounting system or online accounting solutions.

Here, we are talking about desktop accounting where you buy boxed software off the shelf, install onto your computer and use it. Web-based accounting system will have you login to your system using Internet Explorer and process transactions via the Internet.

Desktop Accounting

Let us first examine desktop accounting. Fast, really simple, easy-to-use and comprises of all basic features of accounting. Anyone can simply buy the software off-shelf and use immediately. A majority of account clerks are familiar with desktop accounting, making it easier to implement such system. Come auditing time and ending financial year, accountants and auditors will spend time examining full year accounting records, do currency realizations for the full 365-day period, check on records and authorize financial reports. One-system-fits-all as accounting principles is quite similar. So, if desktop accounting is meant for your business, continue using it until there is a need to upgrade. Allow me to shed lights into why “higher grades” of accounting systems are needed.

Web-based Accounting

When companies grow larger and expand, one system does not fit all anymore. Even companies in the same industry may have different accounting practices. Example, a company allows a post-dated cheque to be included as credit limit but another company may think otherwise.

Understanding different needs in accounting, we figure out a few key points to look at when purchasing a web-based accounting system. 1. Up-front costs 2. Implementation Speed 3. Security and Accessibility 4. Configurable and Scalability 5. Support and Training

Implement a “ready-made” web-based accounting will be more affordable and quicker to deploy compared to writing your own accounting software. While programmers and software developers can write codes, too seldom an Information Technology expert could also understand accounting and financial terms unless he is well-trained and experienced in both fields.

Web-based accounting systems host your data in a server. Therefore, utilize services like data replication and backups. Also find out if data can be saved or exported to a file format you could use, such as a spreadsheet. Most vendors charge extra for these services, do ask for the pricing as well.

You have the flexibility to access a web-based accounting system anywhere and have overall control even if you have multi-companies in multiple locations. Contradicting this feature, you will want that a web-based accounting system allows security in restricting access – you do not want everyone to access your accounting data everywhere.

Also ensure that the system can be configured to your needs. First list down requirements for your accounting needs and find out if the system could fulfill your needs. Ensure that the system is scalable – can be upgraded and integrate with other modules easily. You normally look into implementing a new system because your business is expanding. So, if your software does not support your business expansion, do not rely on it.

Desktop accounting system is simple enough to deploy due to its simplicity. Not in the case of web-based accounting system because its flexibility and additional functionality also allows for a little "more difficult to study. So, you want to ensure that suppliers are now post-sales support and training.

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Numbered labels can be very useful for both personal and business purposes. They can help you keep track of personal things, for example boxes of your items when moving or in the filing of personal documents, and can also be used in business to monitor items, in the office and really to use on anything that you need to identify and separate quickly and efficiently.

Like any label, these numbered labels can be as simple or as detailed as you like. Printing just the large required number on the label can be eye-catching and time-saving, but other details such as codes, texts, a picture and even a logo can be added to the labels too if more information is needed to be displayed. You can really personalize your numbered labels to ensure that they serve the purpose that they are required for.

Numbered labels can be printed on many colours of label but it is standard for them to be printed on a white background and this is recommended for visual purposes and easy identification. However, this doesn’t mean that your label design has to be boring. You can still alter the font of your text. Arial Black is a common font choice for those wanting the printed information to be bold and to really stand out, Times New Roman is often used by those wanting a more traditional look, Comic Sans is popular for a more casual look but other fonts such as Curlz and Monotype Corsiva can really add a fun or more sophisticated look to the text. The best thing to do is to explore the different fonts and find one that suits you and the purposed of the label. The colour of the font can then also be varied. It is common for it to be printed to match a company logo but really can be any colour that you want depending on what your labels are for. Again, the best way to find the right font colour for your labels is to have a play around with the different fonts and colours and try to find one that makes the labels really effective.

If you are printing your own labels it is likely that you will need to do a mail merge in order to print your numbered labels but this will vary depending on what design program you have. Mail merges can be quite time consuming and take a while to sort out properly but will often result in success. You will also require the plain labels to be printed on. It is best to check different suppliers of these and look for the best quality at the best price. Printing your labels this way can often mean that you actually have to buy more labels than you really need as often they come in packs of quite large quantities and therefore you will have to pay a little bit more.

If you don’t want to print the labels yourself and don’t want to purchase a large number of plain labels, it is recommended that you find a reliable label printer to print your numbered labels for you. There are online label printers with user-friendly and secure websites where you can enter your required information and they will print and send your labels to you. This can save a lot of time and even money if you don’t require a very large quantity of labels and they offer smaller quantities (around 500 labels). Make sure you choose a website that offers what you want, can get your labels to you when you need them, is clear and offers you the design choices you require and that is secure. You will then soon have efficient numbered labels to use however is required.

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Nevada has no State Income Tax. There for there is no State Agency to oversee withholding deposits and reports. There are no State W2’s to file, no supplement wage withholding rates and no State W2’s to file.

Not all states allow salary reductions made under Section 125 cafeteria plans or 401(k) to be treated in the same manner as the IRS code allows. In Nevada cafeteria plans are taxable for unemployment insurance purposes. 401(k) plan deferrals are taxable unemployment purposes.

Nevada doesn’t have income tax.

The Nevada State Unemployment Insurance Agency is:

Employment Security Division

500 E. Third St.

Carson City, NV 89713

(775) 687-4510

http://www.detr.state.nv.us/es/es_index.htm

The State of Nevada taxable wage base for unemployment purposes is wages up to $22,000.00.

Nevada has optional reporting of quarterly wages on magnetic media.

Unemployment records must be retained in Nevada for a minimum period of four years. This information generally includes: name; social security number; dates of hire, rehire and termination; wages by period; payroll pay periods and pay dates; date and circumstances of termination.

The Nevada State Agency charged with enforcing the state wage and hour laws is:

Department of Business and Industry

Office of Labor Commissioner

555 East Washington Avenue

Las Vegas, NV 89101

(702) 486-2750

http://www.laborcommissioner.com/

The minimum wage in Nevada is $5.15 per hour.

The general provision in Nevada concerning paying overtime in a non-FLSA covered employer is one and one half times regular rate after 8-hour or 40-hour week (10-hour day, 4-day week if agreed to).

Nevada State new hire reporting requirements are that every employer must report every new hire and rehire. The employer must report the federally required elements of:

Employee’s name
Employee’s address
Employee’s social security number
Employer’s name
Employers address
Employer’s Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)

This information must be reported within 20 days of the hiring or rehiring.

The information can be sent as a W4 or equivalent by mail, fax or electronically.

There is a $25.00 penalty for a late report in Nevada.

The Nevada new hire-reporting agency can be reached at 888-639-7241 or 775-684-8685 or on the web at [http://detr.state.nv.us/uicont/uicont_newhire.htm]

Nevada does not allow compulsory direct deposit

Nevada requires the following information on an employee’s pay stub:

itemized deductions

Nevada requires that employee be paid no less often than semimonthly; FLSA-exempt employees paid by out-of-state employers can be paid monthly.

Nevada requires that the lag time between the end of the pay period and the payment of wages earned from 1st-15th, pay by end of month; 16th-end of month, pay by 15th of next month to the employee.

Nevada payroll law requires that involuntarily terminated employees must be paid their final pay immediately and that voluntarily terminated employees must be paid their final pay earlier of next regular payday or 7 days.

Deceased employee’s wages must be paid when normally due to the surviving spouse or distributee after affidavit of right is shown; 40 days after death; and if the estate is not over $20,000.

Escheat laws in Nevada require that unclaimed wages be paid over to the state after one year.

There is no provision in Nevada law concerning record retention of abandoned wage records.

Nevada payroll law mandates no tip credit may be used against State minimum wage.

There is no provision in Nevada law concerning tip credits against State minimum wage.

In Nevada the payroll laws covering mandatory rest or meal breaks are only that all employees must have 30 minutes rest after eight hours of work; 10 minutes rest after 4 hours.

Nevada statute requires that wage and hour records be kept for a period of not less than two years. These records will normally consist of at least the information required under FLSA.

The Nevada agency charged with enforcing Child Support Orders and laws is:

Child Support Enforcement Program

Human Resources Division

100 N. Carson St.

Capitol Complex

Carson City, NV 89701-4717

(702) 687-4744

[http://www.hr.state.nv.us/]

Nevada has the following provisions for child support deductions:

When to start Withholding? 14 days after receipt of order.

When to send Payment? Within 7 days of Payday.

When to send Termination Notice? “Promptly”

Maximum Administrative Fee? $3 per payment; $2 per payment to state treasurer.

Withholding Limits? Federal Rules under CCPA.

Please note This article is not updated for changes that can and will occur from time to time.

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China offers appealing business opportunities because of a highly skilled workforce, attractive wage levels, reliable IT and telecom infrastructure and government support for foreign ventures. Most attractive of all, of course, is the world’s largest and fastest-growing market.

Domestic demand for consumer products and services expands annually in China, and did so even during 2008-09 global economic slowdowns. In turn, there’s a strong need for Western expertise to design, market and administer insurance, banking, investment and credit services.

North American and European companies that have business process, R&D or manufacturing operations in India or Southeast Asia increasingly recognize that prudent risk management means diversifying with a second location in a separate region with a large, well-educated labor supply.

China provides an inviting commercial arena that meets all requirements to assure uninterrupted operations, although it has entry hurdles for foreign-based newcomers. They include:

• Extensive location choices: National and provincial governments support numerous High-Technology Industries Development Zones and software parks in regions with lower labor and facility costs than in the business centers of Beijing and Hong Kong.

• Navigating the bureaucracy: While China welcomes foreign enterprises and encourages private ventures, an elaborate series of permits, licenses and other paperwork are required by municipal, provincial and central government agencies.

• Site development: Leasing, remodeling, equipping and maintaining workplaces for international business requires prescreening local vendors, soliciting and evaluating bids, negotiating contracts and overseeing installation of work stations, electronic networks, telecommunications, backup capabilities and other logistics.

• Recruiting and training: Reliable, well-educated managers and qualified production employees are widely available — and in demand by Western firms. An experienced business process outsouricng (BPO) company can provide industry knowledge and local contacts that are essential to recruit, hire, orient, train and retain skilled workers who can perform back-office functions reliably — services a general employment agency clearly cannot provide.

This White Paper illustrates how the Build – Operate – Transfer approach lets foreign-based providers in the BPO industry or other fields develop an efficient production center in China through a limited-time startup relationship with an experienced local partner.

The Build-Operate-Transfer Model

As the name indicates, B-O-T is a three-stage process that lets companies outsource the logistics of establishing offshore capacity to deliver services, develop products or perform manufacturing. To gain a secure foothold in China at minimal risk, software developers and other Information Technology Outsourcing companies currently rely on this proven business model — which is especially well-suited to the BPO industry.

The business owner forms a strategic alliance with an experienced local partner already established in the same industry who plans and manages every aspect of opening and running one or more work centers in the first two stages — Build and Operate. (”Build” refers to constructing a client-dedicated operation, not a physical location.)

The final stage — which arrives after a contractually specified time, productivity/quality level or a combination of factors — brings a Transfer of all tangible and intangible business assets to the owner.

During each of the first two phases, the local partner’s industry experience and host country familiarity are applied to:

Achieve the foreign owner’s business objectives
Transfer knowledge from the client to managers and workers it will inherit
Uphold the owner’s best practices, quality levels and other requirements
Maximize short-term and long-range profitability for the owner

This model can be applied to a variety of industries and to small, mid-size or large MNCs, and has proven to be effective in China.

BOT also provides powerful advantages for business process service providers.Benefits for new and existing BPO companies expanding to China are evident from the following look at services furnished between the first steps and the final business transfer.

Services at Each Stage

A detailed contract specifies the work production, space, staffing, wage rates, English proficiency, productivity, quality levels and other metrics that the client wants in exchange for a management fee and reimbursement of actual costs. After this needs assessment and planning stage, the local partner then assigns a setup team exclusively to the project.

That team conducts a site selection review of real estate matching the client’s requirements for size, location, cost, capabilities, amenities and other factors. Reports, diagrams and photos are furnished so that the client’s project team can analyze options and the local partner’s recommendation.

Next, lease terms are negotiated and site preparation begins. Work spaces are configured, furnishings and production equipment are procured, and services are arranged (telecommunications, high-speed Internet with backup, etc.) In this Build stage, the local partner also secures required permits, licenses and other registrations from the Ministry of Commerce and regional government departments.

While workplace development is under way, the Operate phase starts with staffing (labor arbitrage). Qualified personnel are invited to apply, are pre-screened, are interviewed and are hired for work only on the client’s business.

Knowledge transfer is the next step — and one that continues throughout the Operate stage. Managers, supervisors and employees are given orientation and training to become well-prepared for handling the client’s work processes at an expected pace.

Maintaining and expanding skills is a vital part of the operating agreement. Clients should look for a service partner who recognizes the importance of continuous, adaptable training to prepare employees for:

Progressive advancement
New client projects
Next-generation software and hardware

Continuing education — combined with on-site English-improvement classes, if wanted — helps increase staff reliability, retention and value to the client. Human resources groomed by the local partner, after all, are among assets the client inherits at Transfer.

The Operate portion involves work supervision, quality assurance, record-keeping, purchasing, facility maintenance, government liaison and administrative support services (invoicing, payment processing and other accounting tasks, if requested).

At the Transfer to client ownership and management, after perhaps one to three years (based on a pre-determined scale), the local partner arranges a transition of leases, vendor contracts, utilities, personnel, administrative services and other functions during an orderly process of joint supervision.

The client inherits all training and procedure manuals, proprietary software, work product templates, business records and other intellectual property generated on its behalf.

–> Key points

Client-stipulated quality assured from the start and at each step of growth
New operation is a seamless extension of client’s work environment
Client inherits a smoothly functioning team familiar with its processes
Client captures valuable support documents and proprietary software
Fixed-fee arrangement eliminates startup risks and assures budget control

Ideal Fit for BPO

Unlike software or electronic product suppliers, who use small technical teams to conduct R&D at offshore testing and development centers, BPO providers typically rely on hundreds of multiple-shift employees to enter data, process forms, convert records, verify claims, perform coding and handle other back-office services.

BPO also has a critical need for absolutely reliable infrastructure — power, telecommunications, high-speed Internet access — to deliver deadline-sensitive work without interruption.

China’s size and sophistication assure that it can meet all labor and infrastructure demands.

Companies can achieve significant gains in costs, time and productivity through a BOT alliance with an established partner in China who has a working knowledge of Western business methods — knowledge that is transferred swiftly and seamlessly.

In addition to needing a large, skilled labor pool, BPO players depend on advanced, reliable infrastructure. broadband Internet access from redundant service providers, multiple international telecom lines, top-level data security and separate servers for each client.

Moreover, the nature of project-driven BPO accounts means that workflow can expand abruptly — again requiring readily available personnel with data processing experience. Scalable growth may require facility expansion or secondary site setup.

While IT Outsourcing may allow flexible project schedules and adjustable delivery targets at times, BPO providers cannot afford delays or workflow interruptions. Speed and dependability are essential for back-office service providers, whose own clients rely on timeliness in the same way that automotive manufacturers in China, Japan and the United States rely on Just-in-Time deliveries from parts suppliers.

Internal Perspective

Providers with deep cultural and business roots in China are well-positioned to pave an obstacle-free BOT path for newcomers who currently operate in India or in their home bases of Europe or North America. These indigenous Chinese entrepreneurs already have an inside perspective of Business Process Outsourcing — as well as of China itself.

They have well-refined recruiting networks, training procedures, operating methods and quality standards. Relationships with vendors, landlords, universities and government regulators all pay immediate dividends for their foreign BOT partners. As London-based

HSBC Bank says in advertisements: “Never underestimate the importance of local knowledge.”

–> Key points

Local BPO veterans have significant host country relationships
Established partner assures continuity of operations at new site
Reliable recruiting and training from a large workforce shorten startup time
Client avoids infrastructure investments during startup
Client can focus on marketing and core business, not support functions at new site
Strategic alliance maximizes ROI

Why a China Site Makes Sense

China is widely recognized as one of the lowest-cost producers in the world. But that’s just one reason why it is the base for a growing share of BPO for clients from North America, Europe and Asia.

Equally important are government support, social-political stability, technical skills, a large and highly educated workforce, Internet and telecommunications networks that meet international standards, cost advantages and entry into the World Trade Organization.

Since joining the WTO in 2001, China has rapidly become a global economic force. Thirty-seven Chinese companies are on the latest Fortune 500 list.

As more multinational corporations participate in China’s dramatic transformation, they and their local partners adapt Western best practices to Chinese cultural and economic conditions.

In addition to those attractions for BPO providers and other industries, a presence in China provides another huge opportunity — access to a country with 1.3 billion people and rapidly expanding markets for business services, consumer services and consumer products. China’s GDP grew by 9 percent in 2008 and 7.7 percent during the first three-quarters of 2009.

Outsourcing can strategically assist expansion into Asian markets, product launches and development of new business models.

As more companies move into China to capitalize on growing demand for industrial and consumer products, firms with little or no experience in China and are vulnerable to various mistakes.

Backup Capacity = Risk Management

The same principles behind business insurance, duplicate records storage, IT security safeguards and disaster recovery plans also apply to BPO operations overseas. Because quick turnaround and continuity are critical, BPO providers with sites in India increasingly recognize that maintaining backup capability at a second site within that country does not provide sufficient safeguards.

A study from AMR Research in Boston warns: “Companies with offshore experience should mitigate offshore outsourcing risk by moving beyond India. High worker attrition rates, the danger of natural disasters, a hostile relationship with Pakistan and religious strains as reasons why many companies are looking to non-India locations in order to minimize the risk of geo-political destabilization.”

Climbing wages, rising worker turnover rates, labor shortage forecasts and sometimes-unreliable infrastructure are among reasons why Western companies with support operations in India now also have partnerships with service providers in China. Corporations such as Whirlpool, United Technologies, Danaher and Sweetheart Consumer Products have diversified this way.

Even Indian-owned companies such as Infosys and Wipro now develop software in China, where labor costs are lower and a well-trained workforce is much more plentiful.

Government Addresses Concerns

Chinese leaders, eager to solidify and extend their republic’s major role in international commerce, are responding to concerns about legal protections, financial safeguards and communication skills. The government is committed to enhancing trust and confidence in China’s market economy, which has evolved significantly since reforms

began during the 1980s.

As part of the current Five-Year Plan, the State Council Information Office has drafted legislation regulating governing digital signatures and is working on methods to improve the security of information and communications systems. It prepared China’s first personal data protection law in 2005.

New privacy and intellectual property safeguards emerged from a year-long study into best practices in Europe, North America and Australasia. The legislation is seen as essential in the furtherance of both the ITO and BPO industries.

Education improvements to expand technical proficiency and English language abilities also are a priority.

–> Key Points

• Outsourcing to China diversifies risks for India-based operators

• China presence provides foothold in world’s fastest-growing market

• Government is responding effectively to legal protection and language education needs

For all reasons outlined, BPO providers with operations in India or Southeast Asia increasingly recognize that prudent risk management to assure continuity means diversifying with a location in a various fields, which offers a wide range of well-educated with attractive prices.

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