New Task Helps Employers Set Up a New Employee on the Payroll

Author: Rena Pirsos, XpertHR Legal Editor

When an employer hires a new employee, there are many pieces of information to obtain and consider and several steps to complete in order to promptly add the employee to the payroll before the next payday. Among other things, an employer must:

• Verify the new employee's Social Security Number and right to work in the US;
• Comply with new hire reporting requirements; and
• Ensure that amounts for applicable taxes and other deductions will be properly withheld from the employee's first paycheck.

A new Task, Add a New Employee to the Payroll, has been added to XpertHR to help guide employers through the various steps of this process.