Do you know what to do when hiring your first employee to letting your first employee go?

Most small employers have little experience with the ins and outs of employees. What do you do first; I suggest a good HR program where there is no HR department to manage the day to day issues in managing employees.

A good HR program has the necessary resources to help you with;

1. Guidelines to conduct an interview
2. Employee Application
3. Employee Evaluation
4. IRS forms required to obtain a Tax ID number
5. State Guidelines and forms for taxes and insurance
6. Employee Handbook
7. State and Local laws
8. Maintain employee files
9. Employee termination and layoff, i.e., guidelines, forms, notification

When you will be hiring it will be necessary to have a payroll system in place to manage the necessary book work, form and checks required to pay an employee;

1. Payroll programs like bank systems and quicken
2. Payroll services
3. PEO (employee leasing)

Consider Benefit programs which will help you hire and retain employees. Part of you operational budget for employee cost like salary, bonus, benefits are important considerations. You can create a modest budget with the right plans and consultant.

1. Health, Dental, Vision and Life benefits
2. Pension Plans
3. Health Management and Education programs
4. Vacation and Sick leave

Resources are easy to obtain so that you can maintain the best employee management programs. Many small business employers do not always consider the many issues regarding employees and due to the constraints of managing a business it can be challenging.

While you can do the research by using the Federal Tax and Labor sites along with local State sites it is much easier to have all the information in one place.

A good online system such as our value added HR ANSERLINK program is free to clients when using one of our benefit programs or ABC Payroll our Payroll Affiliate.