Name: Getting into the Groove of R&D Tax Credits
Start: 2023-10-24T17:00:00Z
End: 2023-10-24T17:00:26.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
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Changing legislation, AI, an uncertain economy, overtime, and understaffing — each requires you to adapt and rethink how you manage your workforce and support its effectiveness. Streamlining your processes to increase your employees’ productivity while reducing errors is key to your organization’s success. 
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to hear leading compliance insights and workforce management best practices to fuel organizational efficiencies in today’s tough market. 
By the end of this webinar, you will have learned: 
- The latest updates to workforce legislation, litigation trends, and worker protections 
- The impact of AI on your workforce management strategy 
- How to identify operational efficiencies by maximizing your current talent 
- How to develop leadership effectiveness fueled by data and insights

Beyond 9-5: Solving Today's HR Challenges with Workforce Management Tech

Employee financial wellness should be a priority for businesses. Workers depend on their employers for financial security, but many organizations need to consider the broader impact of that concept. How does this struggle affect worker decisions, productivity and stress?

Learn how the different generations – Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X & Boomers – are contemplating their financial future and how you can meet them where they are.

Join us for a special 30-minute session as we share eye-opening research findings about the uncertainty they feel in dealing with financial emergencies and the help they seek to be more productive at work. The employer's role in employee financial wellness is at the heart of this discussion, and workers candidly reveal what they expect.

The insights from this research study will help you drive meaningful outcomes in employee attraction, engagement & retention.

Financial wellness & the employer’s role: What are your workers telling us?

With changes to FLSA, and more specifically overtime rules, expected to be announced any day now, and litigation on employee time rounding heating up, are you confident that your organization is prepared for its changing wage and hour compliance needs? 
Not only are these and other wage and hour laws everchanging and complex, but the risks associated with litigation, settlements and penalties can be financially crippling. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to hear legal insights and best practices from ADP Counsel to inform your compliance strategy.

Overtime and Time Rounding Laws are Changing

Join Dr. Nela Richardson*, ADP chief economist and head of the ADP Research Institute, to learn about labor market dynamics and developments that have the power to affect your organization and the economy during this 50-minute session.

In this session:
- People are working less. Who – and why?
- The rise in employee engagement
- How the law of supply and demand failed teachers
- The many facets of employee stress
- The Business Card Bracket

Today at Work: People are working less

Employees continue to cite compensation as their most important driver at work, making it increasingly critical for leaders to offer meaningful and competitive pay. Getting pay right can help you attract best-fit talent and quickly build a more engaged and productive workforce.

Join us to discover how you can leverage insights, intelligence, and automation to make more confident compensation decisions, while simplifying and shortening the planning process.

During this live session and demonstration, you’ll learn how to:
• Design a global and holistic compensation strategy based on data and performance
• Leverage technology to inform decision-making and streamline collaboration
• Attract and hire talent with competitive compensation
• Explore opportunities to improve pay equity at your organization

Attract, Reward and  Retain Employees with Competitive Compensation

Multistate compliance for remote workers continues to be a hot-button issue as states pass laws, workforces become more geographically dispersed and employers realize their obligations are multistate regardless of where their headquarters are located. Employers who unknowingly acquire compliance requirements in new jurisdictions due to remote-worker relocations face risks related to tax, wage and hour, and more. 

Join us and get critical insights and potential strategies on key compliance considerations in remote/hybrid work arrangements, such as: 

- The multistate tax implications of the increasingly remote/mobile workforce
- What constitutes a “remote” employee, and how various state and local laws may apply
- Payroll tax implications, such as when and where to initiate state withholding tax payments
- Business income tax nexus that remote employees may create
- Audit and other regulatory risks, and how states become aware of remote employees.
- Potential best practices that some employers have implemented

ADP remains at the forefront of helping employers understand the complex compliance, financial, and strategic issues surrounding workforce management. Tap into our expertise to ensure you’re in the best shape possible for future workplace compliance changes that may come about along the way.

Multistate compliance considerations for a remote/hybrid workforce

Hear from our experts on why now is the right time  to integrate your HR data — and how you can get started quickly and easily.
In this session, you will:
• Learn about the latest technology to help you improve your HR and business processes.
• Understand how you can easily and quickly use APIs to build a customized HCM ecosystem 
 that’s best for your business.
• Learn why, according to a recent study from McKinsey, 75% of successful organizations 
 involved their IT team in initial discussions of automation projects. (McKinsey, The automation Imperative, September 2018)

Data Integration Strategies: IT Tested, HR Approved

Do you feel challenged by employment laws that are constantly evolving across federal, state, and local levels? You are not alone! As legislative and regulatory activity increases, so does compliance complexity. This session will address how to successfully navigate and manage through the ever-evolving world of employment law and the compliance trends to follow in 2024. 

During this webcast, we will cover a variety of topics including:

- New job posting and pay disclosure requirements
- Developments on increased scrutiny of non-competes and non-solicitation agreements
- Employment law implications of AI in the workplace
- Required changes to standard policies and documents to comply with new NLRB standards
- Update on independent contractor classification standards and salary increases for exempt employees
- Supreme Court’s religious accommodation and affirmative action decisions
- New paid family leave laws

ADP remains at the forefront of helping employers understand the complex compliance, financial, and strategic issues surrounding workforce management. Tap into our expertise to ensure you’re in the best shape possible for future workplace compliance changes that may come about along the way.

Major compliance trends to follow in 2024

Corporate business travel is returning to pre-pandemic levels, bringing with it several compliance risks for every organization to consider.  Risk areas of concern include corporate tax, income tax, social security, immigration, and posted worker registration requirements. Identifying and managing these risks is back on the agenda, making it vital for organizations to put policy and process frameworks in place to address those risks. 

Join us to hear how large organizations like ADP and General Motors are tackling the mobile work environment challenges as they make efforts to comply with global employee tax regulations. During this live session you’ll hear about: 
  
- The risks:  Global vs. US Domestic travel risks considerations 
- Strategy:  Developing policies to manage risk and compliance 
- Process:  Operationalizing your policy and facilitating downstream compliance (e.g., employment tax, shadow payroll, tax returns) 
- Technology:  Leveraging integrations and finding efficiencies 
- Change management:  Stakeholder and employee adoption

Business travel takes off… and so do the risks

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) continues to be in effect and vigorously enforced by the IRS. Employers must comply with all applicable federal and state health coverage mandates and reporting requirements. This is an opportunity to understand the current legal environment and how it impacts your organization and its current ACA strategy.

Join us and get critical insights on staying current regarding your ACA and state obligations. During this webcast, you will learn about:
- Employer reporting requirements and related legislation
- IRS ACA penalties and enforcement
- ACA lawsuit landscape

ADP remains at the forefront of helping employers understand the complex compliance, financial, and strategic issues surrounding workforce management. Tap into our expertise to ensure you’re in the best shape possible for future workplace compliance changes that may come about along the way.

Navigating Reporting Requirements, IRS Penalties, and the Legal Landscape

Leaders today face more challenges than ever — with seemingly unlimited resources, tools and information to support them. But data without actionable insights can just feel like noise. When leveraging your people data to its fullest potential, how do you know where to start? And how can you ensure you’re using your analytics to support your teams on a human level?

Join Aileen Smith, head of diversity business strategy, Amazon Web Services; Darren Root, chief strategist, Rightworks; Devin Engelsen, head of total rewards and people analytics, Databricks; and Giselle Mota, chief of product inclusion, ADP, as they discuss ways your organizational data can drive not just business success — but people success.

Learn how people data and data-driven technology can help you:
• Reduce turnover and improve retention
• Foster inclusivity and accessibility to create better experiences for workers with disabilities
• Navigate the world of generative AI and machine learning in HR
• Empower teams to be more productive and efficient

Generative AI and the workplace of tomorrow

In today’s data-driven world, technological advancement often outpaces a thorough understanding of how that technology impacts people. As the world of work rushes headlong into what many have dubbed a “new era” for technology, leaders would do well to pause and consider what ethical responsibilities they may have in utilizing evolving technologies to shape, wield, manage and draw conclusions about the data of real people.

Join us for an insightful discussion on the intersection of data, privacy and ethics that will address the following:
• What challenges do leaders face when deciding whether to activate new technology?
• How do best practices and compliance with data privacy laws extend to using new technologies, such as generative AI?
• What actions can leaders take to ensure data privacy and prevent the introduction of bias into machine-based decision making?
• What policies can organizations implement to support best-practice use of new technologies while respecting data privacy?

This session offers leaders the space to ask difficult questions about activating new technologies and the opportunity to develop a strategic plan for developing a calculated response to using new technologies.

When privacy, data and ethics collide

Leaders today face more challenges than ever — with seemingly unlimited resources, tools and information to support them. But data without actionable insights can just feel like noise. When leveraging your people data to its fullest potential, how do you know where to start? And how can you ensure you’re using your analytics to support your teams on a human level?

Join Aileen Smith, head of diversity business strategy, Amazon Web Services; Darren Root, chief strategist, Rightworks; Devin Engelsen, head of total rewards and people analytics, Databricks; and Giselle Mota, chief of product inclusion, ADP, as they discuss ways your organizational data can drive not just business
success — but people success. 

Learn how people data and data-driven technology can help you:
• Reduce turnover and improve retention
• Foster inclusivity and accessibility to create better experiences for workers with disabilities
• Navigate the world of generative AI and machine learning in HR
• Empower teams to be more productive and efficient

How to use data to ignite growth and progress

Some provisions from the SECURE 2.0 Act are already in effect — and many are still on the way — helping to expand access to employer-sponsored retirement benefits and increase retirement readiness for more American workers. SECURE 2.0 added many substantial incentives for employers to adopt or enhance a retirement plan and several changes that will help employees save for retirement. As with any legislation, employers and employees have questions surrounding the changes and the impact on their retirement planning and payroll, including new compliance elements.

Join us for a SECURE 2.0 update and receive practical advice and best practices as you continue to navigate this legislation, including:

- Catch-Up Contributions: What change is required and how can employers comply with it?
- Qualified Disaster and Emergency Withdrawals: When can participants withdraw retirement funds?
- Employer Match and NEC as Roth: What are the options for employers and employees on electing how to treat employer contributions?
- Student Loan Match: How can employers make matching contributions based on student loan payments?
- Emergency Savings: How can employees benefit from in-plan savings features?
- Required Minimum Distributions: When must participants take distributions from their retirement plan, and what is the change regarding Roth Accounts within 401k plans?

SECURE 2.0 Act Update: Putting it into Practice

For many employers, the year-end reporting cycle can be quite overwhelming as they prepare for year-end compliance activities such as balancing tax accounts and preparing to distribute Forms W-2. In addition, employers continue to have to react to regulatory and legislative guidance updates. Keeping pace with all of these tasks -- while remaining compliant -- can be daunting.

To help with these efforts, join us and get critical insights on what’s new and what’s coming next from Washington DC and the states that affect employer responsibilities, including aspects of: 

- Updated IRS E-Filing mandate
- Small Business Payroll Tax Credit for Increasing Research Activities
- Federal Limits
- W-2 reporting
- Employee Retention Credit moratorium
- New/impactful legislation
- State and Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA) changes
- State and Local Income Tax Withholding Issues

ADP remains at the forefront of helping employers understand the complex compliance, financial, and strategic issues surrounding workforce management. Tap into our expertise to ensure you’re in the best shape possible for future workplace compliance changes that may come about along the way.

Strategies for Surviving Year End Reporting

As we face an unprecedented economic and labor environment, it has become imperative that we attract, retain, and nurture our talent- particularly our team leaders. Labor shortages, experience gaps, decreases in employee engagement, and high turnover, are making things more difficult for leaders- even more so for new ones with limited experience. 

Join us for a 60-minute webinar to discover how StandOut, powered by ADP provides an economical solution that can be leveraged in real time. This strengths-based tool helps leaders fuel team engagement using light conversations and insights based on 20 years of research in exceptional leadership. It helps organizations build more teams like their best teams. 

In this session, participants will learn: 
- Best practices of the world's best leaders, applicable regardless of industry or work environment
- The StandOut platform technology that helps leaders drive team engagement and productivity
- How to sustain at scale an optimal leader effectiveness approach across the organization

Scaling Practices of the World’s Best Leaders

Hiring reliable, trustworthy employees is critical for supporting business needs. Ensuring your business has accurate information about its new hires is essential for employee retention, maintaining compliance, and reducing potential risk. With over 30 years of experience in the background screening industry, ADP offers a variety of screening options, from court records to employment verifications, even drug testing, and medical services. ADP makes screening easy with an integrated suite of services.

With screening workflows designed to work seamlessly with your recruiting platform, ADP's Screening and Selection Services deliver timely results so you can confidently make hiring decisions faster.

During this webcast, discover:
- Why screening candidates is valuable to the business
- Types of screening available to guide hiring actions with confidence
- Configurable screening programs that can support specific roles and needs

Plus, learn about the added value ADP provides to customers through continuing education webinars, useful user guides, and ongoing legislative alerts.

ADP Screening and Selection Services: Make informed hiring decisions quickly

Are you curious about the federal Research & Development (“R&D”) tax credit for investments in innovation? This credit offers you tax savings on eligible expenses or an offset against your payroll tax liability, which can potentially save you thousands of dollars each year.

Companies that drive innovation in manufacturing, software development and biotechnology/pharmaceuticals aren’t the only ones that can benefit from this tax credit. Any company that is innovating products or technologies can qualify for the R&D Tax Credit. Yet, more than 80% of businesses are not applying for these credits either because they think they don’t qualify or think that getting them is too hard.

By attending this session, you’ll learn:

- How the R&D tax credit can enhance cash flow to fund your business growth
- What business activities meet the criteria for R&D tax credits
- What constitutes proper documentation for claiming eligible R&D activities
- How an experienced partner is best suited to help you claim this tax credit

Getting into the Groove of R&D Tax Credits

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Talent Management

Small businesses and enterprises alike are competing for not only market share, but also for the best employees to move their businesses forward. Competitive salary and benefits packages are the foundation of high employee satisfaction. Join this community to keep up with changing regulations and learn how to optimize workforce costs with competitive yet cost-effective employee benefits and compensation plans.

Benefits and Compensation

Modern human resources professionals are charged with not only the recruitment of talent, but also retention, satisfaction and management. They also support the training, assessment and compensation aspects of employee management. Join this community to connect with thought leaders and learn about trends in benefits, compensation and talent management. Stay ahead of the curve to attract and retain top talent and strengthen organizational leadership and culture.

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