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Mastering Worker Classification: Seven Essential Tips for Restaurant Owners

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Increased scrutiny and audits : Misclassification issues can trigger audits and increased scrutiny from regulatory agencies. Tip #5: Document Everything Maintaining comprehensive documentation can protect your business from potential disputes. Facing an audit or investigation. Also see Instructions to Form 8952.

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Handling Unemployment Claims with Confidence

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Because here’s the truth: Even when we’re right, if our documentation is weak or our response is unclear, we’re going to lose unemployment claims. And that means responding poorly to just a few claims each year can cost thousands in money, time, stress, and avoidable audits. Review your documentation and response.

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Nine Critical HR and Payroll Steps to Prepare Your Restaurant for 2025

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Bonus Tip : Create a simple FAQ document to address common employee questions about coverage options. Auditing Classifications : Double-check exempt versus nonexempt statuses for all employees to avoid costly fines and incorrect paychecks and tax withholdings. ” to spark ideas for ongoing improvement.

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Bridging the Gap: Integrating Legal and Insurance Considerations into Restaurant Cybersecurity Response

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Even small restaurant operations should maintain a centralized inventory of all third-party relationships with documentation of security assessments, contracts, and compliance certifications. This documentation is crucial for both regulatory compliance and insurance claims.

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Stay Ahead of the Danger: Proactive Food Safety Strategies for Restaurant Managers

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Regularly audit your suppliers’ practices and request documentation to confirm that they’re still in compliance. This should outline steps for documenting complaints, investigating potential sources, and communicating the outbreak to health authorities. Instead, document the complaint in detail.

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Automation Will Improve Your Restaurant’s Recall Management

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All recall activities must be properly documented, which is difficult, time-consuming, and error-prone when using manual methods. To incorporate automation into your restaurant: Audit your current recall process and identify where manual tasks create bottlenecks. Compliance.

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The Cost of B-ing Good

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B Corp Certification, a credential bestowed by the non-profit organization B Labs, is a way for businesses to address those concerns and more as they undertake an in-depth auditing process, and come out with a seal of authenticity around their sustainability and social responsibility claims and a branding kit to help promote it.