Payroll Processing and Tax

Custom payroll and tax software designed to ensure compliance.

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Designed by leading wage and hour attorneys, Forework’s payroll system is coded to keep employers in compliance with complicated wage and hour laws. Forework anticipates and addresses sensitive payroll requirements, such as travel time and training time pay, shift premiums, nuanced overtime and regular rate calculations, state-specific “spread of hours” and seventh day overtime pay requirements, 24-hour employee rules, single-employee shift exceptions, and everything else that employers do not even know they need to stay in compliance.

Compliance Made Convenient

Forework’s Payroll Services Module Provides:

  • Weekly, biweekly, and semi-monthly payroll processing
  • Customizable set-up to account for multi-faceted rules for differing departments in the organization
  • GEO-location for remote employees and mobile staff, to confirm their hours and work
  • Overtime-controls and labor spend tracking
  • Workers’ compensation tracking and reporting
  • Comprehensive reports on any and all payroll, tax, and labor related information
  • Compliant compensation rules for hourly, tipped, salaried, exempt and non-exempt employees, and commissioned employees, as well as 1099 consultants and vendors
  • Processing of garnishment payments to designated agencies
  • Tracking of paid family leave requirements
  • Accrual and payout of mandatory paid sick leave benefits
  • Processing of all withholdings and deductions
  • Paid family leave and disability payment processing
  • Compensation paid by direct deposit, live checks, or daily pay systems
  • Integration with other vendors (e.g., HHAeXchange, Daily Pay)
  • Paid time off accruals and time-off tracking/reporting
  • Payroll tax deposits to the IRS and state agencies
  • 1099 and W-2 preparation and filing
  • Legally compliant pay statements
  • Mobile application that allows employees to check their pay statements, PTO balances, and any HR-related documents/information at the tip of their fingers

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Frequently Asked Questions

Like all payroll companies, Forework’s payroll service transfers money out of the company’s designated bank account and pays employees either by mailing live checks or directly depositing the wages into employee accounts. We can also leave the printing and mailing of checks to you. Forework will handle the computation of all your employees’ gross and net wages, and we will file the quarterly tax reports. Any deposits for taxes are automatically made for you.

Forework tracks the accrual of these private insurance costs on a per employee basis and reports them on employees’ pay statements. The premium for the insurance itself can be paid by the client or by Forework. We do not pull the insurance money for Paid Family Leave insurance or short-term disability insurance from clients’ accounts unless the client requests that Forework make premium payments on their behalf.

There are a number of ways this is done and supported by Forework. Employees can utilize the Forework mobile application or desktop to log into their account and clock in and out from a shift. For exempt employees, salary and hours can be pre-populated in the system, subject to amendments for exceptions. Employees can also record their time in a different time-tracking system and then have the time data imported into Forework for payroll-processing purposes.

The most common payroll cycles are weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, and monthly. When you hire employees for the first time, you’ll need to determine how often to pay them:

– Weekly payroll results in 52 checks per year and is common for hourly employees.
– Biweekly payroll results in 26 checks per year and is common for both hourly and salaried employees.
– Semi-monthly payroll results in 24 checks per year and is usually reserved for salaried employees.
– Monthly payroll results in 12 checks per year and is almost always used for salaried employees only.
Be sure to review wage and hour laws in your state, or check with your Forework team, to ensure your payroll schedule is compliant with state laws that apply to your business.

Once you enter your payroll data, we automatically calculate, deduct, pay, and file all federal, state, and local payroll taxes to the appropriate government tax agencies.

Yes, you can move the pay date for a particular payroll or change your entire payroll calendar. You can also run supplemental or additional payrolls as needed (e.g., to pay out unused vacation time or bonuses to your employees or to correct pay errors).

Yes.

Yes.

Yes, but we will need to counsel you about any tax or labor law issues associated with doing so.

Yes, Forework will print live checks and deliver them to clients in time for their pay date. Clients can also request that employees who are receiving direct deposit receive a printed copy of their paystub, which Forework will deliver to the client.

Yes, Forework has an open API which allows it to integrate with countless benefits vendors.

Forework generates the necessary reports to deliver to 401(k) providers and allows clients to schedule and program 401(k) employee withholdings.

Forework tracks compensation data for the purposes of workers’-compensation reporting and payment obligations.

Billing for our payroll processing services occurs on each pay date. Forework will automatically withdraw the fees for our services when money is withdrawn to pay employees.

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