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▼ Woody Chamberlain Woody Chamberlain , President of eMars reports that : “ This noncompliant company thought that they were flying below the radar and that they would tell the government agent that they just needed a few months to clean up the mess . Well , the government doesn ’ t work that way . The fine was just over 1.6 million dollars . A fine like that would put a dent in any company ’ s bottom line . Many companies would go out of business with that size of a fine .”
Out of compliance payroll checks difficulties don ’ t go away with “ I ’ m sorry , I didn ’ t know , and we ’ ll fix this problem real soon ”. payrolls . Based on a study of 100,000 payrolls , it has been identified that at least 20 percent of construction company payrolls will contain one or more errors , when audits of these payrolls rely on human review . There is a way to reduce your compliance risk to zero . Yes … zero .
Yes , there is a 100 percent safe alternative to relying on fallible human audits of a construction business ’ s payroll .
The Compliant Client system by eMars is your answer for worry free compliant payroll . Submissions can now be processed electronically , resulting in the entire process taking one-tenth of the time it takes to prepare , audit , correct and submit a hand finished payroll . A typical payroll is prepared in less than two minutes .
No kidding . No joke .
The Davis-Bacon Act , passed by Congress in 1931 , requires private contractors to pay ‘ prevailing wages ’ to employees on all federally funded construction projects over $ 2,000 . Stiff fines and jail time can result if payroll checks are not in compliance with this act . There are 30 compliance regulations that must be adhered to for every check .
How many checks does your organization handle every week ? Can you manually catch
every error … every week ?
Doing payroll by hand every week is time consuming , costly and risky . You might also consider the state of mind of your payroll employees . Are they experiencing pressing personal problems that might affect their performance ?
Humans make mistakes , especially under pressure
Part of a financial officer ’ s job is to protect the company and its top executives from catastrophic dilemmas . However , many of these financial executives do not protect their company and its top executives from submitting erroneous non-compliant , illegal
Ms . Rychelle Stone , Certified Payroll Administrator of Grunley Construction has been using eMars / Compliant Client for about 13 years . “ I was hesitant at first , but I ’ m an open-minded person . I watched a demonstration of the Compliant Client web-based system . It doesn ’ t take up space in the hard drive of your computer . I felt comfortable with the demonstration . Our company has about 40 ongoing projects and about 70 subcontractors . I needed a strong system that was easy to use .”
Ms . Stone continued : “ We needed a special report and eMars came through quite well . Their system integrated with our systems - so there were no glitches . What is really nice is that you don ’ t have to be a tech to use Compliant Client . And when I did have questions , they were answered quickly and succinctly .”
Compliant Client requires a PC and less than 30 minutes of training . Complete implementation takes less than one day after loading the wage determination . Compared to paper and pencil preparation , the eMars
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