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Health insurance. PTO. 401K. These are all benefits afforded to nail technicians. Yes, nail technicians.
An east coast nail salon, Miniluxe, decided to flip the normal nail salon model on its head and provide it's employee's with benefits, not customary to the industry, amongst other upgrades. Miniluxe founder, Tony Tjan, modeled his business after Starbucks by providing a premium version of everyday products with a positive experience.
Read moreAn excerpt from the Inc. article by Suzanne Lucas addressing the affect the proposed change in overtime laws will have for Congress and their staff.
Last summer the Department of Labor released a new proposal for a change in overtime laws. Significantly, regardless of job duties, employees will have to earn $50,440 per year before they can be considered exempt from overtime. The change hasn't been implemented yet (the proposed date is September 2016), but business owners are already in a panic.
Why? The previous threshold was only $23,660, so this throws a lot of jobs--an estimated five million, in fact--into the pot. This is a huge deal and will cause lots of problems for business owners and employees alike. Guess who just figured it out?
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This year business owners have an extra 3 days (woohoo!) to file their respective taxes. This is an article with some helpful advice and checklist for any last minute filers