While the beginning of the month can signify a fresh start for some, small businesses and their accounting departments sometimes associate the first few days of the month with feelings of frustration, stress, and anxiety. The dreaded month-end close process never ceases, and a recent survey by...
This Week's Second Look
There is quite a lot of discourse regarding daily reports in the construction industry. Some people think they are unnecessary and take too much time to be worth the effort. However, some may not consider how important daily reports are in regards to protecting you on the front end and defending...
Over the past few years, we’ve made it a priority at this time of year to give credit to the members of construction groups around the state chipping in to give back to their communities during the holidays. Much too humble to brag on themselves, executives and craft professionals in the industry...
Running a business is no simple endeavor, and the challenges that are a part of navigating employment law, especially, seem to be endless. Whether you are hiring someone for the first time or the 50th time, one of the most important questions a construction company must answer about its workforce...
Prosecutors filed the first ever wage theft case in Harris County this week against a homeowner who refused to pay a self-employed independent contractor $2,300 for painting the homeowner’s home worth over $1.5 million. Sonny D. Nicholas, 62, is charged with Theft of Service for work...
In the construction world, Silica safety has become a top priority, albeit if partly only because of OSHA’s implementation of its Silica safety standards, which went into effect in September 2017.Prior to those standards being put into effect, workers may not have realized how common, and dangerous...
Nearly ten years ago, a group of leaders in the Houston commercial construction industry met to discuss its biggest future challenge, an aging and diminishing craft workforce. Baby Boomers were (and still are) reaching retirement age at the rate of 10,000 people each day, and the construction...
Here at Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing, there is only one thing that our clients pay us to do for them. They don’t pay us to do estimates, nor do submittals, nor send them invoices, nor answer our phones, nor send them advertising materials or a whole host of other things that we all spend...
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When employees contribute a percentage of their wages to their employer’s sponsored retirement plan, they often assume the money is transferred into their account on payday. Employers have a fiduciary responsibility to ensure that participants’ contributions are remitted to the plan timely....
