Earned Wage Access: A Popular Payroll Perk, an Employer’s Liability
Earned wage access — letting employees draw compensation they've already earned before payday — is among the fastest-growing benefits in the market, and among the most unevenly regulated. Federal guidance has flipped three times in five years and a dozen states have written their own rules. But the harder lesson for compliance teams, as CCI contributing writer Erin Binney digs into, is that bringing in a third-party provider doesn't move the risk away from the employer.
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