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- @072 CHAP 11
-
- @CODE: CA
- ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
- │ REPORTING NEWLY HIRED EMPLOYEES--CALIFORNIA │
- └────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
-
- Many California employers are required to report all new
- hires, rehires, or returning employees to the Employment
- Development Department within 30 days of their being hired
- or rehired. This can be done by filling out and filing
- EDD Form DE 34.
-
- The purpose of this reporting requirement is to help the
- state track down parents who are delinquent on their child
- support payments and crack down on possible welfare fraud.
- (But it's also one more piece of paperwork for employers,
- required by Big Brother....)
-
- This reporting requirement applies to employers in the
- following categories, who have 5 or more employees:
-
- . Automotive dealers and gasoline service stations;
-
- . Automotive repair, services and parking;
-
- . Building construction -- general contractors and
- operative builders;
-
- . Business services;
-
- . Construction -- special trade contractors;
-
- . Eating and drinking places;
-
- . Engineering, accounting, research, management and
- related services;
-
- . Health services;
-
- . Heavy construction other than building construction
- contractors;
-
- . Holding companies and other investment offices;
-
- . Hotels, rooming houses, camps, and other places of
- lodging;
-
- . Landscaping and horticultural services;
-
- . Motion pictures;
-
- . Motor freight transportation and warehousing;
-
- . Water transportation;
-
- . Wholesale trade -- durable goods, or nondurable goods.
-
- Note that you do not have to report the hiring of any
- employees whom you pay less than $300 a month in wages,
- or who are under 18 years of age.
-
- @IF009xx]Since your business has fewer than 5 employees, it is not
- @IF009xx]necessary for @NAME to file Form DE 34.
- @IF005xx]NOTE: @NAME has @EMP employees.
- @IF005xx]
- @IF005xx]Accordingly, you may have to file Form DE 34 if you
- @IF005xx]engage in any of the business activities enumerated
- @IF005xx]above.
-
- Even if you are not currently required to report new hires
- under California law, you soon will be, under new federal
- laws, as discussed below.
- @CODE:OF
-
- ┌──────────────────────────┐
- │ REPORTING NEW HIRES │
- └──────────────────────────┘
-
- As an employer, you will soon be required to report all new
- hires to a state agency, which will forward the information
- to a National Registry. Thus, the identity and address of
- any person who becomes an employee, anywhere in the U.S.,
- will now be collected in a single database.
-
- Under the new federal Welfare Reform law (H.R. 3734), all
- states that do not have a Directory of New Hires must
- establish one by October 1, 1997. States that have a
- Directory of New Hires are required to conform with all
- of the law's provisions by October 1, 1998. This data, to
- be collected by the states, will be forwarded to a National
- Registry, which will supposedly be used to catch parents
- who fail to make child support payments. However, it does
- not take too great a stretch of the imagination to guess
- that this data will be used by the IRS and by who knows
- what other government agencies.
-
- @CODE: CA
- As noted above, California has been successfully operating
- its own New Employee Registry program since signed into
- law by Governor Pete Wilson in 1992. Over 39,500 matches
- were made in fiscal year 1995-96. Thus, this is not a new
- requirement in California. However, you will have to
- report new hires within 20 days, rather than 30, under the
- new federal law, and the federal law contains no exemption
- for small employers, unlike the existing California law.
-
- @CODE:OF
- NEW HIRE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
-
- H.R. 3734 requires the following:
-
- . All employers must report the hiring of all new
- workers within 20 days of hire.
-
- The report must include the following data:
-
- . First name, middle initial and last name of the
- employee;
-
- . The employee's social security number;
-
- . The employee's home address;
-
- . The employer's name, address, and Federal Employer
- Identification Number; and
-
- . The employer's State identification number.
-
- Employers who file reports magnetically must file reports
- by two monthly transmissions not less than twelve days nor
- more than sixteen days apart.
-
- Multistate employers who file reports magnetically, may
- select one state, in which they have employees, to which
- to report all new hires.
-
- REPORTING FORMAT. Reports can be submitted by providing
- a copy of the employee's W-4, on a form provided by the
- state, or any other hiring document transmitted by first
- class mail, magnetically or electronically.
-