Employment Issues

Benefits
Taxable Fringe Benefit Guide (IRS, April 2005) (.pdf)

Employment Benefits

Civil Service System
Fire or Police Civil Service Commission

COBRA Compliance

Compensation
Understanding Compensation for Township Officials and
Employees (.pdf)
Minimum Wage Information
Payment of Wages and Fringe Benefits Act (payroll frequency)

Employee vs. Contractor
Employee or Independent Contractor? (.pdf)
Michigan Township News, November 2002

Employer Misclassification Fact Sheet (.pdf)

Employee Information and Notice
Workplace Posters

Bullard-Plawecki Employee Right to Know Act 

Employment Eligibility (I-9 and Citizenship) 

Hiring and Firing

Employment Testing and Background Checks (.pdf)

Guidelines, Sample Policies and Forms

Township Personnel Policies II: Hiring and Firing Issues (.pdf)
Michigan Township News, October 2001 

Pre-Employment Inquiry Guide (.pdf)

Michigan Department of Civil Rights guide to application and interview questions

Military Service and Veterans
Veterans (non-employee topics)

Employees in the Military (employee topics)

Minimum Wage

Pensions

Government Pension Offset

Personnel Policies
Personnel Policies
Township Personnel Policies: What You Don't Have Can Hurt You (.pdf)
Michigan Township News, September 2001

Records

What Township Officials Need to Know About: Complying With the Michigan Social Security Number Privacy Act  (.pdf)

Bullard-Plawecki Employee Right to Know Act 

(Personnel records)

Social Security
Federal-State Reference Guide (IRS 963, Rev. 3/2005) (.pdf)
Guide to Social Security and Medicare coverage and tax withholding requirements for local government employees.
Social Security Online Handbook

Unemployment Insurance
What Township Officials Need to Know About Unemployment
Insurance (.pdf)
Michigan Unemployment Insurance Agency

Workers Compensation
Michigan Workers Compensation Agency

Workplace Harassment
Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (.pdf)
Michigan Township News, September 1998