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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.