Michael Baer, Author at DailyPay

Author: Michael Baer

Michael Baer, with a career covering payroll issues for the past three decades, specializes in communication and compliance; he is an advocate to the payroll community for employees accessing pay when earned. Prior to DailyPay, Michael was managing editor at the Bloomberg subsidiary, Bloomberg Tax, where he was charged with overseeing BNA’s Payroll Library, developing the Payroll Decision Support Network and International Payroll Decision Support Network. All these products are now consolidated into one payroll offering on the Bloomberg Tax platform. Michael is a Certified Payroll Professional.

How Payroll Influences the Government

We know that large federal agencies, including the IRS, the Social Security Administration and the Labor [...]

COVID-19 Fallout Creates Lingering Problems for Payroll

Payroll issues created by the pandemic in 2020 are continuing into 2021 for those in the payroll trenches, [...]

Payroll’s Role is Changing: Here’s How New Techn …

Payroll as a profession has come a long way. A little over a decade ago, as automation swept into the field [...]

Future Workplace Mixes Demographic, Technological, and B …

As businesses seek to maximize their workforce potential, there is a need to understand and adapt to [...]

How DailyPay Applications Support Positive Financial Beh …

To help us make these key financial decisions, we need to leverage our ability to mentally account for where money is to be spent and determine the category it should be put in

Ric Edelman: The COVID Crisis is Bad, but Financial Tech …

The health pandemic and subsequent financial upheaval has hit the wallets of tens of millions of Americans [...]

Lessons From the Top as Employers Transform Practices

Employer payroll operations had to pivot dramatically at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. As entire [...]

Legislative Initiatives to Restore Worker Financial Heal …

In the New York legislature in Albany, Senator Benjamin and his colleagues in leadership in the legislature have introduced several measures to address the physical and financial needs of state residents. Initiatives include help for small businesses to stay afloat and tenant-based relief in coordination with federal programs.

Measuring the Growing Demand for the Daily Pay Benefit

Results from a recent Harris Poll show that 72% of responding employees want access to their pay on-demand, [...]