The Contractor shall provide the following employer of record services: • Ensure workers are properly onboarded and offboarded. • Conduct background checks and ensure that all background checks meet or exceed Southeast Missouri State University’s standards including criminal records, SSN trace, national sex offender registry search and education verification (highest degree earned). • Ensure worker authorization meets required federal and state requirements. • Process and manage payroll; calculating and withholding employee taxes, state unemployment insurance and other state mandated benefits; calculating and distributing taxes and other employer payments and documenting to appropriate federal, state, and local municipalities as required. • Administer and process all tax and compensatory benefit program deposits provided by the EOR. • Determine and comply with any state-based employer obligations applicable to a worker, including any state-based wage and hour regulations, registration or reporting obligations, or statutory benefits. • Provide a seamless, easy-to-use system or methodology for adding, removing, or changing a worker’s record and have the ability to manage short-term workers who may work for repeated terms that may or may not include a break in service. • Determine and comply with requirements for unemployment insurance per state and rate charged.
