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Tools for Tough Economic Times
Business Planning and Assistance
Funding Programs
Business Incentives
Business Formation
Government Requirements
Employer Assistance
- Access to health insurance: New Mexico Health Insurance Alliance
- Americas Heroes at Work: Employer resources
- AskEarn.org: Resources to help employers hire people with disabilities
- Available tax deductions for health costs
- Calculator to determine your cost of employee turnover
- Coaching Employees: the Take 10 Check In
- Dealing with Difficult Workplace Behaviors free online class
- Discipline Documentation free online class
- Discrimination and Legal Issues for Businesses free online class
- Drug-Free Workplace Employee Education
....Drug-Free Workplace Kit
....Drug-free training for employees
- E-Verify: Check work status with Homeland Security
- Email employee forms to new hires
- Employee management forms from the US Chamber of Commerce
- Employee termination checklist
- Employer Toolkits for wellness: weight loss, smoking cessation, stress management and more
- Employer requirements kit
- Employment application template
- Ergonomic and safety tools
- Ergonomic training materials
- Ergonomics and safety tools
....Computer User Heaven: 8 Exercises That Spell Relief
....Computer Workstation
Self-Evaluation
....Cost benefit research showing employee efficiency improvements from ergonomic solutions
....Dynamic exercises - to prepare your body for physical motion
....Employee safety - back injury prevention
....Employee safety - desktop computer users
....Employee safety - easy ergonomics
....Employee safety - ergonomics in action for the food processing industry
....Ergonomic guidance for health care and hospitality industries
....Ergonomic stretch breaks for employees - Ergonomic exercises from University of Virginia
....Ergonomic tools for baggage handlers, deliverers, electricians, warehousing, and others
....Ergonomics Ideas Bank
....Ergonomics cost/benefits calculator from Washington State
....Industry-specific ergonomic tools - find your industry here
....Laboratory Workstation Evaluation Checklist
....Lifting calculator, pushing & pulling calculator, and checklists
....OR-OSHA's Introduction to Ergonomics in the Workplace
....Push, Pull, Carry calculator
....Recommendations for computer users from Cornell University
....Safety Pays! Calculator from OSHA analyzing the direct and indirect injuries
....Small business ergonomics: 32 examples, solutions and cost/benefit analyses
- Find best-practices solutions to your safety concerns
- Finding the Right Fit: a hiring and retention resource
- Finding the pay rate for your employees
- Flexible Work Schedules: Flexibility Toolkit
- Free OSHA Safety Consultation and Training
- Free OSHA Safety Management Tools
- Free OSHA Safety and Health Management Training for Small Business
- Free job description tools
....Find the right person: Interactive Hiring Tool
....Job Description Writer
- Full text Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- H1-B work visas for professional workers
- H2-B work visas for short-term, non-professional workers
- Handling Terminations with Care and Control free online course
- Hire from targeted group to receive Work Opportunity Tax Credit
- Hiring a risky job applicant? Free federal employee bond
....Federal bonding program
....Find the state administrator
- Hiring a veteran, low-income person or disabled? Work Opportunity Tax Credit
....Form 1 for Work Opportunity Tax Credit
....Who qualifies for WOTC
- Human Touch Performance Appraisals free online course
- IRS Independent Contractor Misclassification: Settlement with the IRS
....Forms to use to apply for the IRS Settlement Program
....Information about the IRS' program that reduces fines for reclassification by 90%
- IRS Withholding Charts - Biweekly - Married
- IRS Withholding Charts - Biweekly - Single
- IRS Withholding Charts - Irregular
....Federal withholding for irregular payroll - married
....Federal withholding for irregular payroll - single
- Independent contractor / employee checklist - which clearly shows how to tell the difference
- Independent contractor information from the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department
- Independent contractors (and all businesses) must pay gross receipts tax
- Information about federal work visa programs
- Interview questions for various job categories
- Lifting Guideline Tool
- New Employee Orientation Checklist
- OSHA Voluntary Protection Programs VPP
- OSHA safety publications
- Office of Disability: Searchable Online Accommodation Tool
- Online management classes
- Payroll tax calculator
- Performance Improvement Process - positive employee discipline
- Post jobs/find employees at New Mexico Workforce Connection
- Proper Worker Classification - IRS video
- Returning Heroes and Wounded Warriors: Resources to hire veterans
....Information about tax credits for hiring unemployed veterans
....Post your jobs on the Veterans Job Bank
- SHARP: Safety & Health Achievement Recognition Program
- Sample employee application
- Sample performance evaluation form
- Sexual harassment prevention training
- Stay out of trouble: Avoid FLSA most common pitfalls
- Supervising Difficult Behaviors online class
- Telephone Reference Check Form
- Ten Top Reasons to Hire a Veteran - information from Americas Heroes at Work
- Things to know before doing an employment background check
- Types of workers: Independent contractors vs employees
- Want to hire veterans? Here's a step-by-step toolkit
- Weekly and biweekly time sheets
....Biweekly - paid lunch
....Biweekly with non-paid lunch
....Biweekly with non-paid lunch and overtime
....Biweekly with non-paid lunch and sick/vacation
....Biweekly with non-paid lunch with sick and vacation
....Weekly - paid lunch
....Weekly with non-paid lunch
....Weekly with non-paid lunch and overtime options
- Work Opportunity Tax Credit
- Write an employee manual: free template
- Wrongful termination laws
- You Be The Judge In Interviewing
- Becoming an Employer
- Hiring Others
- Filling in the Gaps
- Paying Others
- Quarterly Requirements for Employers
- Annual Requirements for Employers
Business and Employee Training
Taking your Business to the Next Step
Think Globally
Everything Local!
Marketing and Selling
Selling to the Government
Selling on the Internet
Green Business Practices
You May Need to Know
Disaster Planning and Recovery
Specialty Topics
Starting a New Business
Veteran Resources
Tools for Agriculture
- Ag in Uncertain Times
- AgExportLinks: Export assistance for agriculture and food-related businesses
- AgHelp Wanted: Guidelines for Managing Agricultural Labor
- AgPlan - Business Plan: free software for rural businesses
- AgTools: Free software to manage financial risk in agriculture
- AgTransitions: online tool to build a plan to transition to the next generation
- AgVision Young and Beginning Producer Program
- AgrAbility: Cultivating Accessible Agriculture for people with disabilities
- Agricultural Exporters: USDA Export Credit Guarantee Program
- Agricultural Management Assistance for farms implementing conservation practices
- Agricultural Waste Management
- Agricultural export help through Western U.S. Agricultural Trade Association
- Agricultural marketing
- Agriculture Issues after a Flood
- AgroGuard: - neighborhood watch program for the agricultural industry
- Best Practices for farmers markets and vendors - online course
- BioMass Crop Assistance Program
- Cattle Learning Center
- Cattleman's Library - information from Cooperative Extension
- Commercial on-farm food safety practices
- Developing Diversified and Value-Added (DVA) Agribusiness
- Direct Farm Marketing and Tourism Handbook from University of Arizona
- Energy Efficiency Loans and Grants for Businesses or Agricultural Producers
- Energy savings in agriculture
- Environmental Management System for agriculture
- Ergonomics Training Resources for the Poultry Industry
- Expanding markets for small-scale and minority producers: Southwest Marketing Network
- Export certificates for food
- Farm disaster assistance programs
- Farm first aid kit
- Farm security and animal and plant diseases
....Agricultural plant and animal diseases and threats
....Agrosecurity, farm security, animal and plant diseases
....Animal Agrosecurity and Disaster Management online course
....Plant Biosecurity Management online course
....Protecting Farms: Agrosecurity Principles
- Farm/Agricultural/Rural Management Hazard Analysis Tool
- FarmAid: Disaster assistance
- Farmers: communicate with the USDA: Know your Farmer/Know your Food
- Fieldprint Calculator: How your operation impacts environmental sustainability
- Food Risk Safety Management Guide from Kansas State
- Free online courses in risk management for agriculture
- Funding for marketing your food exports
- GAPS - Good Agricultural Practices - online training from Cornell University
- Getting on Track: Basic agricultural records
- Good Agricultural Practice self-audits(GAP)
- Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) voluntary audit verification program from the USDA
....Good Agricultural Practices Manual: Information and scores for the USDA GAP audit for food safety
....Sample agricultural food safety manual developed by Oregon Department of Agriculture
....Sample logs to manage your farm operation
....Voluntary audit program to show that your agricultural practices minimize the risk of microbial food safety hazards
- Guide to Developing a Business Plan for Farms and Rural Businesses
- H2-A work visas for agricultural workers
- How to apply for financial assistance for advertising, labeling, tradeshows, and specialty crops
- IRS Agricultural Tax Center
- InVenture software: Free business plan tool for agriculture
- Include your business in the Export Directory of US Food Distribution Companies
- Interactive financial analysis for farmers
- International trade shows and marketing events
- Internet strategies to improve farm management: free e-learning course
- Interpreting financial statements - online video training to improve your farm business
- Labor Management in Agriculture: Cultivating Personnel Productivity
- Learning Spanish: Farm vocabulary
- Livestock operation? Free environmental assessments and technical assistance
- Managing agricultural financial, production and price risks, including information on offsetting risks in the futures markets
- Marketing software to find auction markets, beef alliances, PVP, and QSA options that best match your production practices
- Marketing to Independent Retailers
- NEW MEXICO?Grown with Tradition® Logo Program
- National Agricultural Center sponsored by the EPA
- National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
- New Mexico Agricultural Mediation Program
- New Mexico Farm*A*Syst: voluntary groundwater protection program
- OSHA Safety and Health Topics for Agriculture
- OSHA e-tool for agricultural hazards
- Organic Transition Course for agriculture
- Organic marketing resources
- Organic or conventional? Crop conversion calculator
- Post-Harvest Handling Decision Tool for vegetables
- Ranchers: Costs and Returns in New Mexico
- Register as an exporter with the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service
- Regulatory Information for the Agriculture Sector
- RightRisk: Simulation software to evaluate agriculture and ranching risk
- RiskNavigator: Strategic Risk Management for Agriculture
- Safety video clips for agriculture
- Sample business plans and other resources for farms and ranches
- Small farm funding resources
- Strategic Business Planning for Commercial Producers from Purdue University
- Taxes for Agriculture
- The Farmer's Guide to Agricultural Credit
- US Fair Labor Standards for Agricultural Workers
- USDA Loans for Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers
Tourism and Hospitality
Manufacturing
Wood Industry
Health Industry
Retail Industry
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