In some sectors such as retail or at home, not assume that employees of a company "accounts in control. Very often, they are not, and pay these workers as a traditional paycheck can be heavy. Fortunately, today is quite easy to configure a system in which employees can pay even if they have bank accounts.
The solution is to use a payment card (or card), which is essentially a debit card that is loaded with the remuneration of an employee. In other words, instead of receiving paper checks to clear, have money, they simply added to their cards. Although payment cards are similar to debit cards bank, there are some key differences.
For starters, there is no bank account card person associated with pay for each employee. Instead, it is an account Financial belonging to the employer and employee each card uses funds from this account only. Some cards are issued by banks, but there are other companies that issued are not technically banks. Each type is very good, as the issuer of the payment card is financially stable.
Like debit cards, these cards can be used to obtain cash from an ATM. However, ATM fees apply if the card is used for ATM is a member of a network to which the issuer of the card member. You can also have any number of other charges associated with a payment card such as charging fees for adding funds. Employers and employees must be well informed of all possible charges for using payment cards.
Payment cards are still a growing trend. Recently, Wal-Mart the largest private employer in the United States announced it would move to a system of paperless payroll, which involve the use of payment card. It is expected that approximately Half of Wal-Mart will continue to use direct deposit, while the other half will move to the card. No more paper payroll checks will be issued. Moreover to reduce the cost of paying its employees, Wal-Mart expects to save more than 250,000 tons of paper per year. So yes, there is even an environmental benefit.
According to analysts of Mercator Advisory Group, 17.22 billion dollars in payments were made through payroll cards in 2008, up 26% over the previous year. With such growth, and after the largest private employer in the U.S., it is clear that payment cards are the wave of the future to pay employees.