It almost sounds as if the employer/payroll dept., is waiting until your pay exceeds the federal Standard Deduction level (for whatever status you indicated on the W-4), before they started withholding.
Thus, starting a job in the middle of 2021, and 1600-2000/mo pay...that might not happen until later in the year.
Then starting all over at the start of 2022.
Yeah...seems a strange way to do it...never ever heard that it would be allowed to be done this way.
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