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by Roger A. Smith,
CPP & Payroll Consultant
"Benchmarking" vs. "Benchmarks"
Comparing your costs or other benchmarks with outside organizations is fine, and it can be a useful exercise. However, simply comparing benchmarks is not “benchmarking.”
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August 2009 Workforce Chronicle
Welcome to the Workforce Chronicle!
In this issue, Carol Duman, HR director for WorkForce Software, shares five tips on employee retention. This month’s Learning Series webinar is “Workforce Management: The Road to Compliance.” View this webinar by August 31, 2009, for a chance to win a copy of the BLR Special Report on FLSA Overtime: Making Your Way Through the Exempt/Nonexempt Minefield.
Congratulations to Verna Conroy from Pella Corporation for winning a copy of the BLR Special Report on FLSA Overtime: Making Your Way Through the Exempt/Nonexempt Minefield for viewing “Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Cloud Computing – What do they mean to the HR & Payroll Professional?” during the month of July.
DON’T FORGET TO SIGN UP FOR THE HACKETT GROUP'S WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE STUDY. DEADLINE AUGUST 7, 2009. FRIENDS OF WORKFORCE PARTICIPATE FOR FREE, SO CONTACT US TODAY!
HR CoRNER
Five Tips to Retain Top Performers
Employee retention is an important responsibility for us HR professionals. It’s our job to make sure our executives, managers, and supervisors are trained to help us retain our top performers. Employee retention is important to any business. When there is turnover, there is a cost, including loss of productivity, hiring and training, and the time it takes the employee to master the job. During my career, I learned that employee retention is often correlated to the employee’s manager and how the manager treats his/her employees.
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Featured Article
Another Compliance Concern –
Does Fatigue Management Affect Your Organization?
Being alert is important for any job, but there are jobs where it is critical that the employee is fit for duty. Just think about it, would you want your pilot fighting off sleep; or, what about your surgeon? This affects all of us at some point in our life. We’ve all heard about truck drivers who fall asleep at the wheel. You, or a loved one, could be on that same road. We have a vested interest in ensuring fatigue management regulations are in place and enforced for these types of critical positions.
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Articles & Insights
Did These Employees Lose Exempt Status?
Several former employees of a telecommunications company filed a class action suit, claiming they had lost their exempt status when their employer instituted mandatory days off without pay in response to poor business conditions. [more]
Broken promises lead to record verdict for ex-employee
Promising employees too much when they’re hired can lead to big legal headaches. In one recent case, it led to an arbitration decision you’ll have to see to believe. [more]
Wal-Mart Loses Settlement of Massachusetts Pay Suit
July 16 (Bloomberg) -- Wal-Mart Stores Inc. lost a bid to settle a class-action lawsuit in a Massachusetts workers’ pay dispute after plaintiffs’ lawyers claimed it reached a secret deal with attorneys who were no longer active in the case. [more]
Be Careful with OT Calculations
QuikTrip Corp. has agreed to pay $747,729 to more than 3,800 current and former convenience store employees after the Department of Labor accused the company of calculating overtime incorrectly. [more]
WorkForce Software in the News
Case Study
Atlantic Marine
Customer Since: April 2007
Industry: Shipbuilding & Repair
Challenge: Atlantic Marine, a premier shipyard on the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. East Coast, wanted to improve and streamline its workforce management processes to increase productivity and meet business goals. Managers spent several hours a week on routine daily tasks regarding employee time, labor allocation, verifying projects, requesting time-off, etc. Managers also found it difficult to anticipate overtime needs or analyze injury rates on a job-by-job basis. Cost estimators were challenged when creating bids. It was also critical that Atlantic Marine increase the frequency that employees verified their time and labor on a project-by-project basis, because government auditors wanted daily, rather than weekly, labor accounting, which could not be automated within the existing Kronos system.
Results Using EmpCenter: By deploying WorkForce Software’s EmpCenter workforce management suite, Atlantic Marine lowered clerical headcount, reduced labor costs, and improved the productivity of supervisors and report builders.
ROI: 210%
Payback: 6 months
Average annual benefit: $1,938,576
Atlantic Marine ROI Case Study
EmpCenter
EmpCenter® Absence Manager
The EmpCenter® Absence Manager increases productivity by automating 100% of your organization’s leave management processes. Real-time integration with EmpCenter Time & Attendance records absences as they happen with automatic timesheet updates to reflect the most current absence information and allow for better decision making, accurate pay, and increased employee satisfaction. Absence Manager helps HR identify absenteeism trends to proactively monitor and manage employee behavior.
Contact WorkForce Software for more information at info@workforcesoftware.com.
White Paper Highlight
Implementation of ESS fundamentally changes the roles of the payroll, HR, and operations personnel by automating transactions that they would normally do manually. Today, regardless of the size of your organization, ESS provides an opportunity to significantly reduce costs while improving employee job satisfaction. [more]
Webinars
Events
Stop by the WorkForce Software booth at the following 2009 Conferences and Expos.
Prize Drawings held during each event!
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