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by Roger A. Smith,
CPP & Payroll Consultant
A Trip to the Zoo
How often have you had a really great idea to pursue, yet when it comes time to commit to it, you decide to back away? Perhaps you thought “maybe I won’t be able to succeed” or “if it fails, I’ll look stupid.”
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Workforce Chronicle
September 2009
Welcome to the Workforce Chronicle!
In this issue, look for 5 tips on improving employee morale in the HR Corner. And, don’t miss this month’s Learning Series webinar, “A Virtual Office for the Payroll Department - an Idea Whose Time has Come.” View this webinar by September 30, 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 Minnie Beal from the City of Houston Government for winning a copy of the BLR Special Report on FLSA Overtime: Making Your Way Through the Exempt/Nonexempt Minefield for viewing “Workforce Management and the Road to Compliance” during the month of August.
HR CoRNER
The HR Corner for September 2009
Five Tips to Improve Employee Morale
Positive employee morale is important for any organization, regardless of the industry or company size. When employee morale is low, it spreads quickly like a virus. When morale is mediocre, employee performance matches that. A high-productive and thriving business typically has employees who are happy with their jobs, get along with co-workers, and feel like what they do makes a difference to the company. It can be easy to create a positive environment, but you need to pay attention to your team.
READ MORE IN THE HR CORNER
Featured Article
The Flexible Environment - Does it Create a Work/Life Balance?
No one ever looks back on their life and thinks I should have spent more time at work, which is a huge factor in why more and more employers offer a work/life balance to their employees.
COMPLETE ARTICLE
Articles & Insights
Next on Feds’ agenda: Working Families Flexibility Act
There’s good employee-benefit legislation, and there’s bad employee-benefit legislation. You can make the call on this one. Congress has added the Working Families Flexibility Act to the round of bills on this year’s agenda. [more]
Most Employers Expect to Add Staff
Fifty-three percent of employers say they plan to hire full-time employees in the next 12 months, according to a new survey by Robert Half International and CareerBuilder. [more]
New I-9 Form Arrives, Expiration Date of 2012
The Office of Management and Budget has extended its approval of Form I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) to August 31, 2012, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced. Consequently, USCIS has amended the form to reflect a new revision date of August 7, 2009. [more]
WorkForce Software in the News
CUTOMER OVERVIEW
The Phoenix Companies
Customer Since: 2006
Industry: Insurance
Challenge: Prior to selecting WorkForce Software’s EmpCenter® Online solution, The Phoenix Companies went through a long, manual, paper-based process to collect time and track attendance. Prior to 2006, The Phoenix Company had anywhere from 60 to 80 administrative people collecting paper timesheets from hundreds of employees and then keying that data into a spreadsheet. In addition to that, the company manually calculated complex accrual rules. The manual processing created a number of issues, including time recording errors, missing time-off requests, as well as a high number of unapproved timesheets so employees could be paid for time not worked. Often times the handwritten timesheets were difficult to read and were keyed incorrectly.
Results Using EmpCenter: The Phoenix Companies significantly reduced costs and increased employee productivity by using EmpCenter. Because the system a significant amount of processing time, it only required one person to do this job, allowing others to help make improvements to other parts of the business. Now, managers are responsible for collecting and approving their employees’ time electronically, and employees and managers receive email alerts when timesheets are late.
The Phoenix Companies Case Study
EmpCenter
EmpCenter® Fatigue Management
Many industries have current or planned regulations to help mitigate the risks of fatigued labor resources. EmpCenter Fatigue Management helps organizations reduce risks associated with employees who are too fatigued to perform their roles safely. Whether the employee is an airline pilot, truck driver, train or fleet operator, or a worker at a nuclear power plant, the Fatigue Management solution ensures workers are only on the clock if all the rules governing their hours are not violated.
Organizations may also have internal fatigue management policies that help reduce exposure to lawsuits. These rules can be complex and intertwined with each other – Fatigue Management automates the process and enforces every rule, every time. Turbo charge your workforce management efforts with the Fatigue Management and get started on managing tough problems today.
Contact WorkForce Software for more information at info@workforcesoftware.com.
White Paper Highlight
Fatigue Management – NRC Compliance
It is the employers’ responsibility to properly track and manage these employees to ensure they do not become overly fatigued, while ensuring the organization adheres to United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Regulation 10 CFR 26. This regulation entails a complex set of rules defining limits for work hours, scheduling, break constraints, periodic employee assessments, and other regulations to be discussed in this paper. [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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Rainier Chapter's Annual Northwest Regional Payroll Conference
Lynnwood Convention Center
Lynnwood, WA
September 17-18th, 2009
www.rainierchapterapa.org
HR Technology Conference and Expo
McCormick Place
Chicago, IL
September 30th-October 1st, 2009
www.hrtechconference.com
Booth #534
CUPA-HR Annual Conference and Expo
Rio Hotel, Las Vegas
October 19-21st, 2009
www.cupahr.org
Booth #501
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