Unlimited Acknowledgement Forms in Onboarding

When it comes to protecting your organization, there always seems to be another loophole to close. Lawyers are suffering just like everyone else in this economy and they are hungry for income. This means business owners (with their perceived deep pockets) are a target. Employees aren't just getting the idea into their heads out of [...]

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Paperless Applications a Boon When Unemployment is High

I talk a lot about our onboarding system on my blog, but that isn't the only product we offer at Emerald Software Group. We've actually got a paperless employment application package too. It interfaces directly with our onboarding  system to create a complete paperless hiring solution. Some of our clients already have a paperless recruiting system [...]

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Notes on Re-Hire Onboarding

When you are onboarding a new-hire, you know how much paperwork is involved. Every single form has to be signed. The employee has to go through the whole rigmarole and jump through all the hoops. What about when you rehire an employee after a termination or layoff? Let's say an employee quits with notice and then [...]

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Translation is Essential When Onboarding ESL Employees

Do you have a system in place that makes all your company policies available to employees in their first language? The blogger over at All Language Alliance has some interesting news from the U.K. about what might happen if you don't. Last year, an Irish company was ordered to compensate all foreign born employees 5,000 [...]

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Onboarding Teens – Special Considerations

FLSA regulations govern child labor in the U.S. Many employers hire teens for unskilled jobs in retail and food service, and these workers can be a valuable asset. They are generally in good health; many are excited to be working at their first job. They can get by with a smaller paycheck since Mom and [...]

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Benefits of Using Staff Service Request for Onboarding

The AllegroHR Staff Service Request (SSR) application is a useful tool for requisitioning items throughout an employee's tenure at your organization. Of course, it's especially useful during onboarding when a significant amount of material requisitioning (also known as provisioning) takes place in a short period of time. Here are three features of our SSR program [...]

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AT&T U-Verse, Day 1

We’re going to take a departure from my normal fare of human resources topics and talk about my experiences switching to AT&T U-Verse, AT&T’s Television Over IP (TVIP) service to compete for home television service.   I’ve been with DirecTV for over 5 years, and we even moved with them when we moved from Gulfport, Mississippi  to [...]

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Find Your State Tax Forms Here!

Keeping up with the latest income tax withholding requirements for employees is one part of onboarding that is always challenging. A year doesn't pass that there isn't a change in the forms for any number of states. For employers with locations in multiple states, the confusion is compounded. This is especially true if Human Resources [...]

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Universal Onboarding and ESS Portals Working Together

One of the things that I believe makes AllegroHR's Universal Onboarding software a Best of Breed product is ease of integration. If you have a third party portal supplied by an HRMS vendor, chances are we can interface with it. Connecting your onboarding system with an ESS (employee self service) portal makes sense for several [...]

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Minimize Litigation Costs – Distribute All Policies During Onboarding

As you know, eliminating errors and omissions on your state and federal new hire forms helps protect your company from getting in trouble during an audit. However, an effective onboarding system can also protect you in the event of an employee lawsuit. How does that work? Let's take a look at the Wage Payment and [...]

Categories: Blog by Chuck Ros | Emerald Software Group | HR | Human Resources | Onboarding