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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Emerald Software and The Stonehaven Group Sign Partnership

Partnership combines best-of-breed workforce management technology from Emerald Software with comprehensive HR strategy, compliance, and management services from Stonehaven.

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Easy Mondays, Part 1



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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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Onboarding at Inflection HR

A Case Study discussing the success of implementing our Universal Onboarding system at leading PEO Inflection HR

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HR Onboading - My role at Emerald Software Group

New York New Hires About To Become More Informed The state of New York has had a rule in place for a while now that requires employers to disclose certain information to new hires. This includes their rate of pay (both regular and overtime) and the regular pay day when they can expect to receive their [...]

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Mainframe Migration



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California Employment Law – Alternative Workweeks

California Employers Should Clarify Schedules During Onboarding In 2009, a bill passed in California that gives employers and employees more choices. If the business owner and a two-thirds majority of employees agree, an alternative workweek schedule can be implemented. This agreement would allow workers to select from a couple of different overtime arrangements. One choice would be [...]

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Onboarding Policy Acknowledgements

Onboarding Policy Acknowledgements – Know Your Limits When was the last time you reviewed the agreements you ask new hires to sign during onboarding? A recent ruling in California raises some important questions about what you can and cannot ask employees to sign. In the case of Maria Pellegrino v. Robert Half International, an employer was [...]

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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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HR & IT

This article, one of a series of articles and whitepapers by Emerald's legacy application modernization team, discusses the importance for HR & IT to collaborate on legacy workforce application modernization, and offers suggestions on how to work together.

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Form I9 Data Security

Is Your Confidential I9 Data Protected? Last month, a Texas based SaaS vendor got a pie in the face over a possible breach in their data security for I9 information. State agencies in Minnesota had contracted with Lookout Services to act as their designated agent in processing I9s through E-Verify. The state was in for a [...]

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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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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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Emerald Software Joins Mainframe Migration Alliance

Emerald Software Group announces today that the company has been accepted into the Mainframe Migration Alliance.

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EEOC Questions Efficiency of Criminal Background Screening

EEOC Questions Efficiency of Criminal Background Screening Fay Hanson at Workforce Management has posted a thought provoking article on criminal background checks (site registration is free and well worth it). Currently, most employers perform some type of screening for convictions as part of the onboarding process either pre or post hiring. The idea behind criminal background [...]

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Emerald Software Awarded GSA Contract

Emerald Software Group announces today that the company has been awarded a GSA multiple award schedule contract for its paperless workforce management products

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Emerald Software Is On SlideShare.Net

Emerald Software Group announces today that the company has published its popular "Onboarding Best Practices Brief" as a presentation on the popular website slideshare.net.

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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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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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