Emerald Software Now Offers Canadian Onboarding

Close on the heels of adding form W11 to our Universal Onboarding library, we've expanded our document list again. This time, we're including our neighbors "North of the Border" by making the TD-1 form available in electronic format. Both the national and provincial versions are in our universal forms library, so all Canadian employees are [...]

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Onboarding Part Time Workers

Part time workers make up a large part of the workforce, but they are often marginalized when it comes to the benefits that full time employees enjoy. This goes beyond just health insurance and paid holidays. Part timers usually don't have access to the same training and advancement tools that are offered to other workers. [...]

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Onboarding in the Restaurant Industry

At Emerald Software Group, we have the privilege of partnering with many other forward thinking software providers in related industries to bring our clients a full service experience. One of those strategic partnerships is with Restaurant Magic Software, a company that specializes in SaaS data management solutions for food service industry clients. Steve Roberts, founder [...]

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New Hire Acculturation - It's Personal

ICE Unveils New Strategic Plan The folks at Immigration and Customs Enforcement are really feeling their Wheaties this year. They’ve published a 7 page plan for how they’re going to fight crime and single handedly pull the U.S. from the brink of chaos over the next 5 years. OK, that’s an exaggeration. The document ICE [...]

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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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Is e-Verify For All Federal Contractors?

Workforce.com has once again hit one out of the park with an insightful article about e-Verify and how mandates regarding its use impact federal contractors. Author Eric Ledbetter walks step by step through the situations in which a contractor must use the e-Verify system, when it is advisable to do so voluntarily, and when it [...]

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Forms Automation vs. Fillable PDFs

The difference between taking a process online and truly automating that process is one that a lot of HR clients don't realize until they see it in action. Just the relief of going paperless can mask the fact that getting new hire forms filled out and distributed is tedious and time consuming – even if [...]

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Onboarding Accommodations

Are You Making Onboarding Accommodations? According to a recent article from USA Today, claims related to violation of the ADA are on the upswing. In 2009, over 21,000 charges were filed against U.S. employers by workers with disabilities. The accusations include unlawful firing, discrimination in promotions, and lack of reasonable accommodations. About 20% of these [...]

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Onboarding At-Will Employees

Onboarding At Will Employees – Managing Expectations If your company’s workforce is not unionized and you don’t otherwise create contracts of employment for workers, your organization probably falls under the category of an at-will workplace. This is understood in all 50 states as an agreement between both parties (employer and employee) that either party can [...]

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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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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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PEO Problems – Who's the Employer?

Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs)  have always been a subject of confusion in the HR field. With the outsourcing of the employer/employee relationship, the lines get blurred very easily. This is never more evident than when a lawsuit brings a problem to the attention of the court system and no one wants to take responsibility. Attorney John [...]

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Is Your Onboarding Good Enough

Is Your Onboarding Good Enough? In July, Workforce.com ran a story on “good enough HR“. This is a play on the idea of “good enough” parenting. Basically, some moms and dads are rejecting the idea that they have to be super-parents. Their kids will turn out just fine with plenty of love, a decent education, [...]

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Whitepaper - Moving HR Forward with Microsoft .Net Servers

This article, one of a series of articles and whitepapers by Emerald's legacy application modernization team, compares and contrasts the cost and support benefits of HR applications being migrated from mainframes to the .Net platform.

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Emerald Software and E-Discovery

In case you haven't noticed, the last decade or so has seen the coinage of dozens of new words based on developing technology and cultural memes. For example, you can use your i-Phone to carry on an e-Relationship with someone who shares your passion for LOLCats. However, the internet is not all fun and games. [...]

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Emerald Software Accepted as Member of Advanced Technology Development Center

Emerald Software Group announces today that the company has been accepted as a member in the Georgia Tech sponsored ATDC

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Social Media and Onboarding

GINA, Social Media, And Onboarding Part of the onboarding process (on the acculturation side) has to do with getting to know your new employees. There are lots of ways to do this. You can have ice breaking exercises during orientation, take the entire department out for lunch sometime during the new hire’s first week, and [...]

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Conditional Hiring and Onboarding

Conditional Hiring And Onboarding Attorney John P. Mahoney has a blog post up about the challenges of getting and keeping a security clearance for jobs at the federal level. The process of requisitioning and carrying out the type of extensive background check required to be granted clearance can be lengthy. Occasionally, this means employees are [...]

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Compliance Costs Presentation

A presentation version of Emerald's popular article, "The Hidden Costs of Non-Compliance in Hiring" is now available on Slideshare.net

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