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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FMLA Notice Required During Onboarding

DOL Rules Require FMLA Notice During Onboarding In 2009, a new regulation from the DOL went into effect. This expands on the previous notification requirements regarding FMLA. A general notice poster is still, of course, required to be posted in common areas where it is easily visible to employees. It must also be included in your [...]

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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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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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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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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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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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ICE Gets Paid After Massive I9 Audit

ICE Gets Paid After Massive I9 Audit Have you seen those TV ads for lawyers who say they can help you reduce the back taxes and fines you owe the IRS? Perhaps the Internal Revenue Service will negotiate for pennies on the dollar to settle your tax woes. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is an entirely different [...]

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New York New Hires

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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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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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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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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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 [...]

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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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Scott Williams Quote

Scott Williams, former VP of HR for Coca-Cola and now President of The Stonehaven Group, recently said some pretty nice things about us.

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E-Verify Reliability Called Into Question

E-Verify Reliability Called Into Question I guess it shouldn't come as a shock that a system created and run by the government has been shown to perform at a subpar level. The whole point of the E-Verify program is to ensure that employees are authorized to work in the U.S. and identify those who aren't. Apparently, [...]

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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 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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