With the holiday season right around the corner, thousands of companies are frantically searching for temporary employees to help them fulfill the burst in consumer demand that characterizes this time of year. To name just a few examples, the shipping giant UPS is set to hire an additional 100,000 employees while the retail clothing store…
Over the last 30 to 40 years, an increasing number of American companies have been moving their manufacturing production to Mexico. It hasn’t been until recent years, though, that this has gained a lot of national attention. The main reason for moving a company’s manufacturing to the neighboring country to the south is the significant…
There is perhaps no greater challenge for creating and tracking employee time and attendance than doing so for a medical or health care facility. Besides the basic need to monitor work time and attendance information, workforce management systems must be fully customizable to accommodate variable working patterns and work rules. There is also the need…
Tracking employees’ time and paying them appropriately is a large task for any organization. It becomes even more complicated, though, when a company’s workforce is made up of union workers. Most union contracts are constructed through collective bargaining agreements – contracts that were negotiated by the employer and the union that provide specific language for…
The modern Employee Management and Time and Attendance software solutions are designed to help supervisors better measure, analyze and manage employees’ working time, and deploy human resources more effectively. Essential features that organizations across a broad range of industries (manufacturing, transport, retail, health, construction, towns and municipal centers, service centers and small business) can benefit…
In the constant evolving word of technology, the word “manual” now has different interpretations. For some HR pros that have implemented time and attendance for towns and public sectors, HRIS, ATS, and payroll systems manual can mean entering a new hire into other systems like email, or expenses. What about those organizations that are still…
Let’s start with what we think a Labor Management System is. Human Resources is necessary in every industry, and with that, we all manage labor. If we are lucky, we are using a system. So, it’s an easy jump to say, “I know Labor Management Systems”, but it may come as a surprise to know…
A key issue faced by employers is how to deal with absence management in the workplace. This means finding a way to institute a comprehensive absence management policy that maximizes the days that employees come to work and minimizes the number of days they are absent. It is considered absenteeism when an employee is intentionally…