Services

HR Management

Systematic, on-going, and knowledgeable HR expertise is critical to the success of every organization. Understanding the complexity of the multitude of regulations surrounding employment cannot be achieved casually. The primary reason that regulatory compliance is so difficult for small business owners is that its origins are numerous and intertwined. No company should risk learning about employment regulations by suffering through a formal complaint or a lawsuit. Working Solutions is able to audit your existing company policies and procedures and provide feedback regarding your risk exposure and how to reduce it. For added protection our Client Service Agreement extends Employment Practice Liability insurance coverage to client companies.

Safety & Risk Management

Working Solutions will assume administration of your company’s worker compensation, unemployment insurance, and safety compliance. As a Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO) company, Working Solutions will manage these mandated programs for you, professionally and economically. From OSHA compliance to customized safety and training programs we assure our worksite employers that exposure to risk can be substantially reduced and business owners can have the peace of mind they deserve.

Employee Policies

Most businesses need some formal written policies – whether an actual “handbook” or a collection of pages on key topics. It is a type of preventive medicine, and can also serve as a good business planning tool.

  • They will help you and your managerial staff save time. Formal policies help cut down on answering the same questions over and over again.
  • Handbooks are a way to document expectations and obligations of management and staff.
  • Written policies create uniformity and help prevent disputes.
  • When you write policies you spend time thinking about the messages you want the employees to have regarding your business. Using a handbook to distribute those messages can improve leadership, and help keep the business on track with its mission.
  • Written policies, consistently enforced, can help avoid legal disputes later on down the road. A well drafted and enforced handbook can ward off accusations of favoritism; it provides clear guidance on the company’s position(s) against discrimination / retaliation / harassment and provides information on how to report any violations.
  • A handbook or other written policies are also a good way to communicate information the business is legally obligated to provide anyway. For example, the Fair Labor Standards Act requires businesss to explain which employees are subject to overtime laws and how overtime is calculated and paid for.
  • A handbook is a way to think through and communicate the company’s disaster readiness plan. In light of the recent natural disasters in this country, not to mention man made disasters, this can be extremely important in protecting the company and its employees.

Performance Management Systems Design

Managing the performance of individual employees can be the single greatest challenge and source of frustration to managers and supervisors. Working Solutions will develop a user friendly performance management system with built in follow up that starts with accurate job descriptions. Let Working Solutions coach your supervisors through this process to deliver effective performance management so everyone can get back to business!

Recruiting

Using effective recruitment strategies for executive, technical, professional and administrative staff determines the quality of your applicant pool. Utilizing objective, predictive, and reliable assessment systems will produce better job fit, higher performance and longevity of future employees. Eliminate the false positive and false negative hiring decisions that can be the demise of an otherwise brilliant business model.

Pre-employment

Regardless of the size of your business, pre-employment screening is a necessary hiring practice to avoid lawsuits and costly hiring mistakes. Gone are the days of a simple reference check and a few phone calls to screen new employees. Amid security concerns, corporate embezzlements, and workplace violence, with pre-employment screening Working Solutions makes background screening a standard part of the hiring process.

Compensation System Analyses and Design

Do you ever wonder if your company is underpaying or overpaying its employees? Are you maintaining your competitive edge in the employee marketplace? Research and analysis of your compensation program will save you the risk of losing your top performers and avoid inefficient and counterproductive allocation of financial resources.

Workflow and Staffing Analyses

Workflow management is a system of overseeing the process of passing information, documents, and tasks from one employee or machine within a business to another. Through proper workflow management, each of these employees or machines will pass the work on according to a predetermined procedure. As technology advances, much workflow management has become automated and takes advantage of special software to make the process much smoother.

Staffing Organizational Ramp-Ups

Professional management of growth and expansion efforts will have long-term positive effects on the future of your company. Creation and implementation of a staffing plan will ensure a successful transition to a larger workforce without losing the momentum of positive market forces.

Benefits Enrollment, Administration and Management

From qualifying events and COBRA compliance to negotiating better rates and expanding your benefit programs Working Solutions can enrich and protect your benefit plans through proper management, analysis, and strategic planning.

Personnel Records

Effective employee management requires accurate and useful personnel records. Several laws contain either explicit or implicit recordkeeping requirements. These laws include the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) , the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) , the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) , the Rehabilitation Act , Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) , Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) , the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and others. Working Solutions designs and implements record retention systems that comply with these requirements while providing supervisors and employees with the information they need.

Unlimited Phone Support

So often managers and supervisors need someone to answer their day to day questions about employment policies and requirements. They frequently need a sounding board who will provide knowledgeable objective advice about employee issues and the proper action that they should or should not take. Working Solutions provides that resource anytime and every time you need it.