Archived Webcasts and Podcasts

Everyone’s talking "cloud" these days but what exactly is it and how can it impact your payroll organization? Also, are all clouds created equal and, if not, what should you be looking for? Are all cloud solutions really safe? In this webinar, we will demystify the promise of the cloud and arm you with what you need to make tracking employees' time in the cloud simple and safe. We’ll discuss why and how the cloud is impacting business – and your life - today and why it can be an optimal solution for your employee time tracking needs. We’ll share real-life examples of how the cloud is being used to automate time and attendance while transforming payroll organizations from administrative centers to business partners with a new focus on helping the organization drive greater workforce productivity. We’ll also share best practice tips on what to look for in a cloud provider and how to spot cloud “imposters” and get exactly what you need to quickly, easily and safely deploy a cloud-based time tracking system that streamlines your payroll process. By attending this webinar, you will learn:

• What the cloud is and how it impacts your organization
• How an organization can benefit most from a cloud-based time and attendance solution
• How to use cloud-based time tracking to streamline payroll, increase productivity and drive visibility across your organization
• How to evaluate cloud-based providers and what key competencies you should look for in an ideal partner for your time tracking needs

Few businesses face as much complexity in payroll administration and accounting as manufacturing. Unions, irregular hours, government contracts, high turnover and immigration issues add to the challenges of multiple jobs, pay rates, state jurisdictions, and industry-specific reporting standards.

Ammu Warrier, a recognized expert in managing contingent workers for manufacturing companies, will provide practical advice for managing industrial worker time and expense. The session will cover:

• Work scheduling techniques that provide the workers needed for each production run
• Establishing and enforcing pay and work rules – consistently and accurately – across the organization.
• Curbing the rising rate of litigation over alleged violations of state and federal labor laws
• Building a Link between time management and worker safety
• Generating workforce intelligence data that ties actual labor costs to production, even when your labor picture includes complexities such as different wages, premium pay, partial shifts, and team allocation.

The intense competition and consolidation in the dining industry has forced businesses to continually seek out greater efficiencies and improved yield. As such, effective labor management has become more important than ever for the food and beverage industry.

Management is faced with the daily challenges of increasing guest satisfaction while minimizing employee turnover, and improving the business’ bottom line. Labor management issues such as optimal employee scheduling, wage and hour compliance, and the administration of new legislation such as the Affordable Care Act has forced many organizations to seek out more comprehensive technology beyond the features of existing Point-of-Sale (POS) systems.

Additionally, with labor costs being the largest, variable operational expense for food and beverage organizations (as high as 40% - 50% of costs), management is challenged with ways to reduce labor cost spending while decreasing employee turnover and not jeopardizing customer satisfaction. A comprehensive workforce management solution equips management with tools to monitor real-time staffing information, analyze budget performance and control labor costs, all while continuing to focus on increasing customer satisfaction and profit margins.

Within this session we will highlight the importance of managing labor, increasing labor effectiveness, ways to ensure labor compliance and how to motivate employees in a food and beverage setting. We will discuss strategies for operating your workforce more efficiently and ways to increase overall productivity and profitability.

The goal of this session is also to outline the labor management challenges facing the food and beverage industry and the emerging need for organizations to adopt more sophisticated workforce management solutions in order to stay competitive and to operate more profitability.

Manufacturers today are looking for new ways to increase productivity and control operational costs while continuing to support and focus on strategic growth initiatives. Manufacturing organizations are learning that an easy-to-own, integrated HR & payroll solution provides the complete automation and high-quality information you need to control labor costs, minimize compliance risks, and increase productivity – without the service bureau fees.

Join Kronos and Magnetek to hear how one manufacturer of digital power and motion control systems is using integrated HR & payroll solutions to streamline processes, reduce costs, and increase employee engagement.

Caitie Bowers, Senior Human Resources Generalist, Magnetek, will share insights and best practices on how to:

• Automate error-prone manual HR & payroll transactions
• Assess the impact of bringing payroll in house to eliminate service bureau fees
• Establish a single source for all employee information
• Leverage self-service capabilities to increase employee engagement

On January 1, 2014, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will impose a $2,000 per employee penalty on employers with 50 or more workers who do not offer health insurance to their full-time staff. This webinar shows HR professionals what to do right now to comply with this mandate.

Participants that join this webinar can expect to have a more complete understanding of how the Internal Revenue Service defines full time employees. We’ll also discuss leveraging the safe harbor method for determining the full time status of an existing employee. Using that same method, we’ll outline how to define the status of a new employee. Objectives also include determining the status of variable hour and seasonal workers, to ensure compliance as well as a thorough understanding of standard measurement and stability periods, as a means to classifying employees.

This is a demo, no certification credit will be given.

XpertHR is an award-winning online service that helps you ensure that your organization remains compliant with evolving and complex employment law issues at federal, state and municipal levels. We provide comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date guidance on employment laws and regulations across all jurisdictions which is tailored to the needs of the HR professional.

Our trustworthy content is written by the top law firms, including Littler Mendelson, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and Fisher & Phillips, LLP and is edited by our in-house team of legal, HR and payroll professionals. It is kept constantly up-to-date so you can utilize our guidance and tools with confidence knowing we provide you with the most current information and alert you to key employment law changes. We do the hard work for you - thereby taking the pressure off you and your team to stay informed.
XpertHR is so comprehensive that unlike our competitors, you can find the answers to all your employment law questions in one place. We cover all areas from recruitment through retirement including universal HR topics like the Affordable Care Act, FMLA and Discrimination, to the more niche challenges such as managing workers abroad. What is the value of XpertHR?
• We remove the need to check multiple resources to find answers to your questions
• You spend less time researching and more time doing your job
• You can have more effective conversations with counsel therefore often reducing costs and saving time
• Your team gains valuable HR knowledge and confidence

This demo will take you through our suite of practical tools such as interactive workflow charts, model policies and documents, how to guides and supervisor briefings - all designed to save time and reduce risk.

The California Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) recognizes the value employers provide to the child support program.

As a payroll or human resource professional it can get confusing keeping up with your roles and responsibilities as an employer.

Today’s webinar will provide you with the education you need regarding the child support process. Our focus is to provide employers with the latest changes, updates, laws and requirements as we work together to improve the lives of children. The law requires parents who owe child support to have it withheld from their pay. We hope you find this information helpful.

Cooperation between employers and the child support program is essential in supporting family self-sufficiency. We appreciate your cooperation and look forward to building a stronger partnership for the future.

This presentation will situate UI concerns for California employers in the context of national trends and conditions, and then focus on the state of UI in California. We will then move on to legal developments including UI integrity legislation and new state legislation targeting employee misclassification.

In California, cross-agency collaborations have resulted in increased numbers of audits aiming to recoup lost tax revenue for the state. We will look at data on payroll tax audits and enforcement within the state to see how this trend is affecting employers.

Finally, it’s important to offset your rising UI taxes by using employer credit programs. The CA EZ and WOTC credit programs have had significant developments so far in 2013 that employers should be aware of.

Temporary, freelance and project-based workers are fast becoming a staple of the U.S. workplace and research suggests that around a third of all jobs are now temporary in nature.

While utilizing temporary labor can provide significant cost savings over taking on internal, direct hire workers, engaging temporary staff of all kinds can expose your company to significant risks....especially in the great state of California!

Our virtual conference - led by Emergent President and California native, Bill Inman - will alert you to key CA compliance issues to watch out for and will show you how your company can mitigate these risks effectively.

Absenteeism is not something that is confined to a few sectors of the economy. It is one of the most persistent obstacles to productivity, profitability and competitiveness. In this webcast we look at how the latest developments in Time & Attendance and Labor Scheduling solutions are assisting World Class organizations to permanently reduce absenteeism. We uncover the many associated costs of absenteeism including; overtime, dissatisfied customers and the morale of workers expected to cover for absent employees. We explain why absenteeism remains a persistent problem for organizations, despite the fact that many organizations have first class policies on absence management in place.