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FROM THE PRESiDENT
As you settle into the New Year and begin
to tackle the business goals you established for 2006, have you taken the
time to incorporate your human capital needs as part of your company’s business goals?
As you develop your goals, thoughtfully
consider whether your current workforce can support and achieve them. Some
items to consider when planning the New Year include:
- Do you have to increase or decrease staff numbers this year
in order to support the business goals?
- Is the current staff trained appropriately to help carry-out
these goals?
- Are you motivating your employees to support these goals?
- Do your employees know what the business goals are and do
they see a direct correlation between their work and the company’s success?
- Are you competitive with pay and benefits?
- Do you have an effective and productive performance
management and salary increase program in place?
- What was last year’s turnover rate and what do you need to better retain employees?
HRi can help develop strategic staffing
and staff development plans through a variety of methods. Some of the tools
offered are:
- employee satisfaction surveys
- focused staff development and management training programs
- development of performance management programs
- salary surveys and more
Contact Jena Weigel, HR Business Partner,
at jweigel@hri-online.com for more information.
Web Site FAQ's
We recently created UserIds and passwords
for all employees to login to our website. Employees received a letter in
December informing them of their login information. Remember, the HRi
website includes a wealth of information, including:
- Employee Pay History
- W2s (you must navigate to the year in the upper right corner
first)
- Paid Time Off Accruals (if HRi tracks this information for
your employer)
- Benefit Enrollment Forms
- Payroll Forms
If you experience problems viewing or
logging into the website, please consider the following:
- UserIds and Passwords are case sensitive
- The website requires Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 5.5 or higher. If you do not have this program, click here
to download.
- Clear out your cookies
and temporary Internet files. If an older version of the website is
stored in your computer's cache it may not display properly. Click here
for instructions on how to maintain your temporary Internet files.
- Disable your popup
blocker for the HRi website. Most of the reports on our website
require Adobe Acrobat, which will display the results in another
window. Your system may deem this new window as a “pop-up”.
For instructions on how to manage your pop-up blocker, click here.
If you have any questions or issues about the web please
contact Betsy Monaghan, Systems Manager, at bmonaghan@hri-online.com or
443.321.7715.
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Happy New Year!!
Welcome
to the January 2006 edition of DiRECTIONS. In this issue, Tim offers
items to consider while establishing your 2006 business goals. Next, we
discuss the HRi website, Workers' Compensation and 401(k) issues.
Later,
we invite our employees to take advantage of a new offer from VitalView,
an MRI and CT scanning company.
Finally,
we ask you to take this month's 401(k) participation survey and we supply
results from last month's Job-Seeking Survey.
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Workers' Compensation
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Workers’ compensation is a
benefit mandated by all 50 states. As a
business owner, you are aware of the importance not only for the health
of your business but for the health and well-being of your employees.
Staying on top of workplace injuries and reporting them appropriately
can help keep your workers’ compensation
rates down and your workforce healthy.
The determination to submit a First
Report of Injury (FROI) is not up to the employee or the employer. It’s a must, regardless of how minor the injury or
whether the employee seeks medical attention.
It is important to plan ahead. Most
companies establish an internal policy of how a supervisor should
respond when an injury occurs. All supervisory personnel should be
aware of the reporting requirements and should be able to direct an
employee to local occupational health providers and their options for
medical treatment. Occupational medical providers are familiar with
occupational injuries and workers’ compensation issues. A statewide list of medical providers is
available at www.iwif.com.
In some states, such as Maryland, an employer can not dictate the
medical provider. If the injured employee prefers to go to an
alternative facility, such as their regular doctor, that is also
acceptable.
It is
also the worksite employer’s
responsibility to complete and submit a FROI to HRi. If HRi does not administer
your company’s workers’ compensation
policy, you should have your insurance provider’s information available in order to submit the FROI
directly to the carrier. Whether or not HRi administers your policy, a
FROI should be submitted as soon as possible. Most carriers, as well as
HRi, require submitting the FROI within 24 hours of learning of the
injury.
The
FROI can be found on the HRi website. Ideally, the FROI is completed by
the immediate supervisor of the injured employee. Even if an injury is
not severe enough to warrant a Doctor’s
care, a FROI must be completed and will be filed as notice only. Often
enough, an injury can be more severe than initially perceived and will
require attention at a later date.
Should
you have any questions regarding workers' compensation injuries or the
First Report of Injury, please contact Julie George at 443.321.7712 or
jgeorge@hri-online.com.
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Take
Advantage of VitalView
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 Make a
resolution to be healthy in 2006. HRi has a new discounted rate through
VitalView of Annapolis. Call VitalView today at 410.571.1433 or go to
the VitalView
website to learn more about the body scans available through the
HRi discounted plan. Let them know that you or a family member is
affiliated with HRi and you will be given our exclusive rate.
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401(k)
Deductions
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 If you are
enrolled in the HRi 401(k) Savings Plan and will receive bonus or
commission payments in additional to your regular compensation, and you
do not want to have your 401(k) deduction applied to this compensation,
please fill out a Bonus Election Form and indicate ZERO. You can
download this form by logging into our website and selecting the
Documents link. You can indicate a specific date, or apply this request
to any additional compensation received in 2006 by indicating the
period 01/01/06 to 12/31/06. You may also request to have a different
amount or percentage applied to any bonus or commission compensation
deferred to your 401(k) account by filling out this form and indicating
the desired amount. If you do not fill out this form and you receive
any additional compensation in 2006, HRi will apply your normal 401(k)
deduction.
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Take our
Survey!
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 Click here
to take this month's 401(k) participation survey.
To
view the results of last month's Job-Seeking Survey, click here.
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