Just some HR tips and updates for you this month!
FMLA
As a reminder, the Family Medical Leave Act is available for any employee who meets the following eligibility requirements:
Out of work for more than 3 days due to a personal or family illness, medical need or other similar situations.
Has been with us for at least 12 months (does NOT need to be consecutive)
And has worked at least 1250 hours
That’s a LOT to remember!! So – the easiest thing to do is when you have an employee out for more than 3 days – just email us and ASK for a Leave of Absence Request Form! We can then understand who it is, why they are out and if needed, inform the employee of their rights under FMLA!
Paid Time Off
As stated in the employee handbook, PTO is paid out at a MAX 8 hours per day or 40 hours a week, regardless of what their work schedule is. This means, that even if you have an employee who “normally” works 4@10 hour days a week instead of 5@8hour days a week, their daily limit is still 8 hours. We have recently seen some GMs putting in 10, 11 or 12 hours on a given day. These PTO days will automatically be corrected during the payroll process, so make sure you are helping our payroll team out by only adding in 8 hours per day.
Terminating Employees Timely
It is very important to keep up to date on your current employee database. This means, making sure you are terminating those employees who no longer work for you. Some reminders on why we ask that you do this:
You pay a UKG fee for every employee that is showing as active in your system. That means it is costing you money to keep employees in the system who don’t really work there!
An employee who doesn’t work for you but is not terminated in the system and has earned paid time off sitting in their bucket may be entitled to that PTO under state law. If we don’t know to pay them… we are putting our company at risk.
An employee who doesn’t work there anymore but had benefits is still able to potentially use those benefits if they’ve not been termed in the system. This is also potentially costing you money!
COMING UP! 401K Open Enrollment starts June 1st.
This is the mid-year opportunity to make changes to your 401k plan, increase your contributions, decrease your contributions, change your investment options, etc. Additional info will be coming soon.
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