The HR Strategies Team
The professionals at HR Strategies have been in the Human Resource Outsourcing business for over twenty-five years, and HR Strategies' CEO has been a co-founder of the professional association, and acted in leadership roles on a state and federal level in the industry for over twenty years. With over two hundred and fifty years of combined HR experience, our dedicated staff is ready to assist you with all of your business' Human Resource needs inclusive of: the disciplines of employee relations; employee policies, procedures, and handbooks; health, dental, and supplemental benefits; retirement plans; state and federal employment laws and regulatory compliance; Title VII training and consulting; management and employee training and development; and unemployment claims management. Our friendly staff, welcoming team environment, and individual attention to our client's needs are part of what makes us different from our competition. We make it a point to form solid, long lasting relationships with each of our clients.
HR Strategies is dedicated to the success of your company by providing the latest and best industry resources available as well as constant access to live customer support. Our professionals work in partnership with your employees to give you the freedom to focus on your business and the bottom line.
We invite you to enjoy the benefits of working with HR Strategies today. Let us help you find new ways through which your business can experience the freedom to grow.
To learn more about HR Strategies and our solutions, please use our Contact Page to send us a message, or call HR Strategies' Sales at
770-339-0000.
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HR Strategies Relocates to Suwanee, Georgia!
On December 7th, 2015 HR Strategies relocated to a new office location at 415 Horizon Drive, Building 200, Suite 200, Suwanee, GA 30024. The new location is less than 6 miles from the previous place of business and is conveniently situated along the I-85 corridor. This space is an investment into providing more services for clients, and includes a dedicated training center to host client specific trainings, management training seminars, as well as many other functions.
On Thursday, January 14th, 2016, HR Strategies hosted an open house at our new location, allowing clients and invited guests to tour the new space and see the many ways that our new location will enhance the services that are offered!
Guests were invited to enjoy refreshments in the new onsite training room while meeting the internal staff. This allowed them time to put faces with names and meet our benefits, payroll and client service reps that they talk to on a regular basis.
During the Open House we were able to give a brief demonstration of the upcoming enhancements to the Human Resource Information System (HRIS) that our clients interface with, enabling them to see the continued investment we are making into providing top of the line services and technology platforms.
The turnout by clients was fabulous and we even gave away an Apple Watch to one lucky guest! The Open House was also an opportunity for our guests to network with a sample of the diverse selection of clients using our services. In this economy, HR Strategies wants to provide as many growth opportunities as possible to our clients!
Congratulations Claus Boelter, the winner of the
Apple Watch in our Open House raffle!
Thanks to everyone who attended our Open House and helped make it a success.
Stay connected for our next training session for another chance to win great prizes!
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Are You Prepared for the New Overtime Rules?
One of the biggest HR topics last year was the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in regards to the FLSA Overtime Exemption. While the final rule has not been published, and therefore the standards and amounts are not set in stone, the NPRM has slated that the minimum annual salary threshold for executive, administrative, and professional overtime exemptions will potentially double by increasing from $23,660 to $50,440.
The Department of Labor is expected to issue a final rule during the spring of 2016, with an effective date of the final rule 60 to 120 days after publication; but this is just speculation. This is now the time to make sure you are prepared.
Below is a check list to get you started on making sure you are ready for the proposed changes. Please keep in mind that every business and industry is different, so this is not a comprehensive list, but rather a good starting point.
- Review employees job descriptions. Are they still accurate? Do the actual job duties fall within the exempt status?
- Identify exempt salaried employees with a salary below $50,440 or $970 per week.
- Identify the true hours worked per salaried exempt employee who makes less than $50,440 yearly. Start having salaried employees, which are below the $50,440 threshold, track their actual time worked if they are not already.
- Determine if it is better to raise the employee's salary to $50,440 based on the average number of hours they are working, or if it is better to classify them as non-exempt from overtime.
- If reclassifying to non-exempt, determine if you will take their current annual salary and divide it by 2,080 hours (40 hours per 52 weeks a year) to achieve what their new hourly rate may be.
- If the employees who will be reclassified as non-exempt are consistently working over 40 hours per week, consider if overtime will be allowed or if it will be discouraged, and if so, how much will be allowed.
- If you will implement a policy discouraging overtime for employees newly classified as non-exempt, determine if certain tasks and jobs will need to be reassigned to another employee.
- Determine if additional employees need to be hired as a result of job duty changes, rather than possibly incurring additional overtime.
- Take a look at "remote work" currently performed by salaried employees. If employees who are currently exempt will be reclassified as non-exempt, now is the time to look at your policies regarding after work hours, business phone calls and emails that are being read and/or responded to.
- Prepare a plan of how to explain the classification changes to employees, and what the changes will mean to them and their paychecks.
Summing it up, look at job descriptions, pay rates near the threshold, and especially at hours worked. If you are unsure of just how many hours those exempt employees are working, now is the time to start tracking them.
For further questions regarding the proposed changes, please contact our
HR/Client Services Department at 770-339-0000, option 3 or
via email at [email protected].
If you are in need of a Time & Attendance solution to track your employees hours,
please contact us at 770-339-0000 or [email protected].
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Management Training Series: Value Added Service
When you become a client of HR Strategies you will also have access to our Management Training Series in whichwe hold complimentary instructor led 3-hour training sessions at our training center in Suwanee, Georgia. These complimentary sessions, held in order to educate and help improve your business, are on a wide variety of subjects including, but not limited to, employment legal updates, sexual harassment prevention, wage and hour, discrimination, and employee life cycle. Furnishing these top-notch management training sessions to clients allows HR Strategies to prepare their clients for a variety of workplace regulations, as well as to deliver the support needed to foster and promote a sound workplace.
During 2015, we held training sessions on the Legal Landscape of the EEOC and Major FLSA Changes on the Horizon.
One of our goals as a company is to go above and beyond for each and every one of our clients, and this is just one of the ways we are striving to reach that goal. As always, the training sessions are complimentary for our clients, who can expect to enjoy top-of-the-line speakers and a delicious catered lunch compliments of HR Strategies. The Management Training Series proves to be another way that HR Strategies bestows the value of HR outsourcing to our client companies.
Contact your Client Services Representative today to receive information on future seminars.
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Philanthropy: Angel Tree
Every year during the holiday season, the Quinn House distributes paper angels to our office. On each of these hand decorated angels is the name of a child, the child's age, and a toy they would like for Christmas.
The HR Strategies Staff displays these angels in their front entry way for internal employees to take and purchase the gift for each child. These gifts are then picked up by the Quinn House, who distributes the gifts to children all over Georgia for Christmas morning. Most of these children don't receive anything else during the holiday season, and we are happy to be fortunate enough to be able to provide these children with a gift during the holidays.
Our staff is pleased to know that we were a small part of brightening a child in need's Christmas morning.
To learn more about our Philanthropic efforts visit:
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Department Spotlight: Payroll
Generally speaking, employees view payroll as simply receiving a paycheck. As a business owner, you are aware of the time consuming process that is involved in preparing those paychecks, distributing them, and the myriad of reporting and tax filing that comes as a result of paying your employees. The process of payroll demands time from an employer; time that could be better utilized concentrating on the revenue-producing side of your operations.
 Our Payroll Department is overseen by Angie Passmore, Director of Payroll Operations, of who oversees the daily operations of the payroll department and is responsible for maintaining the highest level of accuracy within our processes. In addition, Angie is responsible for setting up and managing new clients through their first few payroll cycles. She supplies clients with customized reports and helps with the management of garnishments. HR Strategies' dedicated payroll specialists, Kathya Fulleda, Sharon Farrar, and Vickie Webb, who each have over 10 years of payroll processing experience within our organization, easily manage employee information, and simplify your payroll process by checking for accuracy, offering the option of pre-approval by clients, preparing direct deposits and checks, preparing garnishments, and processing a variety of management reports and payroll registers.
Our comprehensive HR Information System allows seamless payroll integration with your company's accounting system, as well as the ability to make address corrections, get online pay stubs, and reprint W2s. As a client of HR Strategies, you have the option of going green and becoming paperless, receive your reports electronically, and have web notification when they are ready! If you choose not to go paperless, we have a variety of delivery options for you to receive your comprehensive payroll package. These options will include: direct deposit stubs and/or live checks, invoice, payroll register/journals, payroll worksheets for the next pay period, allocation reports, benefit reports, and other client specified management reports. With HR Strategies, clients rest assured that all of the results of running payroll are handled, with on-time and accurate filing of all payroll related taxes to the correct authorities.
Nothing can destroy morale as quickly as a problem that affects pay. Let us handle the complex requirements of payroll processing for you. With our powerful integrated solution, on-site support and personal service, you know that the responsibilities of payroll have been handled completely and accurately, allowing you to focus on your core business. Our personal attention and commitment to you through our payroll team, with your assigned dedicated payroll specialist, will strive to help you run your business better by handling the busy work for you.
To learn more about HR Strategies and our solutions,
please visit our website at
www.hr-strategies.com or call HR Strategies' Sales at 770-339-0000.
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