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Lone Riders Roundtable - how it works?
In order to become a member of the Lone Riders, you have to meet the following requirements:
- Have a valid membership with the Human Resources Association of BC (HRMA)
- Be a sole HR practitioner (1 to 2 HR professionals per organization maximum)
- Let the organizer of this group, Vicki Lloyd (vicki.lloyd@philips.com) know your motivation to become part of the group in a few sentences.
Note for non-working members: Membership in this group is provided for up to one year for members who are not currently working.
Once you complete the enrollment process you will be able to email to a group of over 65 Lone Riders (sole HR professionals) - a wealth of knowledge. When you send an email to the central address, your message is distributed to all the members of the group. You will also receive a copy of your own message (which is a good way to check that your email has gone out) since your email address will also be part of the group.
If you have an answer to any of the posted questions you would email whoever posted the question directly and after 2 weeks that person is responsible to compile the responses and send a summary to the group.
Questions and answers can be on any related subjects. Here are some samples sent to the group:
SAMPLE 1:
We have an employee that gets commission as well as base salary and wants to
defer his commission payments from time to time. From a legal stand point,
do we have any exposure for doing this and should we have something signed
off from him?
SAMPLE 2:
I'm am going to update our employee handbook I was wondering if anyone had
any tips on what needs to go into the handbook - are there any guides I can
use?
Should a Handbook be part of the employee contract, therefore employees
should sign a document to say they have read and understood the handbook.
Any help would be appreciated.
SAMPLE 3:
I have a few questions with regard to HRIS Systems, if you wouldn't mind sharing:
1) What Human Resource system do you use? For how long?
2) Is the System Payroll and HR all in one?
3) Are you happy with the system? Any shortcomings?
4) What about report-writing - does the system create valuable and usable reports?
5) Did you have to do a lot of customization to your reports or were the standard reports adequate?
6) Does your system cover all aspects of HR (Benefits, Salary Planning, Performance Management, Training & Development, Attendance/Absence Tracking (for all sick days, vacation, overtime, leaves, etc.)
7) What has the training and support been like by the provider?
SAMPLE 4:
Regarding Maternity/Parental Leave, have you ever had a temporary employee
or part-time employee take this leave? If so, what have you done if the
employee's term date ends during their leave (2 months after they take the
leave), are you obligated to hire them back??
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