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Payroll

Ensuring your employees receive accurate and timely compensation is the foundation of your business’ success. Complying with agency regulations, ensuring timely payment of wages and salaries, producing accurate paychecks and recording fnancial and lawful records of your company’s payments are all components of the payroll process.

Employee Communications

Employee communications can have a critical impact on your business. Providing the right employee communication may help prevent employee turnover and absenteeism while also providing a focus on your business’ objectives and mission. With professional company employee handbooks to document policies, employees may put in that extra effort because they are informed about aspects of their job and the business.

Benefts

Business owners who understand that employees are interested in more than wages alone may achieve the competitive edge they need to succeed in the market by keeping their employees happy with added benefts. Comprehensive benefts go beyond health insurance and retirement plans. Benefts such as 401(k) plans, fexible spending accounts, bonuses, service awards and tuition reimbursement help complete a benefts package that can attract qualifed employees.

Safety/OSHA

Businesses must constantly strive to reduce risk to their employees, the public and the environment from their processes. Understanding the regulations under which an industry must comply and the proper implementations of the tools and techniques that can be used to meet to reduce risk are an integral aspect of human resources.

Compliance

Whether you have one employee or 10, ensuring compliance with employment laws is your responsibility as a business owner. New and frequent changes in employment laws and variations in laws from state to state can challenge even the most seasoned human resources professional.

Interviewing and Hiring

One of the most important aspects of any business is recruiting, selecting and retaining top people. If your company relies on outdated and ineffective interviewing and hiring techniques, it could be losing money. Hiring and interviewing is an important aspect of human resources; however, this critical responsibility sometimes gets the least emphasis.

Training

In today’s economy, if your business isn’t learning, you may fall behind your competitors. Your employees are the ones who produce, deliver and manage your products or services every day; therefore, placing the right

focus on motivating and developing those employees is an essential component of your human resources plan. Successful training and recognition programs may help you see a positive impact on your bottom line.

Termination/

Employee Separation

Employee turnover and separation from an organization is a fact of the business environment. When an employee leaves a company, the procedures that are necessary to properly close their file can seem daunting. Understanding this process is also critical to your business operation.

ORA Strategic Partner Paychex provides all ORA members a 15 percent discount off of payroll processing and HR services setup fees. The company also offers an extensive suite of payroll processing and employee benefts solutions for restaurants of all sizes. To learn more, call 800-729-2439 and mention code 5583, or visit www.paychex.com.