Retirement, Seperation and Termination 101- Advanced Class

I learned how to do the paperwork for a disability retirement. It is not that hard, you just have to make sure you dot all your i's and cross all your t's.

Monica asked that I contact the retiree to get all the needed information to get the ball rolling. The retiree seemed like such a nice man. I hope all goes better in his retirement.

The next one was the company seperation. An associate decided it was time to move on. We did a basic seperation on a basic Action Form.

Then there was the termination. I see that to do a termination, you must make sure you follow protocol. That includes making sure all company property is returned, all passwords are given and you are correctly (legally) removing an employee. For this situation we sent out the letter certified telling the associate of his rights to COBRA, pension, 401(k) and other employee interests.

The Human Resources Center

The Human Resources Center

Here are some pictures of the room. I swear this is neat compared to what it looked like below. LaShanda got to the room on Friday. It was really bad. She went in there and straightened it and made some seblance of order.

Even though most prospective recruiters have been scoffing at the idea of hiring a librarian, here is a place where library skills are a plus. I know this is not that great of a picture, it is far too dark. I had drawn up plans as how best to display the paperwork on the wall. I know I am supposed to supress the librarian and loose the new HR professional in myself, but some tasks ask to use all of your skill sets. I am going to put them in the order of importance and use.

You just don't understand it was not this neat before, I promise! LaShanda did a good job all by herself.

This table is neat now compared with before. I will take more pictures as I progress.

I Have Seen the Room, and It Ain't Pretty

I am just about finished with two of my three projects for Horsburgh & Scott. The first was reading over the employee manual, filing the re enrollment forms and then organizing the Human Resources room.

This is a room Monica and LaShanda want to use for filling out forms, interviewing, accepting offers and other great HR duties.

Well, on my first day LaShanda showed the room to me. I only saw it through the long glass window on the door. I said oh, this won't be too bad I can do this in about two days (six hours). OK, needless to say, I was wrooong. This room has all kinds of stuff. Papers, booklets, notebooks everything they were too afraid to pitch.

Believe it or not this is right up my alley. I love to organize and get everything in some semblance of order. Maybe that's another reason why I like the library. I will take my library (organizing) background and go to it.

I will take pictures and post them as I go along. See the transformation at work. If only my digital camera was advanced enough to have time lasped photography.

BWC, STD, LTD, Oh My

A little background on Horsburgh and Scott. It is a leading manufacturer of gear and gear drives. This is a manufacturing company. From what I see more company's want a person with a manufacturing HR background than a strictly corporate. That may or may not be true, but a lot of the positions I have applied for have asked for this background.

I will be working primarily with LaShanda, Monica's assistant. Today she taught me how to log Bureau of Worker's Comp (BWC) checks. I also learned how to pay the payees.

This is a fairly simple task. You must first

1. Find all filed bills. (The bills are always date stamped to ensure accurate and timely payment)
2. Match all bills with checks to be paid.
3. All checks are logged under the type of check they are e.g. physician pay or if the checks go to the employee.

This is not the entire task, but who wants to be bored by the drudgery of what goes on at work.

I want to now learn how to input a new claim into the system.

I also saw what kind of HRIS they have. The way many company's talk about their system it is like learning something you've never done before. H & S's system seem to be a Windows based system just like our SIRSI library system. To tell you the truth they even look very similiar, same colors and icons.

While on the topic of HRIS, I will be attending the local IHRIM meeting with Debra Wells (see earlier post). This group is the technical side of HR.

If You Can't Get Paid For It Do It For FREE

OK I hope you are sitting down for this. I am now an intern. Oh my God. I kept seeing the brick wall to my face. No amount of 60 second commercials, revamping of the resume, sending out said resume or calling to introduce myself to people will beat this experience.

I am interning at Horsburgh & Scott a manufacturing company in Cleveland.

I met Monica Priester at a SHRM meeting. I just started talking to her and before she left she gave me her card. I decided to call her and find out how she came to be in the HR field. I went to her office and we talked for about one hour. I emailed her to thank her and decided to ask if she needed an intern, she said yes.

Along with her assistant LaShanda, we will have three projects to finish:

• Read over the Employee Manual and give my outside opinion.
• Organize Human Resources Room
• Put together re-enrollment forms.

She asked me what I wanted to learn. I told her I wanted to learn the HR tasks that come up most often ion job descriptions. Tasks such as:

• FMLA
• BWC
• Benefits

I just want a well rounded education. I want to be able to apply what I learned in my class to the actual task.