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Tis The Time Of Year When Payroll Calculations Can Go Wrong

November 27th, 2014 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Cloud Time and Attendance | Collective Bargaining | Employee Scheduling | Employee Self Service | Workforce Management Software - (Comments Off on Tis The Time Of Year When Payroll Calculations Can Go Wrong)

The holiday season brings with it good cheer, happiness in the workplace and, anticipation of the office parties. For some companies, the holidays also means hiring temporary workers to fulfill orders or cover shifts of employees that are taking time-off during the season. And, if your company, is using a excel spreadsheets to create employee schedules and paper time cards to track attendance there is a real chance, you will miss the hours that these temporary employees worked.

You can increase both the happiness and productivity of your employees this holiday season by using a system, to accurately track, report and pay employees on-time, for hours worked.

Solution benefits for using ATS Time and Attendance include:

Increase flexibility and reduce costs
ATS Time and Attendance System helps companies achieve higher productivity, which, in turn propels better decision-making. Through the use of ATS time and attendance, you gain access to a flexible, cloud-based solution that’s easy-to-use, and will grow with your business.

Strive for excellence
Streamline payroll processes, and empower your employee to work more productively by giving them access to their self-service portal.  Through the use of ATS workforce planning, you achieve greater operational excellence by extracting the right information from time clock data and using them to drive better-informed, faster decision making.

Increase innovation and future growth
When you take advantage of the best-in-class technology with ATS cloud-based time and attendance, you are tap into 21st century workforce management software tools that can be accessed from virtually anywhere, any time, and on any device.

The bottom line; you don’t have to use manual processes to track employee time over the holidays. ATS time and attendance can manage every aspect of employee leave management, including federal, provincial/state, collective bargaining agreements (CBA), and corporate policies, in a single powerful cloud-based solution: ATS Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) solution.

To learn more, download a demonstration or call us at 866.294.2467.

Tis The Time Of Year When Payroll Calculations Can Go Wrong

 

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Simplify Your Company Data Capture Process

September 25th, 2014 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Biometric Time Clock | Business Intelligence | Collective Bargaining | Employee Time and Attendance - (Comments Off on Simplify Your Company Data Capture Process)

ATS TimeWork Time and Attendance is a complete solution that helps your company grow efficiently. The ATS time clocks records and sends accurate data, in real-time to payroll, thus, eliminating duplicate entry. ATS TimeWork is quick to implement, easy-to-use Workforce Management Solutions (WFM) software that helps thousands of companies across Canada and the US manage their payroll, HR, operations, finance and supply chain and grow their business.

ATS Time and Attendance solutions are in use across a broad section of industries, including; manufacturing, healthcare, retail, industrial machinery and oil & gas. Our customers include small, mid-size and enterprises across every vertical. ATS Time and Attendance solutions allow quick implementations, and provide cost-effective support for changing business demands.

Here are 5 industry segments that benefits through the use of an ATS Time and Attendance Solution:

Manufacturing-ATS Time and Attendance helps manufacturers reduce costs, expand profit margins, and increase reduce high payroll costs. ATS TimeWork addresses complexities like globalization, payroll compliance and collective bargaining agreements. ATS Time and attendance gives businesses the competitive edge by; improve efficiency, profitability, and sustainability, and access to a library of on-the-go reporting capability.

Healthcare- ATS Time and Attendance for healthcare enables organizations to achieve greater efficiency within their operations; collaborate to improve outcomes; and integrate employee scheduling for a more sustainable, personalized and patient-centric system focused on value.

Oil & Gas- ATS industrial solution automates your shop floor and increase business efficiency regardless of your company’s size. The system allows business processes to be efficient, responding quickly and effectively to events and requests by making timely information available at anytime. The ability to plan, manage and optimize the productivity and performance of your workforce, while being responsive to the external regulatory environment, becomes increasingly vital to the success of the industrial machinery industry.

Retail- Our time tracking solution propels retail operations with a flexible and integrated approach to workforce management that drive the benefits that go right to the bottom line. The ATS solution applies intelligent data analytics so senior management can discover fresh insights, captured in real-time to improve operations, finance, administration, HR, budgeting, IT and business management functions.

Public Sector- ATS Time and Attendance solutions can help you support environmental initiatives; improve city performance, and data collection process – with best-in-class workforce planning. Our flexible software solutions can help government effectively manage employee time through the use of biometric time clocks – and significantly reduce fraud, waste, and abuse. Designed for all levels of government, ATS TimeWork suite of tailored time management solutions supports defense, civilian agencies, education, healthcare institutions; and municipal, regional, provincial and federal governments.

Whether you represent the public or private sector ATS Time and Attendance is designed for improving business performance. To outpace the competition, you need new ways to streamline costs, while increasing productivity, all while staying globally compliant. ATS industry-leading time and attendance solution makes it easier for you to simplify processes, and drive business productivity.

To learn more, go to our website.

Simplify Your Company Data Capture Process

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The Right Implementation Can Make All the Difference in the World

February 5th, 2014 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Collective Bargaining | Employee Time Attendance | Hosted Time and Attendance System | Time and Attendance Blog, Workforce Management Software | Workforce Management Software - (Comments Off on The Right Implementation Can Make All the Difference in the World)

When planned properly, a well implemented time and attendance can yield significant benefits for all stakeholders. Using ATS project methodology, it can be applied to large and medium-sized implementations. Depending on the size of the project, flowchart diagrams will point you to tools and templates that can be used at different phases and will help guide the roles that are required to perform activities. They all help to increase the consistency, timeframes, quality and success of your company’s time and attendance system.

Depending on the project size and scope ATS uses different deployment methodolies. Here are 5 steps that will benefit any organization considering deploying ATS time and attendance system:

Planning-Your company’s project manager and that of the vendor should work together to form the implementation team, and plan the project based on a methodology, including the scope of the project and available resources. A kickoff meeting should include all stakeholders with the purposing of reviewing the project plan and communicate the company objectives for the project.

System Configuration- The ATS Implementation Analyst provides the knowledge to implementation team in the design and database configuration. This will include, work-rule policies, collective bargaining agreements (CBA), and setting up the time and attendance system.

Harmonization-This phase involves integrating ATS Time and Attendance and Business Analytical Applications with the customer’s information needs and addresses customization requirements.

Training- ATS implementation team trains the Project Manager, HR, Payroll and other functional users on the new employee time management system.

Go-Live Support- ATS implementation team supports the customer in the use of the new time and attendance system. The implementation team provides real time support.

While this is not a comprehensive list, it provides a benchmark of what our customers can expect when deploying a time and attendance solutions with ATS.

To download a comprehensive implementation methodology, go to our website or call us at 1(866) 294.2467.

 

 

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Overtime Hours: Managing, Tracking and Paying

November 28th, 2011 | Posted by Apex Time Solutions in Benefit Accruals | Collective Bargaining | Labour cost | Labour Forecasting | Overtime | Premium pay - (0 Comments)

We came across a wonderful article by Frances Burks titled “Disadvantage of Overtime Work” and the issues associated with this phenomenon including: health problems, employee performance and the financial drawback.

In recent years, a wave of lawsuits have uncovered the fact that some employers did not have an effective tool to track and control employee overtime and other pay premiums. While there are some similarities with how overtime is paid in some jurisdictions, others vary significantly. These overtime class action suits demonstrate the need for workplace compliance. 

The easiest way to improve compliance and protect your organization from wage and hour lawsuits is to implement the ATS time and attendance system. The ATS time and attendance will help your organization:

  • Apply multijurisdictional pay and work policies
  • Track, manage and pay daily, weekly and bi-weekly overtime, premiums, call- ins and collective bargaining agreement overtime pay
  • Provide accurate audit trails and records of hours worked in the event of wage and hour disputes
  • Automate employee pay and rate changes mandated by complex collective bargaining agreements
  • Ensure compliance with provincial, federal and state regulations such as FMLA and FLSA
  • Generate reports for wage and hour claims, wrongful termination litigation, and other legal inquiries
  • Provide audit trails and accurate records of hours worked in the event of a wage and hour audit

 The ATS time and attendance system rules engine has enhanced flexibility that can determine specific types of pay. The system optimizes employee resources and reduces labour costs with employee scheduling, labour forecasting and benefit accruals. Our system helps you gain insight into the labour activities and achieve bottom-line results.

To learn more you can follow us on Twitter or download our brochures from our website. Our workforce management software user group is open for registration to current and potential customers.

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