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What's your company's PTO policy after maternity leave?
Does this change at all? I'm curious how others handle this or if it is left exactly the same depending on whether they decided to use PTO to extend their leave.
Trailing spaces in BerniePortal Reports
When our agency generates reports out of BerniePortal that contain a SSN or zip code the column contains trailing spaces at the end of the number. It causes issues when we try to copy paste the information into another spreadsheet or carrier website.
Would you rather manually run payroll OR discover the sales department has a “burn book” about all the other employees?
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Half Days on The PTO Calendar
When employees request half days, there should be a way for the PTO calendar to differentiate between half days and full days. Right now, you have to click on the "bubble" to see if an employee requested a full or half day, but it would be nice for the
What aspects of office culture are important to employees?
We are evaluating our company culture and would love to know what culture-related norms are seeing more value in other organizations. For example, are employees excited about lunch and learns, flexible hours, etc?
Would you rather accidentally send an employee an offboarding-related email before their manager has informed them they are terminated OR run into a terminated employee at the grocery store?
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Would you rather have all your employees request PTO for the same week OR manually track time and attendance for a month?
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Would you rather onboard your high school nemesis OR offboard your best friend?
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Would you rather accidentally share leadership’s compensation package with the entire company OR you must keep it confidential that your favorite coworker will be laid off?
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Would you rather sleep in the same hotel room as your direct report on a company trip OR accidentally tell the company that one of their colleagues is pregnant?
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Would you rather send a mass email to all clients with a typo spelling the company name incorrectly OR accidentally click on a phishing email?
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Would you rather hire someone with 20 years of experience in the field who can easily replace you OR remain an HR Party of One forever?
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Would you rather fire your “HR Party of ‘Two’”/ right hand man/woman OR be told you need to layoff 5 people at the company to save money?
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Would you rather sleep in and miss a meeting with your boss OR come in on time, but evidently hungover?
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Would you rather violate OSHA Regulation, costing the company $5,000 OR find out you’ve been miscalculating the entire company’s payroll for the past 3 months?
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Would you rather tell an employee they smell bad or that they need to stop picking their nose?
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Employee View of the Payroll Tab
With the updates to the Payroll Subgroups, I know a couple of our groups that will likely request that we hide the Pay Periods List from Employees. I reached out to support in advance of the question and it's not currently an option. Suggest a setting
Add Employer Name to Custom Report Fields
I've been testing pulling custom reports from the Service Team/Broker side, this enables us to pull detail from multiple clients to confirm setup information. It would be helpful to be able to include the group/account name in order to filter that report.
All Data Report or Custom Reporting
For payroll purposes it would be helpful for the items below to be included on the All Data Report or to be able to build a custom report to include. Expected Hours Per Week OT Exempt OT Factor Employment Status Hire Type
Employee field Hours Worked - As a Reportable field
If the Hours Worked field, which is required when entering a new hire was reportable (ie: a field included in the All Data/reporting fields), this would allow employers to run a report an capture staff who are FTEs, not true full time, but they could
Reports: Expected Hours Per Week
None of the reports have the ability to pull this information from the system. This needs to be at minimum on the All Data Report. It would be nice if it would also be in the customized report fields to choose from.
All Data Report
The All-Data Report should include a field for the hourly rate of pay for employees that are paid hourly instead of salaried. Right now it only shows the calculated annual salary based on the hourly rate times the number of hours worked per week, which
Standard Report to match Mass Update Template
We encourage our clients to send us their salary updates for mass update. I often pull a report and edit it to align with the upload template so they can review, edit & highlight their changes for me to finalize and upload. This is time consuming... it
Maximum HSA Contributions
Hi! It would be great if BerniePortal could reference the maximum HSA contributions to calculate how much an employee can contribute without overcontributing. This way, the combination of the employee and employer contributions could go up to the maximum,
I’m offering a competitive salary, good employee benefits and perks, but I still can’t seem to find a strong and qualified candidate for the role. What should I do?
Has anyone else experienced this, and what steps did you take? Please share your thoughts.
What's the story with Benefit Booklets?
From the Broker Service Team side (Benefits/Booklets) I can export a Benefit Booklet for any of our clients. I wasn't here when this feature was setup and, though there are improvements I'd love to see, I can edit it to easily create a resource for our
'Lock In' Previous Coverage Amount Elections
Currently, BerniePortal is designed so that during open enrollment, benefit types like Voluntary Life and Critical Illness reverts back to the minimum purchase increment. This confuses some users because they think that they are electing additional Voluntary
How can I use AI to support my HR role?
Looking for insights across the full spectrum of HR.
How do you work with a teammate with very low emotional intelligence?
Looking for tips or training related to this topic!
Preferred Sexual Harassment and Substance Abuse Training Resources
We are looking to update our training tools on the subjects of sexual harassment and substance abuse, and we're on a tight budget. What resources do you use and why do you recommend them?
Display PCP name on Election Sheet and Employee Record
Please include the Primary Care Physician (PCP) name on the election sheet. BerniePortal can already capture and store the PCP information. So, it would be helpful to display the PCP name on the election sheet as well as the Benefits tab of the Employee
Add a "Display Name" for the Employer Account Name
We've run into a challenge with companies that are DBAs. We need the Legal Name to populate to the tax documents while the companies portal remains branded under the name the employees are familiar with. Right now, there is only one option for "Employer
How to implement a compliance management system?
I'd love some insight on how we should go about checking in and monitoring our protocols.
More than 2 Direct Deposit Accounts
The ability to add more than 2 accounts on the BerniePortal Direct Deposit form would be great! Some employees have 3 to 4 accounts that they would like to deposit money into to take advantage of saving rates or other banking perks.
How to know if your work benefits package is a good one?
Looking for ways to be competitive and find out how we even compare. Thanks!
Part Time to Full Time Hire Dates - Need to Show Both
Currently, there is no way for the system to recognize an employee that is ineligible due to minimum hours, then becomes eligible. The system does not have a spot for Original Hire Date and Full Time Hire Date so the enrollment comes across with a sheet
Remove SELF as an option for the beneficiary on the EMPLOYEE
The number one correction we have to request during enrollments is for employees to name someone other than themselves as their beneficiary for the life insurance on the employee. The defaulted relationship is "Self", so some don't pay attention to what
What are the 4 pillars of a total rewards strategy?
I am creating a new benefits package and want to know what is most important for a robust, comprehensive, and attractive benefits package.
Approval Levels
Add the ability for a manager to request the termination of an employee and layers of approval for the request
How to use social media to recruit top talent for my company?
Looking for some best practices and things to avoid when using these tools. Thanks!
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