• Employee Compensation (wages & salaries)
• Recruiting, Selection, Placement of Employees
• HR Strategic Planning
• Benefit Administration
• HR Communications and Publications
• Labor Relations, Employee Relations and Dispute Resolution
• Management Practices, Policies and Procedures
• Training & Development
  

HR Investigations

Human Resources Applied Solutions will conduct customized fact finding investigations for individual litigants, employers, or attorneys on HR-related matters. We will provide a written report of findings, issues, and recommendations for use in assessing the merits of a particular case for the client’s use in agency or employer conciliation conferences, grievance adjustments, hearings, trials, or arbitrations. Our investigations include topics such as:

• Employee Complaints & Disputes
• Background and Reference Checking
• Inaccurate Performance Appraisals
• Overtime & hours of work and scheduling issues
• Pay and Benefits Issues
• Employment Discrimination Charges
• Unfair denial of employment or promotion
• Unfair Labor Practice Complaints
• Union and Non-Union grievances
• Unfair Work Assignment
• Wrongful Discipline & Discharge
  

HR Projects

HR Applied Solutions provides support to employers on a variety of HR projects for which the employer lacks staff, time, or expertise to do themselves.

Projects upon which we are able to assist include:

• Employee Handbook development and updates
• Supervisory Training in HR-related areas
• Assist in responding to government complaints from agencies such as the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Divison, National Labor Relations Board(NLRB), Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
• Analyze and evaluate organization-wide performance review results
• Counseling - performance, employment, attitude
• Conduct Wage and Salary Surveys
• Establish Employee Incentive and Suggestion Programs
• Conduct Training Needs Analysis
• Assist in reduction in force (RIF) planning and execution
• Conduct Job satisfaction, Pay and Benefit Satisfaction Surveys
• Review compliance requirements of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCCP) and various offices within the US Department of Labor
• Design and Install Employee Complaint and Dispute Resolution Program
• Mediation and Dispute resolution
• Employee/Government Agency/Union Complaint Analysis
• Facilitate HR Strategic Planning process
• HR Policy and Procedure rewrites
• HR Web Page design and update
• Perform Labor Union pre-negotiation, grievance and contract analysis
• Recruiting campaigns for managerial, technical, professional, supervisory and clerical personnel
• Install marginal employee program for poor attendance, performance, and attitude problems
• Resume Writing
• Systematize Employee Recruitment, Selection, Placement
• Employee Relocation
• Employee Outplacement
• Employee Attitude Surveys
• Training Needs Analysis
• Testing Programs
• Develop and revise job descriptions
• Employee Performance Appraisal program development

HR Research

HR Applied Solutions can assist clients in deciding and resolving the path forward on issues involving many HR topics. Our staff has access to a variety of HR professionals and research materials to facilitate our ability to deliver up-to-date literature reviews and studies on most HR issues. Examples of research projects include:

• Adequacy of HR Policies and Procedures
• HR Best Practice Studies for specific topics
• Compensation studies for examining the market rate for a job or group of jobs
• Pay Administration and Policy Issues
• Prevailing HR Practices in areas such as vacation & leave, social programs, employee conduct, etc.
• Job & Career Path assessment
• Studies of HR measures, metrics and experience statistics for use in comparing client operations
  

Temporary Fill-in for unavailable HR Staff

HR Applied Solutions will provide support to client organizations facing a staffing shortfall from the unforeseen loss of HR staff or the need for temporary staff because of up-turns in the demand for HR services. Our "fill-in" service can be provided on or off the client’s site, as needed.

Audits and Reviews

HR Applied Solutions can perform a variety of audits, reviews and inventories that will identify and document HR program elements, measure current results and draw comparisons against appropriate standards.

HR Applied Solutions monitors a vast array of HR-related statutes, regulations, and guidelines at the federal, state, and local levels. We see these requirements and guidelines to be valuable signposts from which an organization can re-examine and re-position its strategic focus and make needed adjustments to the company’s HR programs, policies, procedures, practices, and publications. A systematic comparison is made against governmental requirements. In addition to the compliance analysis benefit, this review identifies opportunities to enhance the client’s competitive advantage by improving the strategic human resources effectiveness in re-energizing the workforce, improving the organization’s ability to recruit and retain talent, and enhancing productivity and performance.


Services in this area include:

• Effectiveness Studies
       -Workforce Effectiveness
       -Company culture, values and climate studies
       -Administrative support effectiveness studies
       -Supervisory Effectiveness
       -Employee Communications & Publications
       -Adequacy of Social & Community Service Programs
       -HR communication programs adequacy studies
       -Recruiting and Retention assessment

• HR Systems Reviews
       -Compensation system assessment
       -Performance Management System   
       -Training & Employee Development
       -Labor and Employee Relations
       -Employee Discipline
       -Alternative Dispute Resolution

• HR Strategic Planning
      -HR Strategic Goals and Objectives development
      -Skills Inventory & Core Competency identification
      -Company Culture, Values and Climate assessment

• HR Administrative Compliance Audit and Review

Quick Scan™


The centerpiece of our audit and review service is our Quick Scan™ process for evaluation of a client’s HR policies, programs, procedures, practices, and publications against the vast complexity of federal, state, and local governmental requirements

The review provides:

• HR Legal Compliance Audit from an
  administrative view.

A Systematic comparison between an organization's current HR practice, including its strategic HR goals, policies, procedures, and publications against the requirements of governmental laws, guidance, and regulations.

Our analysis identifies:

• gaps between practice and requirements
• practical solutions to improve the management of human resources
• Strategies the client can apply to gain overall effectiveness and competitive advantage