In the past, the organization chart was simple: HR hired and fired employees, while payroll issued their checks and deducted their taxes.
Now, the rules have changed - and HR and payroll must work together seamlessly to handle the pressures of today’s complex employee benefit structures and new federal and state employment laws. From family and medical leave requests to flextime schedules, vacation and PTO balances to pension plan contributions, cafeteria plans to paycheck garnishments, things have gotten much more complicated.
You may not want to play nicely together – HR and payroll are often at logistical and philosophical odds – but if you don’t, you’re missing out on efficiencies that could both make your job easier and save your organization a tremendous amount of time and money, especially in today’s tough economy.
Order this practical 90-minute webinar recording, where you will learn:
- The new ways that HR and payroll concerns overlap-and what that means for your organization in practical and legal terms
- How payroll is affected by your employee benefits these days (and who’s responsible - HR or payroll - for tracking and managing your workers’ benefits data)
- What new federal and state employment laws have forced changes in the way payroll operates today
- How you can audit your current HR and payroll policies to maximize efficiencies without adding extra costs
- The steps you can take to mesh payroll, HR, and benefits data if you’ve outsourced part (or all) of these functions
- How to avoid the most common pitfalls facing employers who are trying to get HR and payroll to work together
This webinar was recorded on Friday, October 2, 2009
About Your Speaker:
Andrew Lopez, CPP, is the president and chief executive officer of Centerpointe Payroll Services, Inc., in Whittier, California. After 10 years of managing payroll departments at Paychex and ADP (two nationwide payroll processing services), Lopez started his own firm in 2006. Centerpointe Payroll Services provides the full range of payroll outsourcing reports and tasks for employers, from processing payroll checks and handling the payment of federal, state, and local taxes to preparing earnings registers and reports, and dealing with wage garnishments and levies. The firm is the only payroll company in southern California that teaches the Basic Payroll Tax seminars on behalf of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. A Certified Payroll Professional, Lopez earned his bachelor’s degree from Whittier College.
Approved for Recertification Credit
This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.
