The finalists for the 2007 People Do Matter Awards have been selected!
Come celebrate the companies in Southwestern PA who have developed the most creative strategies in the following three areas:
Learning and Development:
Alpern Rosenthal
Educational Management Corporation
Lanxess
People:
CaliforniaUniversity of Pennsylvania's Career Services Office
MARC USA
MAYA Design
Work Structures and Processes:
CarnegieMellonUniversity
Eat 'n Park Hospitality Group
The winner of each category will be announced at this prestigious awards ceremony on April 11, 2007, at The Sheraton Station Square!
Join us at 5:30 p.m. for a fabulous evening of networking and celebration as we welcome the Honorable Emily DeRocco, Assistant Secretary to the U.S. Department of Labor, as our keynote speaker!
Submitted by Tina Lynch SPHR, President of the PHRA, Human Resources Director, Goodwill Industries of Pittsburgh
As an enhancement to our PTO Policy an employee is able to give or receive donated PTO. This plan allows employees with banked PTO to donate all or a portion of it to another employee who is in need due to a serious illness or chronic health condition. Here's how it works:
It is determined that Employee A is eligible to receive donated PTO (by the Director of Human Resources). Employee B, who has accrued PTO decides to donate PTO days to Employee A. To determine the worth of the donated PTO to Employee A, we would use the following calculation:
First convert the donated days into hours. Take those hours times the hourly wage of the donor or Employee B to arrive at the gross dollar value of the donated hours. Then divide the gross dollar value by the hourly rate of Employee A, to arrive at the total number of hours to be donated to Employee A. These hours would then be paid to Employee A and deducted from Employee B's PTO Bank. If more than one employee chooses to donate PTO, the same calculation is done for each donor employee and converted to PTO hours for the receiving employee. However, the maximum amount of donated PTO an employee can accept cannot exceed the amount needed to cover them during their medical leave. All unused donated PTO hours would be returned to the "last" donor(s). In other words, an employee cannot bank donated PTO. The responsibility for payroll taxes will fall with the employee receiving the donated PTO as with any other income.
Submitted by Laura Buck, Vice President of Human Resources, Mailing Services of Pittsburgh
At MSP, we hold quarterly Update Meetings, which are essentially a state of the union of the organization. We establish these as mandatory meetings that all employees are required to attend, scheduling such to be all inclusive - reaching our second and third shifts as well as first. Our President provides an overview of the organization, via a PowerPoint presentation that I compile for him with input from various department heads. We cover everything from financial performance, to key initiatives within the various departments, to benefits, policies, etc. The results are very favorable - increasing communication overall throughout the company, allowing all the employees to feel educated about MSP, as well as providing "face time" with the President and myself to simply ask questions and receive answers. This is particularly important to our second and third shifts which do not get as frequent of an opportunity to just talk with leaders of the organization. This also provides a perfect opportunity for our leadership to focus employee efforts on new initiatives.
