Talent Shortage is Spreading

The shortage of skilled trade talent is spreading....

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The skills and talent shortage toolmakers have worried about for years is growing, and it's hitting more than tooling shops. It's also reaching the point that it is affecting the auto industry's production schedule.

"We received a call a couple of years ago from one of the automakers saying, 'We've got a problem in our industry involving talent. In fact, it's at the point where it's affecting [product] launch. We will have to delay and push back launches,'" Jay Baron, president and CEO of the Center for Automotive Research, said at the group's Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City.

Baron recalled that after that call, Ann Arbor, Mich.-based CAR contacted other automakers.

"Every other automaker we called said, 'Yes, they're right. This is a systemwide problem in the industry.'"

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HR Action to do List

There's a bunch of steps you need to do pre and post many HR actions:

This is my working list:

Hiring

 Post-verbal offer

• Offer letter
• Employment agreement
• Pre-employment BGC and drug screen authorization (If applicable)

 Post-receipt of offer docs

• send Employment doc stack
• Initiate BGC
• Follow up  Screens and BGC
• Create Employee File
• Create file checklist and stack for orientation
• Register in Finger check

Post New Employee Orientation

• complete and review finger check profile
• Set followup calendar for 30 day employee follow up, 60 day notice for 90 day review, 75 day follow up for benefits registration. 
• Verify employee login and out is registering in fingercheck
• Notify payroll with new employee registration form, DD form, and W-4
• Set up Email, if applicable
• Send out self enrollment for finger check
• Business Cards?
• Co credit Card?

Benefit Enrollment

• complete declination or enrollment form
• Notify Payroll of coming deduction
• set HSA deductions

• Send form to Blue Cross rep
• Notify HSA enrollment
• Update medical database with names
• Verify with Rep that all docs needed are in and cards are issued
• Verify with employee the both benefit and HSA debit cards have been received.

Voluntary Terminations

• Exit Interview
• return company property, cards, keys
• Remove access to cloud systems
• Set as inactive in finger check
• remove name from Time Clocks
• shut down email account
• Notify payroll of termination date.

Involuntary Terminations

• determine final pay calculations 
• Write Termination letter
• Present letter
• return company property, cards, keys
• Remove access to cloud systems
• Set as inactive in finger check
• remove name from Time Clocks
• shut down email account
• Notify payroll of termination date.
• Help them remove personal property, or inventory and mail.
• If separation pay eligible, write agreement

Workers comp claims

Post Workers Comp claims