Human Resources Services

Ignite Your Business Innovations Confidently by Tackling Your HR Challenges & Opportunities

We are here to enable economic growth and social progress through our positive impact and by developing effective HR strategies tailored to your business.

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Overview

VTS provides Human Resources (HR) Consulting Services that encompass a broad spectrum of HR disciplines designed to provide HR expertise that supports the success of your organization. We strive to satisfy your HR needs in a way that contributes to the current objectives of your organization by supporting rapid change, responding to market dynamics, increasing employee engagement and improving efficiency. We offer a personalized HR experience heavily focused on your business strategy and a complete HR service that enables you to focus on growth and opportunity. With our full-service HR solutions, you will get administrative relief, reduced liabilities, dedicated HR support, and increase your Return on Investment (ROI) while your employees get access to better benefits. Your dedicated HR professional acts as an extension of your team, understands legislative and regulatory guidelines that impact your industry, and helps to guide you through your HR challenges at every step of the way. VTS provides you with a team of HR specialists with industry expertise to give you valuable guidance on topics such as HR administration, best practices insights, mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, on-demand HR guidance, payroll and selecting your benefits offering. We also analyze your human capital management (HCM) processes, then recommend best practices for your industry that allow you to become more efficient & resilient. Additionally, we offer outsourcing services and co-employment solutions for those who want to take HR responsibilities off their plate. Our HR outsourcing services will help you take care of managing any unfamiliar and sensitive employee situations.

Building a healthy company culture not only affects every aspect of your operations, but is also critical to attracting top talent. We will help you define a company culture that lasts, based on your mission, vision and values. Additionally, as your company expands and your needs change, we will be here to help with a range of strategic services that will grow along with you including organizational design, leadership development and more. Our HR Consulting Services are designed to provide critical support and expert guidance while filling any short or long-term gaps within your organization’s HR functions.

Let our team of experts lend our HR expertise to your employment projects. We will remove the guesswork and alleviate you of the burden of HR responsibilities,thereby allowing your business’s resources and leadership to focus on the core business while you enjoy the peace of mind that comes from knowing your projects follow HR best practices and are aligned with relevant employment laws. Our services are highly customized and based on your specific needs. We realize that there is no one-size-fits-all solution, and we provide a range of services to ensure that we are able to help you with all of your HR-related concerns. Whether you need ongoing HR support, assistance with a specific project or issue, or strategic insight on how to make the most of your human capital investments, VTS is well-suited to provide exactly what you need without hidden fees or retainers.

Services

HR Consulting Services

Employee Relations

We can supplement or replace your employee relations function, serving as an escalation point for your HR team or as a resource for your employees to contact directly as needed. We provide your organization with useful and meaningful information on employee relations topics critical to employee job functions. Efforts will be made to explore practical strategies for motivating your employees, including how to use work to challenge them, and how to retain productive people. The efforts your organization makes to ensure a positive employee-employer relationship are absolutely critical to providing a positive employee experience and retaining top talent. Strong employee relations also contribute to high levels of employee productivity, morale, and overall company performance. We ensure your culture reflects your values to create a productive workplace and positive employee-employer relationships.

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HR Audits

HR Audits involve a review of your organization’s current policies and practices to identify gaps and design the most effective service strategy for your business. HR Audits can help you identify areas of strength, weaknesses, and where improvements may be needed. Let our team of experts help you with HR Audits, which include a comprehensive discussion and review of current practices, policies, compliance and procedures, as well as the identification and leveraging of opportunities for improvement. HR Audits can help you adopt best practices that set your organization apart from the competition, meet or exceed compliance standards as well as help your business thrive.

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Employee Handbook

An employee handbook is a fundamental requirement of a sound HR program. Let our team of experts help you develop an employee handbook that establishes the guidelines and expectations directing day-to-day work, collaboration, and contacts between the employee and the employer, that serve to minimize possible misunderstandings and potential conflicts. Additionally, we will ensure your policies are up-to-date with regulatory requirements and business processes to mitigate employer risk as well as reflect your organizational culture while meeting all federal, state, and local compliance standards.

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Workplace Investigations

VTS provides an unbiased, objective, independent third-party investigations into workplace accidents, incidents, and complaints in addition to hostile work environments, and allegations of illegal harassment and discrimination. The investigations are structured to avoid conflicts of interest and preserve privacy and work product privileges. Let our team of experts help you with your workplace investigations by using procedures for investigating, preventing, correcting discriminatory conduct, and staying compliant with the federal, state, local and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) guidelines.

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Compliance

Ensure compliance with state and federal employment laws and regulations. The regularly-changing employment laws and regulations can be challenging for any business to navigate. Let our team of experts help your organization successfully navigate, track, and maintain compliance with all employment regulations at the federal, state, and local levels.

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Compensation

Our team of experts can help you develop an effective and sustainable compensation strategy designed to attract and retain talent, motivate teams, and establish, as well as maintain, a competitive edge in the market. Let our team of experts help you develop an equitable and competitive compensation program that can motivate employees to achieve and maintain high performance and productivity levels as well as align with your organization’s talent acquisition and retention strategy.

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Compensation Consulting Services

Compensation Classification

Establishing an equitable and competitive consulting compensation program that can help motivate consultants to achieve and maintain high performance and productivity levels is an important retention strategy. Evaluating and redesigning compensation strategies is key to ensuring pay levels are competitive enough to attract and retain the talent your organization needs to be successful. Our team of experts use trending data resources, and internal knowledge of the marketplace, to provide sound recommendations to organizations with the information necessary to be confident that compensation plans are in line with those of your competitors. Let our team of experts help you with by providing a consulting compensation strategy that complies with the needs of your organization.

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Public Sector Compensation

Public sector agencies are moving to better align pay with performance and create organizational cultures that emphasize performance rather than tenure. The public sector agencies believe the long-standing principles of providing “equal pay for work of equal value” and “appropriate incentives and recognition for excellence in performance” are best met by agencies designing pay for performance systems to suit their individual missions, workforces, and circumstances with respect to uniform guidelines and principles. Austerity drives were leading governments to reduce operational expenditures, however, assessments conducted concluded the savings came at the cost of the loss of institutional knowledge if key contributors retire or resign, lost productivity while staff acquire new skills and learn new jobs, and decreases in performance among employees who become discouraged or dissatisfied. As such, agencies are moving to better align pay with performance. We have extensive experience working with the unique concerns of public sector compensation updates and redesign projects. Let our team of experts help you craft recommendations of compensation structures based on data from unions, and public sector market data that is specifically tailored to your business needs.

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Consulting Compensation

Our team of experts can develop effective and sustainable compensation & classification strategies, programs, policies, and approaches designed to attract and retain talent, motivate teams, maintain a competitive edge in your market and meet the unique needs of your business. Compensation classification analysis includes job analysis and descriptions for correct employee classifications (exempt vs non-exempt), pay differentials and overtime/shift premiums. Let our team of experts help you by providing an equitable and competitive Compensation Program that can help motivate employees to achieve and maintain high performance and productivity levels.

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Updating Compensation Plans

Ineffective and outdated compensation plans can cripple an organization’s ability to attract and keep top talent. Our team of experts can conduct an independent compensation plan review & update that highlights opportunities and realigns your offering to fit the current market in addition to your business strategy. Compensation plan reviews need to be conducted on a regular basis or tied to specific events. As a general rule, employers should examine compensation plans at least every 18 to 24 months. The review should determine whether the plan is still aligned with the organization’s needs and the labor market. The idea is to catch issues before they become large enough to affect employee engagement and the organization’s ability to attract and retain talent. Evaluating and redesigning compensation plans is key to ensuring pay levels are competitive enough to attract and retain the talent your organization needs to be successful. Implementation of consistent and appropriate practices are instrumental to the ability to consistently attract, motivate, and retain qualified employees, and to ensure organizations are aligned with appropriate rules, regulations, and laws. The success of our compensation program hinges on our ability to appropriately compete with external labor markets, recognize and reward exceptional performance, and maintain a shared sense of internal equity and fairness. Let our team of experts help you review your organization’s current compensation plan and design a personalized plan tailored to your exact needs.

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Compensation Plan Design

Employees are an organization’s most expensive asset. A competitive compensation plan is a critical part of employee retention efforts. You need to ensure that the plan you offer is sufficient to not only attract quality candidates but also keep employees in your organization for the long term. VTS provides effective and sustainable compensation plan and design services that establish and maintain your organization’s competitive edge in the market. We determine base pay and total compensation philosophy, as well as evaluate fairness, competitiveness and effectiveness of pay programs. We evaluate the design, level and number of positions, and communicate the value of total compensation. We survey employees on pay and reward program effectiveness. We establish base pay guidelines that make sense, attract talented people, and motivate, retain, and help control total labor cost. We use the right pay methods to drive desired results and behaviors that create incentive, bonus pay plans that help drive business strategy, and promotion and pay increase guidelines. Let our team of experts help you establish a compensation plan and design that sets fair base pay and incentive amounts that align with your business strategy, and pay practices to drive desired behaviors and business results that ensures internal and external fairness to attract and retain the right people.

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Job Descriptions

Our team of experts can help you create robust processes for developing job descriptions and navigating Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements to ensure that your organization is in compliance. The correct job description will allow your organization to properly set the objectives for roles and ensure that they correspond with the objectives and requirements of your organization. Let our team of experts go to work for you by developing a proper job description that reflects your organizations requirements, culture, brand and is in compliance with the law.

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Effective Pay Equity Assessment

Our team of experts can provide you with a structured compensation process, complete with a compensation philosophy and pay targets to ensure your pay practices stay competitive, and are aligned with relevant Equal Pay Act laws, best practices. The process used to assess pay equity include the following three workflows: data collection, running statistical models and identifying areas of risk as well as remediation. Let our team of experts provide you with an assessment of pay equity specifically aligned with your organization requirements & needs.

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HR Survey

At VTS, providing high-quality human resource survey information is an integral part of our business. We are experienced in every aspect of custom survey administration, from developing online data collection tools, targeted salary ranges, incentives and benefits data gathering, to promoting survey participation among target groups, cleaning data submissions, and explaining the results. Let our team of experts partner with you to create the survey just right for your organization’s needs and gain competitive advantages.

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Employee Relations Consulting Services

Termination

Proper communication at the time of termination is very important, whether your reasons for terminating an employee are based on work performance, due to an economic layoff, or for another reason, following the proper termination procedures goes a long way in avoiding legal issues. Avoid firing someone on the spot, and use severance and release agreements to limit your liability & document every step of the process in detail. Let our team of experts help you regarding termination decisions, best practices to limit legal vulnerability, and offer separation toolkits that include separation letter templates, guides, release of claims, and severance agreements that meets your strategic goals, business needs and objectives.

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Employee Complaints

Our team of experts can provide a third-party, unbiased, professional investigation of all reported claims of sexual harassment, hostile work environments, retaliation complaints, and/or discrimination within your organization. We will conduct the full investigation, document the results, and offer guidance and counseling to all affected parties. We also help employers with policies and training that set behavioral expectations, foster a culture of respect, and reduce employer risk and liability.

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Exit Interviews

Exit interviews can provide critical intelligence as to why employees are leaving your organization while helping shape retention strategies. Additionally, exit interviews are important because they offer a deeper look at your workplace culture, day-to-day processes, management solutions, and employee morale. This insight allows for the assessment of the overall employee experience within your organization and the identification of opportunities to improve retention and engagement. Let our team of experts help you develop an exit interview program for your business, execute interviews on your behalf, and provide data and reporting tied to information acquired during the exit interview.

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Performance management (PM)

VTS provides performance management services focused on developing, assessing & measuring the performance of an organization, department, employee, or the processes in place to manage particular tasks. Performance management (PM) is the process of ensuring that a set of activities and outputs meets an organization’s goals in an effective and efficient manner. Performance management programs and processes provide employees with formalized feedback, set performance standards, and inform employee growth and compensation decisions. Performance evaluation systems set clear expectations for employees and enhance their performance. We develop core competencies that link to performance and conduct performance evaluation training for managers and employees so that appraisals and evaluations are fairly and accurately written and executed. Additionally, we assist companies in the management of performance issues and can develop performance improvement plans and disciplinary procedures. Let our team of experts help you design, enhance, and/or roll out an effective performance management program that drives behavioral change and increased performance aligned with overall company objectives, goals, and priorities.

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Employee Dispute Resolution (EDR)

VTS provides organizations with HR best practices and a broad range of workplace dispute resolution tools that ensure solutions to workplace conflict are consistent with the human resource policies and related laws. The dispute resolution process provides opportunities for the exchange of information between the concerned employee and members of management. We provide impartial Employee Dispute Resolution (EDR) services, to assist in the resolution of workplace disputes, that are fair, orderly, prompt resolution of disagreements, and reduce employer risk.

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Hiring & Onboarding

Our team of experts, can develop and roll out a process that properly welcomes, integrates, educates, and assimilates each new hire into the organization while collecting all critical new hire documentation. We offer legally compliant hiring practices and onboarding procedures along with toolkits that include offer letter templates, required notices, new hire paperwork, and our proprietary onboarding guide. Let our team of experts help you create a seamless hiring process, starting with the application process to the acceptance letter, that ensures applicants feel informed and acknowledged throughout the entire process. Additionally, we ensure onboarding of new employees can quickly and easily be completed using the onboarding process.

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HR Services Outsourcing

HR Self-Service

HR self-service, or employee self-service (ESS), is a HR solution that allows employees to access their own documents and details through a single gateway. ESS transactions include employee personal data and updates, employee onboarding, PTO requests, benefits enrollment and updates, employee training/e-learning, performance management, time and attendance, and access to handbooks, policies, and other organizational information as well as wellness resources. ESS simplifies the most basic and time-consuming HR tasks, providing numerous benefits for both employees and managers. Consolidating information into one user-friendly interface promotes efficiency and helps employees align with organization-wide goals. Productivity improves as employees spend less time looking for the information they need. Furthermore, employee satisfaction increases due to coordination and communication across the organization. ESS can reduce the time HR professionals spend on administrative tasks, freeing them to add more value to the organization by participating in more strategic planning. The efficiency of ESS can be advantageous for HR departments and the business as a whole, as well as allocate resources more efficiently, and provide cost savings, 24/7 access, save labor hours, and faster, more efficient service.

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HR Expertise

Our Human Resources team of experts have extensive experience and offer a wide range of human resources services, from total rewards to talent management, hiring, training, managing, and career transitions, we can help your organization navigate every area of today’s increasingly complex Human Resources landscape. Whether you are hiring new talent, developing leaders, or managing HR compliance issues, we will help you pair everyday efficiencies with long-term strategies by aligning HR tactics and strategies with your organization-wide objectives. For organizations with non-existing or limited HR resources, we are able to manage and carry out all phases of a project’s work and act as your HR department. Other organizations may have sufficient internal resources, but lack the necessary expertise for a particular business initiative. We assist clients in whatever capacity best meets their needs and can do so on a project, hourly or retainer basis. Our team of experts will work closely with your organization’s internal team to understand your business requirements, business objectives and unique culture.

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Compliance

HR compliance processes help organizations achieve their objectives, goals and vision by ensuring that benefits, retirement, and perquisite programs are motivating the necessary actions and behaviors. HR compliance audits are an excellent way to discover and mitigate compliance exposures and protect your business. Our team of experts can help you conduct an independent compliance audit of your organization’s personnel documentation, benefits administration, record keeping and human resources practices, as well as audit for state, local and federal compliance, efficiencies, and best practices.

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HR Outsourcing

HR outsourcing provides you with the benefits of a HR professional without the overhead costs of a full-time employee. VTS provides a complete HR outsourcing service that enables you to focus on growth and opportunity. With our full-service HR solution, you will get administrative relief, reduced liabilities and dedicated HR support, while your employees get access to better benefits. Our outsourced HR services are ideal and affordable. We coach and train your management team to handle day-to-day HR activities. Our HR experts take care of the HR programs that will allow you to compete on the market while you focus on the strategic needs of the organization and growing your business. The three service levels listed below and are offered individually on a project basis or at a reduced rate through our HR retained services program.

Benefits of using our retained HR services

  • Unlimited phone access
  • Assigned senior level HR consultant who understands your business
  • Access to our password protected HR library
  • HR Start-up Kit included for new firms
  • On-site and telephonic assistance
  • Local consultants who understand the market
  • Significant savings on our public and in-house training programs
  • Reduced fees for professional HR services
  • Budgeted fees that make it easy and affordable to pick up the phone before the fire starts

Payroll Services

Benefits Administration Outsourcing

A comprehensive Benefits Administration Outsourcing program allows your business to become more efficient. We can help you with the complex administrative activities that involve significant compliance requirements, while your teams focuses on strategic business initiatives. The primary decision drivers for outsourcing benefits administration are to reduce cost and have access to industry expertise. Our team of experts coordinates with your insurance, payroll, and auxiliary benefits providers to process enrollments, changes, terminations, COBRA Administration, HSA/FSA management, claims resolution, and the annual benefits renewal. We inform employees on when they are eligible for benefits, train them on how the plans work, and answer any questions they have along the way. Benefits administration does not have to be difficult. In fact, it should make the process of establishing, maintaining and managing employee benefits easier. Using a company that is experienced in benefits administration can help you streamline and improve your benefits process. A great employee benefits administration portal can help you streamline your processes and find ways to reduce premiums for insurance policies and other programs. Let our team of experts help you manage benefits for your organization and provide the flexibility to customize benefit programs to fit your unique needs and business objectives.

Payroll Administration Outsourcing

VTS Payroll Administration Outsourcing provides you with flexible end-to-end payroll outsourcing services to effectively and efficiently handle the volume and scope of the needs of your organization to optimize the payroll function, mitigate payroll and tax-related risk, and give you more time to focus on strategic planning and growing your business. Payroll is calculated correctly and on time. In addition to managing payroll taxes, we can also ensure employee payments, contributions and wage garnishments are handled appropriately. Our team of experts can gather, process, and audit payroll information for each paycheck, oversee payroll management to ensure that tasks such as deductions, time reporting, direct deposit and more are handled smoothly, timely, accurately and efficiently. Your staff members will be paid accurately and in a timely manner every time. When payroll is complete, we will reconcile each report to guarantee accuracy. You will also get smartphone-enabled access to payroll reporting when required, as having access to payroll reporting is essential. Our outsourcing services allow you to simplify your payroll process and have the knowledge that your taxes are being handled accurately and on time. Let our team of experts help you by outsourcing Payroll Administration to a dedicated, highly skilled team of professionals; a sound investment that saves money, reduces the administrative burden and increases your organization’s long-term efficiency.

Leave Administration Outsourcing

VTS can help you with your leave of absence administration by processing leave requests accurately and with timely determinations while strictly adhering to mandated timelines to ensure an efficient process that reduces risk, prevents leave abuse, and allows your employees to take time off of work without the risk of job loss. Striking the balance between a happy team and a well-run business can be complicated at times, however, a good leave of absence management policy ensures your business runs smoothly while giving your employees a chance to recharge, recover, handle pregnancy, bond with a child, or attend to a family member with medical conditions. This will also bring the added benefit of having your employees return to work in a more optimal and timely manner. We help you ensure accurate and effective outsourcing, planning, implementing and consistent execution of leave policies & processes, while keeping up and complying with changing regulations. Additionally, our compliance experts provide leave of absence legislation updates, keeping you on top of developments impacting employers and employees. Partnering with us means you can spend less time tracking leaves and legislation and rest assured knowing that details are covered and even the most complex regulations and compliance updates are tracked. We help you manage leave-related requests and meet required deadlines, as well as with tracking and reporting leave, ensuring consistency of process and regulatory compliance, facilitating communication between your organization and your employees on leave, and improving customer service, accuracy and efficiency in managing leave.

Leave Administration Outsourcing can also minimize or remove the personal or emotional aspect of direct discussions between employees and management about sensitive health issues. Sometimes managers become overly involved in the process, so dealing with a neutral third party can put both your organization and your employee more at ease and enhance the overall experience. Outsourcing can also increase privacy by helping to shield your organization from the details surrounding an employee’s leave and prevent access to confidential employee medical records.  As such, VTS ensures a smooth leave administration process, compliance with all legal obligations and provides your organization with frequent, effective, timely, and clear communication.

With VTS Leave Administration Outsourcing, you will have access to a dedicated leave expert who has specialized knowledge as well as experience with compliance, leave administration, and the complexities that come along with it, and will monitor the length of your employees’ leave and the status of their return to work, while working directly with your employees, managers, leadership and human resource department. Our team of experts can help you navigate multiple state and federal laws and regulations to keep you in compliance in every state where you have employees, helping you keep up with your organizational responsibilities to your employees, and unburdening your organization from leave administration while you focus on growing your business. Let our team of experts manage the complexities of compliance, reduce your organizational risk, and ensure your valued employees are back on the team as soon as possible.

 

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In order to determine the appropriate reasonable accommodation, employers and employees must engage in an interactive process, which requires communication and good-faith exploration of possible accommodations. As such we provide a clear road map and reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). After an employee requests an accommodation, we engage in good faith and flexible dialogue that addresses the employee’s specific medical limitation, request, job position, and work environment, among other factors, on behalf of your organization. When necessary, we work with employees who require an ADA certified accommodation, gather information according to the ADA certification from the employee and provide recommendations to the employer regarding reasonable accommodations. Following the employer’s review and decision, VTS will communicate the outcome of the ADA interactive process to the employee.

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Return to Work (RTW) Program

VTS provides a Return-To-Work (RTW) program that is proactive and designed to help your employees remain a productive member of your workforce without impeding their need for LOA. Having an effective RTW program helps employers better control the total impact and costs of workers being away from the job, reduce costs, facilitate employee need for LOA, and increase the potential for a positive resolution & experience. We inform employees when their leave is ending and inform them of any fitness for duty requirements that need to be met prior to their RTW. We determine whether any potential accommodations need to be implemented upon the employee’s return. As a neutral third party, we work with you as a trusted extension of your team. We treat your employees and their families with respect, compassion and expertise so that our work is an exceptional reflection of you and your organization. We are there for your employees through hard times and care for them as deeply as you do. We are able to protect your employees’ privacy and mitigate risk for your organization.

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Compliance & LOA Approval/Monitoring

Our team of experts verifies that certifications have the necessary information for a qualifying LOA situation, and the internal approval process has been completed, which includes steps to formally get the LOA approved by different levels of leadership in your organization.

We provide appropriate communications regarding LOA benefits impacts, time tracking, final status decisions and other details. VTS monitors and manages expirations, extensions, and the need for recertifications to ensure a smooth and legally compliant leave process. We keep your business thriving by maintaining a healthy workforce & ensuring all compliance and regulation requirements are appropriately complied with.

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Communication & Qualification

Our team of experts processes the leave of absence (LOA) requests by determining which laws do or do not apply to a given LOA situation and makes sure that the requirements of all applicable laws concerning a given LOA situation are complied with. We verify eligibility, send out notifications of rights, status, legal requirements and decision processes to the employer and the employee, and ensure proper certifications are completed within legally mandated timeframes. LOA decisions would be communicated directly to the employees requesting LOA. We help your employees navigate the LOA process with clear, simple steps, a helpful attitude and a smooth, stress-free process.

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HR Audits

Record Keeping

VTS’s team of specialists conduct an audit of your document retention practices to ensure your I-9 forms are retained in accordance with relevant regulations.

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Accuracy

VTS ensures your I-9 forms are properly completed, including all required fields having acceptable entries, and that necessary form corrections are consistent with related best practices and requirements.

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Hiring

VTS performs a holistic review of current hiring and on-boarding practices to ensure timely completion of I-9 procedures and compliance with non-discrimination regulations.

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HR Compliance & Best Practices (CBP) Audits

HR compliance & best practices (CBP) audits can provide you with the insight you need to ensure your human resources functions are complete, efficient, and meeting or exceeding compliance standards. HR CBP audits involve a review of current policies and practices to identify gaps and design the most effective service strategy for the business. VTS conducts HR CBP audits as a crucial first step when engagement begins with a new client. The purpose of the HR audits is to identify areas of strength, weaknesses and where improvements may be needed. The information gathered from the audit helps determine whether current HR processes comply with state, local and federal regulations and support business goals. Additionally, the information you learn from such a review can identify gaps and areas for improvement related to your processes, policies, and overall HR practices. Let our team of experts help you with one of three tiers of audit processes we offer, each with varying depth and scope, and provide you with recommendation reports, including an evaluation of the current state of the HR functions along with recommendations for improvements.

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Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) audits

To ensure your organization is complying with current and pending Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) exempt status regulations, VTS conducts thorough reviews of job duties to determine and validate Department of Labor (DOL) exempt statuses. The FLSA Audit Findings and Recommendation Report includes identification of jobs that may need to be reclassified and recommendations for addressing them, including redefining duties, adjusting salary, and highlighting how these changes may impact employee pay, internal equity, timekeeping, and employee perceptions. Let our team of experts help you with FLSA audits, HR functions, tracking changes to legislation, creating company policies to reflect new regulations, and ensuring that you are in compliance with changing employment law requirements.

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Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) due diligence audits

In today’s business climate, mergers and acquisitions are often essential in promoting growth, cutting costs, increasing profits and expanding services. Before a merger or acquisition takes place, due diligence must be exercised to ensure that you understand your target company’s current status and standing in detail as well as any potential risks and impacts. VTS provides mergers and acquisitions due diligence services that arm your organization with the information you need for a successful transaction or merger. Our team of experts will review the employment practices, company culture, pension plans, employee benefits and management structure of the target company to ensure you fully understand the risks and rewards of the transaction, while also providing you with recommendations for improvements and reconciliation of differences. Additionally, we uncover liability issues, compliance gaps, compatibility concerns, and potential negative impacts. Audit findings provide recommendations for addressing actual and potential risks and assist with ensuring a smooth transition that reduces risk, and proactively resolves issues and unanticipated surprises.

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Pay Equity Audits

Comply with pay equity laws while advancing your diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. VTS experienced compensation specialists provide a thorough analysis of your pay practices and policies, internal pay equity, and compensation strategy to uncover gaps that could put your organization at risk. Results are provided in a comprehensive report with findings and recommendations for implementation.

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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important elements in any business environment. Our DEI assessment includes first understanding your organization’s values and goals, then conducting interviews and reviewing policies and procedures to understand your current state of operations. Gaps and common themes are identified and prioritized. Results are provided in a report that includes findings, recommendations, practical tools, and resources to implement an action plan.

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Compliance Audits

Compliance audits are comprehensive, third-party examinations of compliance with federal, state, local and regional employment laws. Our audits view your employment policies, HR practices, and key processes through a detailed compliance lens. Results are provided in a comprehensive HR Compliance Findings + Recommendations Report that clearly identifies compliance and best practices priorities across 18 categories.

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