Human Resources Corner

BOB BETHEL

VP of HR & Learning Services

The Employers’ Association is here to help with your HR Needs

Last year The Employers’ Association (EA) started a partnership with the Ohio Green Industry Association (OGIA) to provide human resource related services to the membership of the OGIA. The EA is an organization located in Northwest Ohio that has been providing HR services to its member companies since 1950 and, through this partnership, we can provide many of those services to members of the OGIA. Most of these services are included as part of your membership in the OGIA. The EA is staffed by experienced HR professionals that can meet your HR needs quickly and thoroughly.

Included in those services is access to our HR Hotline, which can be used to ask questions about HR best practices, sample policies, employee disciplinary issues, compensation, benefits, job descriptions, incentives, recordkeeping requirements, performance appraisals, and any other HR issues with which you are faced on a daily basis. We know that many members of the OGIA may not have a person dedicated to handling HR challenges, but those duties are often delegated to an accountant, an office manager, an operations manager, or even an owner. Even if you have an HR professional on staff, you will have a ready resource that you can call during the hours of 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. that will provide an answer right away and always within 24 hours. Is your handbook outdated? The EA provides a handbook template suitable for customizing by OGIA members. Updating or drafting a complete handbook for members is available at an extra cost.

To access these services, you can call the EA at (419) 893-3000 or submit a question through the following link: https://theea.org/hr-answers-support/hr-hotlinequestion Just identify yourself as a member of the OGIA when calling or submitting a question or request. For more information about the EA, visit our website at https://theea.org.

We help you do your job even better. We empower excellence. You are constantly busy and expected to know everything. When you need help answering the tough questions or tackling time-consuming projects, The Employers’ Association has you covered. Our experts in Human Resource Solutions and Professional Training can meet your needs today. We look forward to partnering with you.

The EA will also provide three HR related webinars per year to OGIA members. This year the scheduled webinars will include “HR Hot Topics for 2023” on January 24; Effective Communication on February 7; and “Harassment Awareness and Prevention for Supervisors” on February 28. Should you want or need to provide training to a group of your supervisors, we can arrange to provide that training at a reasonable cost to you.

The EA also provides a monthly newsletter to members of the OGIA that includes the latest updates on employment law, safety, training, and leadership development. In addition, we provide HR Hot Topic emails with the latest employment law or other HR hot topic updates.

Do you need updated copies of employment law posters at your facility? You can order those posters and enroll in an update service that ensures that you will always have the most up to date posters.