Payroll & HR Solutions

For Over 20 Employees

As your company grows, the needs of your employees will increase as they navigate their career path. so how you communicate with them will need to evolve as well. We refer to this changing dynamic as the Employee Lifecycle. Managing this process has become one of the most pressing needs and vital gauges to the health of your organization. Yet it is often the most overlooked and the last to be addressed.

Efficient Employee Lifecycle Management

Commonwealth Payroll & HR was built to manage this process for small to mid-sized businesses. To Manage your company's strategic HR functions, help you Automate the paper-intensive aspects of the Employee Lifecycle, and Mitigate the legal and regulatory risk that is associated with running a business.

Let our HR Account Managers take an active role in the implementation, execution, or evolution of your company's scalable HR infrastructure and be a resource in helping manage your Employee Lifecycle.

Eliminate costly and inefficient paper processes. Enforce consistency in timekeeping, recordkeeping and documentation while decreasing the amount of time spent collaborating on behalf of your employees.

The needs of your employees increase as they navigate their career path, and how you communicate with them will change as well. We refer to this as the Employee Lifecycle, and it has become one of the most pressing and vital gauges to the health of your organization. Yet it is often the most overlooked and the last to be addressed.

Ensure compliance with Federal and State employment regulation. Gain access to employment law attorneys to help manage your "sticky situations" while taking proactive steps to prevent those situations in the first place.

By assisting with these employment-related challenges in a fiscally prudent, per employee-per month basis, we create opportunities for your business to focus on its core competencies.

Click below on any phase of the Employee Lifecycle to see how we help our clients manage, automate and mitigate it.

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Applicant

Manage

Our HR Account Management team can aid you in crafting custom interview processes; identify and help recruit top performers; and give you a competitive edge over your competition by reducing turnover while driving efficiencies in your search process.

Automate

An embedded Applicant Tracking System within eStratEx enables you and your search partners to post applications on job boards, auto-screen candidates via our integrated survey tool, manage the interview process, and generate offer and rejection letters all without using any paper.

Mitigate

During the applicant phase, ensure labor law compliance with mandates such as the EEOC and Affirmative Action. Teach your staff what they can and cannot say to an applicant. Enjoy the benefit of an embedded background, skills and reference check system while we manage all components of the FCRA.
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New Hire

Manage

Establish consistent logical new hire processes. Complete new hire paperwork, before work has begun and after your screening has been completed to make the most of the employee's orientation and introduction into your company.

Automate

Allow your new hire to complete his/her new hire paperwork step-by-step, including employee handbook receipt, acknowledgement of documents such as non-competes, non-disclosure and commission plans, asset handling, W4 and I9 completion, benefit elections and enrollment options - all without paper!

Mitigate

Ensure that all forms have been completed properly and consistently, and that proper identity verification and right-to-work has been established before work begins. Leverage robust e-signature technology to retain signatures for proof of all elections and consents.
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Employee Management

Manage

Whether you are an 80 person service company without a dedicated HR manager or a 2,500 person hospitality group with a three person HR department, our HR Account Management team can manage the function for you or become an extension of your existing team.

Automate

eStratEx is not only an HR database but a comprehensive paperless communication system that allows for workflow in every process within the Employee Lifecycle. Allowing stakeholders "to work as they think", eStratEx becomes the main conduit for employment communication and HR process within your organization.

Mitigate

The rules of engagement are ever-changing and creating continued challenges in managing the Employee Lifecycle. We work with your management team to ensure 100% compliance to all regulations which govern the Employee Lifecycle and we provide access to key local labor law firms to assist you in the management any "sticky" situations
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Payroll

Manage

Ensure all employee/salary changes have been approved by supervisors/ reviewers before reaching the payroll process while creating proper access to payroll on a "need to know" basis for every payroll cycle, thereby separating management payroll from hourly employees or by site locations.

Automate

Port all time away from work, timesheet and expense entries directly from the employees into payroll with proper approvals but without onerous synchronization, double data entry or off-line processes. Manage time entries and schedules within the convenience the same employee self-service portal used enterprise-wide.

Mitigate

Ensure all payroll is entered correctly and look for exceptions/variations from previous weeks by side-by-side preprocess comparison and threshold setting. Smoothly exchange payroll results with finance by creating a customized GL file entry for the most widely-used accounting systems.
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Performance & Compensation

Manage

Refine and create processes around performance reviews. We can help you craft a salary-banded compensation plan, a performance-based pay system or salary review program that is steeped in metric-driven components.

Automate

Leverage eStratEx's survey engine to perform web-based 360 degree performance reviews in a system of metric tracking and compensation planning. Automatically link the review with an increase in compensation and the supporting proof of that achievement.

Mitigate

Help ensure compliance in all aspects of your performance and compensation policies. Whether it is exempt vs. non-exempt status, wage and hour law or employee/independent contractor evaluation, we have you covered.
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Discipline & Termination

Manage

Ensure employee discipline and termination requests completed on time with full documentation across the enterprise or by department/location leveraging input of all stakeholders, witnesses and parties involved.

Automate

Complete and submit termination requests via workflow consistently, objectively and with full documentation allowing your company to move quickly and with confidence.

Mitigate

Consistently apply and document all steps leading to, to support proof of and as part of an employee Termination to make your records litigation ready and your case defensible.
 

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