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Jessica M. Simmons, MBA, SHRM-SCP Joins CEOINS as VP, Senior Benefits Consultant
Jessica has 20-plus years of PEO and Agency experience having started in the PEO industry as a sales executive with the first publicly held PEO company in the late 90s. She is licensed in Life & Health and has earned her MBA from the University of South Florida, and her Bachelor of Business Administration from Stetson University. Jessica has delivered millions of dollars in insurance savings and increased benefit quality to PEO clients by offering creative innovative insurance and benefit administration solutions. She has long been on the front lines of health care reform while working on Wall Street in New York City with Frank Crystal, the second largest privately held insurance agency in the United States and with Aon …
Year End: Are You Ready?
‘Hard to believe, I know, but the end of the year is fast approaching! Preparing now can save you a lot of headaches as December 31 gets closer. Three of the top tasks to accomplish prior to the end of the year are discussed herein. Included with this month’s blog is a more comprehensive listing of year-end tasks, in the form of a Year-End Checklist to help you manage the items that can cause the most problems if left unattended. One of the biggest and more time-consuming of the year-end tasks is ensuring your employees’ address information of record is correct. By tackling this now, you can reduce or eliminate the number of W-2s that are returned to you due …
Janell Jurrens Joins CEOHR, Inc as Senior Tax Specialist
Janell Jurrens (JJ) began her PEO career in 1991 with Sarasota based Professional Employment Management (PEM); the platform company of what is now known as Oasis Outsourcing. Within her tenure she advanced through the “heart” of the company gaining strong understandings of payroll, accounting, employer-related requirements, workers’ compensation, medical and retirement benefits, along with state and federal compliance issues for both the PEO and the clients. She used those skills to become a Top Sales Producer and a Regional Client Service Manager. In 2002 Janell was licensed as a Community Association Manager (CAM) by the State of Florida, overseen by the Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR). While working with many Board of Directors, she was responsible for overseeing …
Eileen Glantz joins CEOHR as Senior Business Consultant
Eileen brings more than 20 years of experience in the PEO, Consumer Electronics and Retail Chain-Drug industries to her new position at CEOHR, Inc. She has managed revenues in excess of $300M, 100+ employees and 500+ locations. She is a driven, results-oriented, strategic thinking professional with a proven track record of leading teams, managing large-scale projects, reorganizing internal processes, streamlining operations and delivering superior client satisfaction. Prior to joining CEOHR, Eileen was with two retail chain-drug corporations, where she held several positions in the areas of multi-site operations, category management, buying, and training & development. She was part of a team that developed and executed a wide range of operational, training, merchandising and marketing programs for the retailer’s network of …
Leslie Sexton Is The Latest PayPro To Join CEOHR
We welcomed Leslie to our team on September 10, 2018 and are thrilled she agreed to join us! Leslie’s prior work included processing payroll for over 100 clients, which meant producing paychecks for over 3,000 employees! Leslie’s broad, multi-state payroll experience spans over a decade and includes an understanding of payroll laws in all 50 states. She is also certified, having earned her FPC (Fundamental Payroll Certification) through the American Payroll Association. Her past interdepartmental work with Human Resources, Accounting, Workers’ Compensation, and Customer Service means she will greatly complement our service model here at CEOHR. We look forward to getting to know Leslie and have no doubt that our clients will be well-served in her very capable hands!
Where Have All The Manners Gone?
We laugh at the workplace sarcasm found in cartoons, such as those created by Scott Adams of “Dilbert” fame, then perpetuate the sarcasm and uncouth behaviors by Sharing them on Facebook. We have seen t.v. shows, like The Office, with their parodies of life at work, including the exaggerated personalities we can all identify with: the bombastic, egotistical boss; the snarky busy body; the sarcastic sales dude; and the my-crisis-must-now-be-your-crisis co-worker. When the laughter ends and the t.v. is turned off, we sadly realize that these personalities and lack of good manners are what gobble up any sanity we have left when we are in our work environment and indeed make it an …
Time to Get Serious About I-9 Compliance: Part 2
Did you know that if ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) does an inspection of your I-9s, you can be penalized even if you do not have unauthorized aliens on your workforce? The penalties can come from errors on the I-9 forms. And if you lean towards apathy where I-9s are concerned, snap out of it before you are faced with one or more penalties that are regularly imposed on companies who are less than diligent in that area of their business. In case you did not read our HR blog from last month, the penalties can be per error, per employee! One news commentator said that your I-9 diligence should be equal to the diligence you have when dealing with …
Safety Tips Every Country Club Manager Should Know
This month I will talking about country club safety. In the country club industry a lot of things can go wrong as far as safety is concerned due to not having the proper training or just plain not knowing. If you take a few minutes to review these tips hopefully together we can minimize typical safety issues and reduce lost time accidents. Safe Lifting: The club industry has various lifting exposures including picking up bags of fertilizer, installing golf cart batteries, removing tree limbs off the fairway, unloading trucks, and carrying sacks of food and canned goods. All of these can be done safely without hurting yourself or others around you. So let’s get to the safe lifting basics; Load at the load and decide if …
2018 Florida Mega CPE Show Update
We had a great time at the Disney Contemporary Resort with CPA’s, CFO’s, and other executives this week at the FICPA’s MEGACPE show. The Mega CPE Conference is FICPA’s premier learning and networking experience. Both Kasey MacTavish, Director of Sales and Kelly Quickel, Inside Sales Leader attended the event for CEOHR, Inc. Thanks for all the referrals and the amazing hospitality shown to the CEOHR staff.
Time to Get Serious About I-9 Compliance: Part 1
The Trump Administration has given the directive to hire 10,000 new ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents to keep employers and their hiring practices in check, while penalizing, and possibly arresting, those who violate I-9 regulations. With that many new agents on board, it is easy to see how the plan to conduct up to 15,000 I-9 audits this year can be done. 1 In a year where worksite investigations have already surpassed the number of investigations for all of 2017, 2018 may just be the harbinger of the new status quo. Not only have investigations doubled, but arrests associated with those investigations have quadrupled! Most of those arrested were workers, but it is still not clear if any employers …
