{"id":703,"date":"2009-04-22T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T15:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=703"},"modified":"2009-04-22T11:53:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T15:53:19","slug":"tip-of-the-week-staffing-strategies-for-tough-economic-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2009\/04\/tip-of-the-week-staffing-strategies-for-tough-economic-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip of the Week: Staffing Strategies for Tough Economic Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

In tough economic times, employers may need to consider various strategies for reducing payroll costs. In so doing, they need to\u00a0be aware of\u00a0many issues. Will our strategy be considered discrimination against a protected group? How will employees\u2019 exempt status be impacted by our strategy? Is severance pay a viable addendum to our chosen strategy? Do WARN or state \u201cmini-WARN\u201d laws apply to our strategy? How many options should we consider? What is the key to choosing the correct option?<\/span><\/p>\n

The answers to these questions and many more can be found in this month’s HRCast<\/a> a recording provided by our team of HR Pros and available exclusively on MyHRSupportCenter<\/a>. Learn what you need to know about these six key strategies:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. \n
    Decrease Wages<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Reduce Work Schedules<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Redistribute Work Loads<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    Offer Leaves of Absence<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  5. \n
    Provide Voluntary Separation Packages<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n
  6. \n
    Exercise a Phased Layoff<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Visit MyHRSupportCenter regularly not only for our HRCasts<\/a>, but also to get late-breaking compliance alerts, best practices to implement, and HR tools to use every day. If you’re not yet signed up or would like a free trial of MyHRSupportCenter<\/a>, contact Vision Payroll<\/a> today.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In tough economic times, employers may need to consider various strategies for reducing payroll costs. In so doing, they need to\u00a0be aware of\u00a0many issues. Will our strategy be considered discrimination against a protected group? How will employees\u2019 exempt status be impacted by our strategy? Is severance pay a viable addendum to our chosen strategy? Do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[410,53,28],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":966,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}