Human Resources/Expert Profile

Expertise

Can answer questions in areas of wage and hour, OT, Fair labor standards, FMLA, COBRA, Recruiting, Interviewing techniques, employee manuals, HRIS rollout, Employee Leasing or Staffing company cost analysis, bacon, eggs, and more. Essentially a well rounded HR generalist who operates Harvis, Inc., a human resource consulting and service business based in Northeastern Pennsylvania "NEPA". http://www.harvis.org

Experience in the area

At Harvis, Inc., we provide Human Resource products, services and advice to small businesses that may not have the time or resources to hire a full time HR department. For larger companies with HR managers in place, we compliment their expertise to help with time consuming or time sensitive projects like updating policy manuals, screening and interviewing and more. We make workplaces better by becoming that 1/2 person they need to help handle HR responsibilities on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Formerly responsible for all Human Resource activity for a staffing agency with 2,500 annual employees as well as an employee leasing / PEO business with 1,500 annual employees. Designed and implemented the HR structure to support hundreds of clients in excess of $ 500 million in payroll volume over career in Human Resources.

Organizations

* Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry - current member and former co-chairperson for the HR Taskforce; * Tri-County Personnel Association (oldest continuous operating "HR" association in the nation (we think)); * President 2010-11 Business Association of the Greater Shickshinny Area - Shickshinny PA

Publications

PLEASE - Foreign and domestic college students - PLEASE - DO NOT ASK me to answer your homework questions. Those questions are easily identified as such and will be rejected.

Education/Credentials

Bloomsburg State University - 1993 BS Marketing, Bloomsburg Pennsylvania and Luzerne County Community College - 1991 Business Administration, Nanticoke Pennsylvania

Awards and Honors

* Better than average - 20/10 vision * Bestowed with an occasional "Thank You" from clients and their employees.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know:

Fair dealings with employees and doing the "right thing" can substantially lower an employer's risk of workplace legal and compliance lawsuits - even if they ARE at fault.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject

HARVIS, INC. offers our expertise "Free" on this site because this approach is a part of our business strategy. You ask specific questions, we answer them with more than a "yes" , "no", or some other unhelpful retort. We get higher rankings online by posting answers to questions so other people choose to visit us at http://WWW.HARVIS.ORG and possibly conduct some paying business.