HR Services

Recruiting

• Review and place job postings
• Screen applications, resumes, and references
• Perform employment verifications and prepare offer letters

Electronic Employee Onboarding*

• Conduct background check and arrange for drug testing
• Review new hire documents and act as a liaison between you and the new hire for proper completion of paperwork and benefits election

Employee Data*

• Enter new hire data and preform employee data maintenance

Specialized Training

• Provide training presentations on employment law, sexual harassment, discrimination, interviewing and performance management

Exit Interviews

• Create, review and update exit interview forms
• Assist remotely via email or phone

Unemployment Claims

• Respond to initial unemployment claims

*Must use one of Higginbotham’s preferred cloud-based HRIS systems.

Hiring

• Guide the development of job descriptions and new hire orientation

Employee Onboarding/Offboarding

• Review your processes and recommend improvements

Employee Relations

• Provide education and advise on corrective action (verbal and written), performance improvement plans and employee termination

Employee Handbook

• Assist with the development and customization of your employee handbook
• Help ensure compliance with federal and state regulations

Audits

• Provide I-9 and personnel file audit guidance

System Technology

• Help you identify the most appropriate payroll system to fulfill your goals and assist with implementation and monitoring

Remote Processing

• Prepare “pre-registers” for review and approval before submitting payroll
• Make payroll adjustments(pay rates, terminations, garnishments, taxes and benefit deductions) and perform supplemental pay runs

Employment Verifications

• Respond to wage statements and verifications of employment

Time and Attendance

• Assist managers and employees with resolving missed punches and other timekeeping issues
• Provide support for training managers and employees on time and attendance

Compliance

• Assist with Affordable Care Act (ACA)
• Perform new hire reporting

Reporting

• Run ad hoc payroll reports

*Must use one of Higginbotham’s preferred payroll platforms.

Insourcing

• Dedicated and experienced HR professional are matched and deployed to your location to provide a hands-on approach to your organization’s needs
• Allows your in-house staff to focus on your core business while we provide daily operations efficiencies right beside them

• Ensures that HR operations are well-tailored as REAL HR employees understand, in a direct and unique way, your organization’s tasks and issues

Systems Support

• Dedicated team of experts assigned to your account available for any HR or employee benefits-related questions
• Help with managing passwords resets and logins for payroll and time and attendance system
• Up-to-date employee data changes in payroll system
• Verifications of employment

Documentation assistance

• Administering COBRA notices
• Providing leave of absence and FLMA notices and tracking
• FCRA letters sent if candidates are not eligible for hire
• Implementing qualified medical and child support orders, as well as education orders

• Health
• Dental
• Optical
• Short/Long Term Disability
• AD&D
• Life Insurance
• Section 125 Plans
• Employee Assistance Programs
• 401(k) and 403(b) plans

The team at Higginbotham are consummate professionals, quick to act, resourceful, intelligent, and customer service driven. I found tremendous value in not having to bring in excess overhead that we didn’t need. At the same time, I realized that the talent and support provided by Higginbotham could not be replicated.

~VP of Operations