In the Holiday Rush, Don’t Forget to Complete Your HR Year-End Checklist

Believe it or not, 2013 is nearly over. Before you take off for the holidays, be sure you have reviewed and completed those HR items you need to finish before year end. Here’s a checklist for you:

• Order any updated Federal and State Labor Law Posters.
• Review your employee handbook to identify where changes are needed to reflect new laws, policies and/or procedures.
• Review and update employee addresses in preparation for W-2 distribution.
• Review and update job descriptions.
• Finalize the HR Budget for 2014.
• Schedule implementation of Employee Survey suggestions.
• Determine dates of company holidays for 2014.
• Renew any annual memberships and subscriptions.
• Check stock on basic forms and reorder as necessary.
• Deal with any lingering employee relations issues.

In addition to taking care of these items, take the opportunity to look back over the year and assess – from a people standpoint – what went well and what didn’t go so well. Are your employees engaged and productive? If not, do you see any trends that you could work on turning around in 2014? Are there any employees who stand out as particularly high potential? How will you develop and retain them in 2014?

Giving some thought to these things now, and then putting a plan in place to address them after the first of the year will get 2014 off to a good start!

If you do not have an Employee Handbook or haven’t updated yours in awhile, or need help updating job descriptions, contact me at Connect to HR, LLC at michelle@connecttohr.com.