Products and Services

Omega HR Solutions can handle any level of outsourcing your company may need from a few processes to a full outsourcing solution that exceeds what most PEO's can offer. For example, you may be a controller for a company who also has the job of human resources and you want to streamline your payroll and benefits billing from many reports and sources to just one. The answer is Omega HR Solutions.

Executive Advisement In smaller companies the key executives often do not have an effectual advisor for human resources actions. Omega HR Solutions can act as that advisor when an executive needs to coach, counsel, hire or fire another key employee.

Governmental Compliance There are many Federal and State laws that companies have to work with and the law can be difficult to understand. Omega HR Solutions can help you sort through these laws and make sure you are in compliance with the laws that apply to your company. Let Omega assist in avoiding costly oversights with your HR compliance.

Employment Management The day-to-day management of employees can be a challenging and time-consuming task. Omega HR Solutions can help you understand the issues and challenges of hiring and firing employees, documenting performance, rewarding employees, coaching and counseling and other issues.

Performance Management Proper performance management can be key to the success of a company. Unfortunately many companies do not have a good system in place to take advantage of the many benefits of performance management. Omega HR Solutions can set up a system that will impact employee performance, develop effective job descriptions, and provide an effective hiring tool.

Drug Testing Safe and productive workplaces require drug-free employees. Workers' Compensation insurance savings can be gained by having a Drug-Free Workplace program in place. Omega HR Solutions can assist you by providing fast, effecient drug testing. Ask us about our package and volume discounts.

Behavioral Assessments Using Target Training International's behavioral tools, such as the Managing for Success instruments, Omega HR Solutions can help you in determining the behavioral styles of your employees and candidates. We have the tools and the expertise to provide assessments in employee-manager situations, sales, customer service, team building, executive development, time management, and relationship insights. Ask us about our package and volume discounts.

The DNA of Performance The most effective way to identify candidates and to evaluate employees is to understand the behavioral competencies needed to successfully achieve in a position. The DNA of Performance is a competency-based position analysis that identifies, prioritizes and calibrates performance criteria.

Background Checks From the most mission critical positions to the least, you should know the person to whom you will trust part of your company. Make sure your new hires are who they say they are with a background check. Omega HR Solutions can help you verify past employment, education, credit history, criminal background, driving history and more. Ask us about our package and volume discounts.

Employee Review and Development When your organization goes through an employee review and development process, is the main topic of discussion "When will I get my pay raises and how much will it be?" Most employees regard the review process as a time when they will find out how much more they will be paid in the coming year. Even though they know that they may not advance unless they do their job well, they may never really know what is expected of them. A successful employee review measures the employee's results against a course of development within their job and the organization as a whole. Proper communication is key to move your employees upward in their value to the organization. Without the proper evaluation tools you cannot consistently track your employees and move them to higher levels of accomplishment within the organization.

Employee Assessment Tools:

• Have your employees on a track to higher achievement with the knowledge of what is expected of them before the review
• Blue print successful employees to provide a benchmark to developing more employees like them and hire more with the same qualities
• Open the door for effectual interpersonal communications between managers and team members

Pre-Employment Screening When you hire an employee, you are committing to a great deal of time and resources in addition to the salary and benefits that you offer. Hiring the wrong employee not only wastes resources, it can have a damaging result on your entire organization through lost productivity and reduced morale. Conversely, hiring the right employee can increase efficiency and production within the organization.

Be sure that your candidates:

• Have a behavioral style that complements the job description you are filling
• Can easily adapt their normal work tendencies to the required work thereby reducing stress
• Are a proper fit in the organization to fill a void in production or add a profitable dimension to your team

Special Programs for Sales People If your organization employs sales people to bring in revenues, you can identify strengths and weak areas to increase performance. The important questions every sales organization must ask is: Can they sell? Do they understand the sales process? Are they treating each sales situation the way top salespeople do?

Sales Assessment Tools:

• Build confidence
• Simplify sales training
• Assists in recognizing new sales applicant's strengths and weaknesses
• Allow managing and coaching to be focused on the areas that produce results
• Help to discover specific training or management needs of a salesperson or sales force
• Identify the sales strategy knowledge areas that are needed to sell a specific product/service in a given market

Special Programs for Executives and Managers Every organization will either flourish or remain static depending on the leadership at the top. Have you ever wondered why some organizations in your same industry are at the top and some never seem to grow? Proper evaluation of the leadership is key to reproducing good results and breaking through barriers of mediocrity.

Executive Assessment Tools:

• Identify how you approach problems and challenges
• Outline personal behavioral strengths and value to the organization
• Are designed specifically for the CEO, business owner, manager and decision maker
• Target characteristics that can move you from a "manager" of people to a "leader" of people
• Offer strategies for communicating openly, honestly and directly to get the results you and your organization need

Interviewing A primary tool in effective employee selection is the interview. The Uniform Guidelines on Selection require that interviews be both valid and reliable. Good management requires that the interview be an useful indicator of future success. Omega HR Solutions offers training in Behavioral Interviewing, shown to be the most valuable method of identifying successful candidates.

Effective Hiring Effective hiring is the best method to produce long-term, successful employees. Omega HR Solutions can conduct a training session that explains effective hiring methods and behavioral interviewing.

Communication Do you need to improve communication in your company? Omega HR Solutions can help prepare your organization for growth by conducting a training session that identify behavioral work styles, provide training on how to deal with work styles different from your own, and how to work in the team environment.

Coaching and Counseling Few managers or supervisors have been trained in coaching and counseling their employees in order to empower them to reach their full potential within the organization. Omega HR Solutions can conduct a training session to provide your managers and supervisors with the tools to make them effective coaches and counselors.

Sexual Harassment Awareness Social interaction at work provides opportunities for illegal work behaviors to occur. Sexual harassment not only causes social disruption, reduced productivity, lost time and turnover, it can also be financially expensive if a company has to defend itself in court. Omega HR Solutions can provide training that will raise the awareness of both your employees and supervisors to the subject of sexual harassment.

Conducting Better Performance Reviews Understanding expectations, goal setting, and improved communication are all reasons to have effective performance management in place. Omega HR Solutions can conduct a training session for managers to make them more effective in conducting a performance review. This session will cover preparation, the importance of documentation and the use of the "critical incident" method.

Employment Law for Supervisors and Managers Most supervisors and managers receive little training in the multitude of employment and labor laws they have to deal with on a day-to-day basis. Unfortunately, it is these same supervisors and managers who are the company's first line of defense against lawsuits. Omega HR Solutions can conduct a seminar that will familiarize your management team with the laws and provide methods to deal with situations to help avoid employee lawsuits.

New Hire Pack An effective way to enroll your new employees is important to the smooth transition from 'candidate' to 'employee'. Omega HR Solutions will produce a customized new hire kit with required government forms, benefit summaries, enrollment forms and company specific forms to use for new employees. In addition, we will provide them in Word or Acrobat file formats for easy access and distribution.

Attitude Surveys The "Your Attitude is Showing" assessment tool is available to help employees understand how their attitudes affect their work and the work of fellow employees. Let Omega show you how employee attitudes are important to the future of your company and how to harness its power.

Employee Handbooks Many smaller companies do not have an employee handbook, one of the most effective communications tools any company can have. Omega HR Solutions can construct an employee handbook designed to take into account your company size and your company's personality. If you already have an employee handbook, Omega will review and revise your handbook to make sure it is in compliance with the current regulatory environment. Your handbooks can be printed and custom bound as well as made available in Word or Acrobat file formats for easy access and distribution.

Benefit Communication Most employees are not aware of the value of the benefits you have diligently put in place. With the cost of benefits being higher now than ever before, the need to properly communicate benefits to employees is critical. Omega Insurance Solutions provides services from counseling new employees on benefit programs available to them to helping eligible employees get properly enrolled. As an option, Omega will produce benefit statements on an annual basis customized to each employee detailing the total cost of their benefits along with their earnings and any tax savings. With this information your employees will see their true total compensation and the value of all you have put into their position.

Open Enrollment Assistance Whether you have a cafeteria plan or a group health plan requiring an annual open enrollment period, we can assist you with the total open enrollment process. We will help you organize employee meetings and communicate benefits so that your employees have the best experience and you have an orderly process. We will also follow through with changes made and confirm them with your employees. We can combine this service with our Benefit Communication program to produce benefit statements for each employee after the open enrollment has been completed.

Job Description Development Many organizations lack one of the most essential tools of effective HR management, job descriptions. Omega HR Solutions can help you develop job descriptions for your organization that will help with employee communication, recruitment, and performance appraisal.

Internal HR Forms Conversion Omega HR Solutions can provide an assortment of useful HR forms, in either Word or Acrobat file format for easy access and distribution. We are also able to convert your own internal HR specific forms into the most popular file formats and even make them available on-line for you and your employees.

Performance Appraisal Systems Off-the-shelf performance appraisal forms do not typically help promote employee performance or employee communication. Omega HR Solutions can help you design a custom performance appraisal system that will help measure what is important for your organization.

Policies & Procedures Development As companies grow it is often necessary to develop policies and procedures to handle the growth and overwhelming compliance issues brought about by legal requirements. Omega HR Solutions can help you develop the policies and procedures that will help in legal compliance and with growth issues.

Omega HR Solutions, in partnership with CorpCare Associates, provides your company with employee assistance programs designed to reach maximum effectiveness at affordable consortium pricing. Most companies with fewer than 200 employees are not offered true employee assistance services. Some insurance providers may provide an employee assistance program by phone, email & fax for an extra premium. True employee assistance should include face-to-face meetings with professionals who can better assess situations and work to providing better results. With consortium pricing, you can be offered a program used by large companies at a lower employee rate only enjoyed by larger organizations.

This revolutionary product allows our clients to process payroll from anywhere they have a PC and Internet connection. This intuitive, easy to use software makes payroll a breeze. Have the in-house look and feel with all the benefits of using a service bureau. Omega's payroll service, powered by Payroll Professionals, gives you the flexibility and control you need to handle complex payroll tasks. Run a report anytime for any time period you wish. Have access to all of your data to run management, historical and analysis reports. All on-line!

Managing your workforce can be an extremely complicated endeavor. But it's also one you can't afford to handle poorly. If you don't manage your employees effectively, they can be less motivated, less productive, less loyal and more likely to become involved in a disagreement or lawsuit.

Omega HR Solutions recommends the Ultimate Employer by KnowledgePoint. The Ultimate Employer streamlines all your HR-related tasks and responsibilities. It gives you the solid advice you need to be knowledgeable and confident when handling all types of employee-related situations. It helps you comply with the many employment laws that could potentially put your business at risk. And it's highly flexible to meet your company's specific needs.

Created by top HR experts and reviewed by Jackson Lewis Schnitzler and Krupman, one of the nation's largest employment law firms, Ultimate Employer is a "must have" for every business. From managing crucial employee-related tasks and publishing an employee policy manual to writing effective job descriptions and maximizing the employee performance review process, Ultimate Employer does it all-quickly and easily.

Omega Employee Express is a quick and easy way for your employees to get the human resource information you would like for them to have access to using the Internet. Omega Employee Express is a self service tool to help reduce call volume to the HR department by providing answers to redundant questions, information about employee benefits, important announcements, forms and more. The more locations your company has the more time and money you can save by providing information that is easy to get to without human intervention. Omega Employee Express is a way to bring everyone together and yet make information specific to each of your locations.

Harness the power of the Internet to streamline all of your HR processes. Omega HR Solutions is a value added reseller of the Employease Human Resource Management System (HRMS). We bring value to this award winning system by providing full implementation and tying in our other HR services with the worlds most powerful human resource tool to make for a organized approach to human resource management that brings Fortune 500 administration tools to the smaller employer. Let us show you how you can save time and money by:

Cafeteria Plans Cafeteria plans are an "approach" to benefit planning that includes flexible spending accounts (FSA) that add an additional dimension of employer funding. For example, an employer could create "benefit bucks" for the employee to spend. In this scenario employees can buy or sell vacation days. Full-flex cafeteria plans are a complex benefit to administer, particularly during plan design and installation. However, the actual administration of a full-flex cafeteria plan is not significantly different than that required to administer FSA and Premium Only Plans (POP). The employer may base the credits on employee's family status such as married, single, single with one dependent, etc. Omega also offers traditional cafeteria plans custom designed to fit your needs using combinations of Premium Only Plans, Parking Reimbursement Plans, Medical Reimbursement Plans and Dependent Care Reimbursement Plans.

Here are some of the benefits of having a Cafeteria Plan:

Employers can:

Employees can:

As an option, your employees can use the flex card system for medical and dependent care direct reimbursement using a Master Card debit card. With this option, participants have the elected reimbursement amount on a debit card for maximum convenience and ease of use. Monthly statements are provided to the employee and employer to streamline accounting. Internet access is also available for the employer and employee for up to the minute account status and records maintenance.

Fully Insured Group Medical Plans Omega Insurance Solutions offers traditional health insurance options for employers of all sizes. We do the shopping for you among the nations leading insurance carriers. We bring the options to you to help make decisions easy and affordable. Omega stands behind the carriers selected to assist your employees with claims issues and questions. We are your advocates in the world of health insurance to make sure you get value for every dollar spent.

Omega can assist you with:

Partial Self-Insured Group Medical Plans There are some large firms that pay all of the employee health-care claims out of pocket, but most self-insurers estimate costs based on past claims and buy indemnity insurance to limit their exposure above that amount. These indemnity policies, called "stop-loss" or "reinsurance", protect against higher-than-predicted individual claims and catastrophic group expenses. For the employer, the lower the stop-loss threshold insured, the higher the premium will be for the coverage. Smaller employers should generally have a relatively low stop-loss threshold.

Employees do not experience any difference in a self-funded plan as compared to traditional health insurance, but the company has more control over the spending of its health-insurance money. Employers do not retain the entire difference between the traditional health-insurance premiums and the benefits actually used, because they incur expenses for consulting, third-party administration and stop-loss coverage. Nevertheless, when the plan's bottom line produces savings, it goes back to employers – not to the insurance company.

Omega Insurance Solutions offers a variety of partially self-insured group medical plans administered by our third party administrator company or directly administered by some of the nations largest insurance companies. We will evaluate your company's needs and show you a variety of options that will work to achieve the goals you desire.

Group Term Life, Dependent Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Coverage Omega Insurance Solutions offers a wide-range of choices that are sure to please even the most particular employer. These choices meet the employer's need for cost management and, at the same time, serve to help valued employees responsibly secure their financial resources.

Life and AD&D Highlights:

Group Dental Plans In today's highly competitive employment market, it's becoming essential for companies of all sizes to offer a full complement of employee benefit incentives in order to attract and retain the best and brightest workers. One incentive that is no longer viewed as a luxury, but as a necessity, is group dental insurance.

Omega Insurance Solutions offers employers a variety of dental plans with:

Group Long Term Disability Plans Many people do not think about the possibility of a disability. The fact is, every two seconds someone experiences a disabling injury and one in three workers will lose their ability to work due to a disability lasting 90 days or longer some time before age 65.

Ability to earn income is an employee's most valuable asset. Long Term Disability (LTD) Insurance is designed to provide insured employees with a source of income in the event they become disabled and are unable to work for an extended period of time. Omega Insurance Solutions offers employee and/or employer paid LTD for employers who want to provide employees this valuable benefit. Group LTD Insurance provides the versatility employers need to customize their benefits package.

Here are a few highlights of our Long Term Disability Insurance:

Group Short Term Disability Plans Short Term Disability (STD) Insurance is an important foundation for employers who wish to maintain a strong and effective workforce. Omega Insurance Solutions offers STD plans that can be designed to stand alone or as a complement to an employer's sick leave program. Omega also offers options for self-funded STD plans and STD advice to pay plans. STD insurance provides the flexibility that employers need to customize their disability benefits package.

Here are a few additional highlights of our Short Term Disability insurance:

Enrollment Processing Services Omega will help you keep track of the employees who should be added to the various insurance programs during the year. This valuable service will help avoid possible legal difficulties that can be caused by employees who should be on the plan and are incurring expenses only to find they are not covered. We also make sure employees are terminated properly so you do not waste valuable premium dollars. Our enrollment processing services include:

We will customize our services to meet your needs. We can receive forms for new hires as they complete their waiting period, provide monthly onsite employee meetings for all newly hired employees, or customize a method that best fits the requirements of your corporate culture. If you are also an Omega Payroll customer, we can track your benefits eligibility process by auditing the enrollment forms against your new hires that should be eligible for employees automatically at no extra charge. Either way, your work is reduced to receiving a monthly report reflecting the status of all enrollment activities for the period allowing you to focus on the more strategic issues with your employees.

Invoice Reconciliation Services Studies show that the average employer spends over 45 minutes a month on each insurance invoice to reconcile it for payment. This valuable service works well with our Enrollment Processing Service for a total seamless integration. You gain peace of mind and the financial savings of paying for only those employees who should be on the coverage. Omega's invoice reconciliation services works like this:

All you have to do each month is simply pay what is reported. No longer will you have to pay for employees shown on the bill who should have been terminated or spend your valuable time haggling with insurance companies to get your bill right.

COBRA Continuation COBRA is a law that requires organizations with 20 or more employees to offer the continuation of group health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision and Medical Reimbursement Account) to employees (and covered dependents) upon experiencing a "qualifying event." Employers are required to provide initial COBRA notification to covered employees and dependents, a letter detailing an individual's rights upon experiencing a "qualifying event," and an explanation of the conversion privilege.

Omega provides you with the following services:

Our COBRA administration procedures and practices allow fair and equal treatment for all COBRA Qualified Beneficiaries and continuants. We assist in providing a buffer between the former employee and the employer for difficult COBRA determinations.

Vision Plan Eye care is important to those who need it for corrective lenses and other associated out-of-pocket expenses that can add up for individuals and families.

We can assist with plans that offer:

Dental Plan If Dental care is neglected, it can cause painful problems and financial problems as well for individuals and families.

We can assist with plans that offer:

Life Insurance Individuals and couples alike need the ability to provide immediate cash resources for surviving family members to help them:

Long Term Care About 11.5 million Americans require long-term care services with more than one-third of all costs coming out of the families' pockets. Here are some other eye-opening statistics:

Short Term Disability Income Consider what the National Safety Council reported in its Accident Facts, 2000 edition:

Employee Integrated Disability Benefits Most employers are not aware that unless a formal sick pay plan is established according to IRS Sec. 105(d), any payments made by the business to an employee may not be tax deductible as a normal business expense. The IRS considers these payments to be treated the same as a dividend distribution. Our company specializes in design and installation of employee sick pay plans. Omega Insurance Solutions can streamline all of your company policies and coverage so that employee's get the level of protection they need and employers can make these expenses tax deductible.

Value to the employee:

Value to the employer:

Let Omega analyze your disability and sick pay programs to make sure you have them set up properly for maximum tax benefits and to be sure you are getting the most value.

Business Continuation Insurance Does your business have a buy/sell agreement? Have you funded the buy/sell agreement you have? When was the last time you reviewed your agreement and funding? If these are disturbing questions for you to answer, Omega has the solution. Our professionals have over 20 years of experience in helping businesses establish and fund their plans for the future. Don't let death, disability or retirement take away the years of hard work it has taken to build your business. Let Omega Insurance Solutions find a way to help you set up a program that protects your most valuable asset.

Medical Reimbursement Plans Are you in need of a way to reduce your health plan costs? Consider increasing your deductible; co-pay and co-insurance to lower your premiums and installing a medical reimbursement plan under IRS Section 105 to reimburse employees for the out-of-pocket expenses to the levels you desired. If you have been experiencing superior claims utilization, this can provide you with a way to receive the credit you deserve. Omega can help you set your reimbursement levels so that the employees have the lower out-of-pocket costs they need while limiting the company's overall liability.

Absence Management Programs We design customized solutions to increase productivity and reduce costs due to employee absences. On average, we are able to reduce disability cost by 30%. We gain these efficiencies not by denying claims, but by managing the duration of payments.

Here are some facts to consider:

Let Omega show you how to keep these hidden costs under control and make your company more productive with less down time.

Pay As You Go Workers Compensation Omega can lower your workers compensation costs if you currently have over a 1.0 modification factor and have circumstances that prove you are a good risk but have recently had a less than perfect claims experience. Or, if you're current modification factor is at 1.0 or less we may still be able to provide a savings by allowing us to shop from among the nations top carriers to provide you with the lowest premium. So, if you are tired of the usual workers compensation payment arrangement and feel you may be paying too much. Let Omega work out a program that is convenient and cost effective today with the care and guidance needed to keep it that way. Why pay an up front premium with more quarterly payments only to get a whopping bill at the end of the year after the plan is audited? If you are using Omega Payroll Solutions or other popular payroll services, Omega has a solution that allows you to pay your workers compensation premium each payroll period. No upfront payments and no rear-end audits. Let Omega arrange a process and a payment option that's easy on your cash flow.

Key Person Insurance What is your most valuable business asset? You insure the business against the loss of buildings, equipment and inventory but what would be the financial impact of losing a top executive or salesperson? Don't let this be an oversight that can potentially ruin the best-made plans. For a few cents on the dollar you can be sure that the business can continue it's viability. Omega Insurance Solutions shops among the nations leading insurers for the best rates and program to fit your company's needs.

Retirement Plans One of the most valuable benefits you can provide your employees is a retirement plan. With complex laws and ever changing legislation, you need proper guidance before and after your plan is established. Omega Insurance Solutions has the experience you are looking for to start up a new plan or to take over an existing plan. In today's world you need a plan with great investment choices to satisfy a wide variety of investors and with Internet access to make needed changes and up-to-date information giving employees the control they are looking for.

Omega can assist you with the following types of retirement plans:

Our retirement plan services are provided through White Horse Advisors serving over 200 companies in a broad range of industries. White Horse Advisors is a comprehensive financial consulting and planning firm dedicated to providing clients with quality advice, effective implementation of that advice and superior service. We provide vendor search & selection, plan resource allocation, fiduciary review, investment policy management and financial education for plan participants. Let Omega lower your plan costs while improving the bottom line to you and your employees.