STAFFING - Chapter 4

Employee Orientation

• ensures that new hires are integrated into the organization and their roles effectively

• to help new employees understand their tasks, adapt to the work enviroment, and build relationships with colleagues and supervisors

Orientation Process

• may last for several days, weeks, or even months depending on the kind of job and pharmacy

Employee Handbook

• a document that contains the goals, policies, and procedures that are relevant to the employee and the job that he or she is assuming

Training

• improve the performance of employees in their current tasks and jobs

• essential for meeting current needs

Development

• prepare employees for new responsibilties and positions

• is an investment for future needs

Orientation Training

• involves welcoming new employees, presenting a positive first impression, providing information that will allow them to settle into their new responsibilities, and to establish early expectations of performance and behavior

Job Training

• helps current employees keep up with the new development of the organization, learn new information, develop new skills to perform better, and refresh capabilities that may have been diminised over time

Management Training and Development

1.) On-the-Job Training (OJT)

2.) Job Rotation

3.) Creation of “assistant to” positions

4.) Off-the-Job Training

Non-managment Training

1.) On-The-Job Training (OJT)

2.) Apprenticeship and Internships

Wage and Benefit Program

• key part of staffing, ensuring salary levels align with the industry-standard wages and the pharmacy’s financial capacity

• bouses are often used to supplement salaries based on profitability

Wage

• remuneration or earnings

• capable of being expressed in terms of money, whether fixed or ascertained on atime, task, piece, or commision basis, or other method of calculating the same, payable by an employer to an employee under a written or unwritten contract

Minimum Wage

• 1951

  • Php 4.00/day

• RTWPD (Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board)

RTWPD (Regional Tripartite Wages and Productivity Board)

• sets minimum wage per region

Holiday Pay

• granted by law, to all covered workers

• workers are all entitled to their regular salary even if they do not work on a holiday

200%

Regular Holiday

130%

Special Holiday

Premium Pay

• additional compensation for working overtime, rest days, holidays, or special holidays, except for government employees,

• Managerial and officers or members of a managerial staff

130%

Work on Rest Days or Special Holidays

150%

Rest Day on Special Day

260%

• Regular Holiday and Rest Day

Overtime Work

• refers to any work performed beyond the standard eight-hour workday

Overtime Pay

• Purpose

  • Worker compensation

  • penalty for employers

  • encouragement of full employment

25%

Overtime Pay Rates

• Ordinary working days

30%

Overtime Pay Rates

• Rest days, Special Days, or RH

Night Shift Differential

• workers performing duties between 10:00 PM - 6:00 AM must receive extra compensation of 10% of their hourly basic wage for each hour worked

Night Shift Differential

Reasons:

• Lack of Sunlight, Dange, Disruption of Normal Home Life

Service Incentive Leave

• LC requires that an employer who has provided at least one year of service is entitled to a paid service incentive leave of 5 days

Service Charges

• Additional Fees collected by establishments like restaurants, nightclubs, lounges, or hotels as a percentage of the customer’s bill

• not mandated by law

Seperation Pay

• granted to an employer who is involuntarily and permanently dismissed from his or her job

Retirement Pay

• Coverage ALL employees

  • Voluntary - 60 years old

  • Mandatory - 65 years old

• Exceptions: Government employees, employees of small retail, service and agricultural establishments and cases falling under R.A. No. 8558

13th Month Pay

• all employers are required to pay their employees regardless of the nature of the latter’s employment

• given every December 24th

Maternity Leave

• Employees receive at least 2 weeks of paid leave before delivery and another 4 weeks after a normal delivery or miscarriage

Paternity Leave

• Male Employees are entitled to:

  • 7 days paid leave

  • includes basic salary and a fixed mandatory allowance determined by the RWB

Social Security System

• An Agency established to provide meaningful protection to members and their families against contingencies resulting from temporary loss of income or financial burden and to contribute to the socio-economic development of the country

Employment Compensation Commission (ECC)

• Aims to support workers who experience disabilities due to injury or illness

Temporary Total Disability

• prevents an employee from working up to 120 days

• can extend to 240 days if medical attention is necessary

• starts on the first day of injury or sickness

Permanent Partial Disability

• causes the harmful and permanent loss of the use of any significant part of an employee’s body

Permanent Total Disability

• disability exceeding the period for temporary total disability and prevents employee from performing their usual work

Philippine Health Insurance Corporation

• administers and manages sustainable program that not only measures better benefits at an affordable cost but also extends quality and relevant health care

Pag-IBIG Fund

• promote home ownership and establish adequate housing credit

• Membership is mandatory except those workers receiving a monthly salary of less than PHP 4k

Regular Employees

• performs the necessary or desirable tasks in the regular business or operations of the employer

Probationary Employee

• hired for a regular position but placed under a trial period that must not exceed 6 months, unless specified otherwise by company policy

Contractual Employee

• hired for short duration of the time and the work assignment may possibly be related to the business of trade of the employer

Casual Employee

• one whose service has been engaged intermittently in various periods, within a period of at least one year

Project Employee

• period of employment is fixed to last the duration of a specific project or phase

Seasonal Employee

• hired to perform a certain tasks or set of tasks, the duration of which is pre-determined on the employment during a particular season

Substitute Employee

• hired temporarily for the purpose of subtituting for a regular employee who may be absent from his or her position for some valid reason