1. Firms specialize in providing
help with employee benefits
By KATIE GRASSO
Courier-Post Staff TIPS
The National Association of Professional Employer Organizations offers the
When the owners of Chapel following guidelines for you to consider: ployee-related paperwork.
Mortgage Corp. saw their company ■ Assess your workplace to determine your human resource and risk “There are substantial penalties if
expanding coast to coast, the Ranco- management needs. you mess up,” Burke said.
cas-based business knew they were ■ Ask for client and professional references. The organization also offers cli-
not able to offer big company bene- ■ Make sure the company you choose is capable of meeting your goals. Meet the ent businesses access to an online
fits to their 300 employees like their people who will be serving you. service center where employees can
■ Check the firm’s financial background, and ask for banking and
competition. credit references.
manage their benefits, see their last
A family-run corporation formed ■ Check to see if the company is a member of NAPEO, the national trade as- pay stub and see how much time off
in 1991, Chapel Mortgage’s four sociation of the industry, by going to they have accumulated.
shareholders decided they needed a www.napeo.org. Removing these pressures allows
better plan as they grew. the business owner to focus on in-
“We decided years ago that we ment that would be fit for a large ers and keep track of payroll. creasing revenue and expanding the
prefer to outsource what we don’t business, something they couldn’t A typical client employs about 16 business in other ways, said Doug
do as well on our own,” said owner provide on their own. employees. Drosin, New Jersey district manager
Tom Burke. These organizations allow compa- Besides training and recruitment, for Administaff. “A true entrepre-
“We have employees in six differ- nies to outsource payroll, employee these organizations help their cli- neur has a vision,” Drosin said, “but
ent states. It got burdensome just to benefits and workers’ compensation. ents stay compliant with increas- very little desire to manage that part
administer the payroll.” Chapel Mortgage Corp. uses Ad- ingly complex rules and regulations of the business.”
The corporation decided to turn ministaff, a Houston-based profes- in their industry. According to the
to a professional employer organiza- sional employer organization, to do Small Business Administration, a _______________
tion to give its employees the advan- background checks during hiring, small to mid-sized owner spends Reach Katie Grasso at 856-488-2478
tages of a human resources depart- host training seminars for its manag- a quarter of his or her time on em- or kgrasso@courierpostonline.com.
For more information about Administaff, call 1-800-465-3800 or visit www.administaff.com.
Reprinted with permission from the Courier-Post, July 25, 2005.