How Simple Workforce Management Processes Can Keep Your Department Compliant

Mitch Drinkwater
October 8, 2024

Ensuring compliance in the workplace is a critical aspect of effective workforce management. Learn how SubItUp's comprehensive modules can simplify this task.

Why is Compliance Within Your Department Important?

Compliance is crucial for higher education departments as it ensures adherence to the laws, regulations, and ethical standards governing the educational sector. Adhering to these rules not only maintains the institution's reputation but also protects the interests of students, staff, and the institution itself. In cases of non-compliance, issues such as legal penalties, financial losses, deterioration of public trust, and increased risks to information security may arise. In today's evolving landscape, leveraging innovative technologies to keep up with these requirements makes tracking compliance easy. 

Streamline Certification Management with Ease

Managing employee certifications can be daunting, especially in a bustling department with multiple roles requiring different certifications (i.e. aquatics with lifeguard certifications, fitness with first aid, etc.). Using a certification management system centralizes all staff certifications in one easily accessible database. This system not only stores the certification details but also proactively notifies you and your employees when certifications are set to expire. This advance notice provides ample time for renewals, ensuring that all working staff remain compliant with their required certifications. By using this feature, you can efficiently manage re-certifications without the last-minute rush and potential non-compliance issues.

Optimize Employee Working Hours and Avoid Overwork

Within SubItUp’s Scheduling solution, managers can set specific limits on the number of hours students or part-time employees can work in a day and week, ensuring no one exceeds their max hours within an allotted timeframe. This not only helps in maintaining compliance with labor laws but also optimizes work schedules to distribute hours more evenly across your workforce. The controls are automatic once set up and will notify all managers of any issues before the schedule is published to ensure compliance is always considered. Consequently, this module helps prevent employee burnout and ensures a more balanced and productive work environment.

Efficiently Track Time and Attendance

Tracking time and attendance is crucial for compliance and operational efficiency. SubItUp’s Timeclock module enables you to monitor clock-ins and clock-outs effectively. This real-time tracking ensures that employees adhere to their scheduled hours, tracks the location of employee clocks-ins to make sure they are at the right location and identifies any instances of overtime to flag the employee for work-hour monitoring. By keeping a close watch on working hours, you can manage shifts better, reduce unauthorized overtime, and maintain a compliant and efficient workforce.

Bringing Compliance Together in One Place

Every department has unique needs and challenges, and SubItUp understands this. Our flexible system allows you to create an integrated management solution that not only keeps everything on track but is tailored to your operational workflow. With SubItUp, certification management, work hour controls, and time tracking are seamlessly combined to produce optimized schedules, ensuring your department stays within regulations without the stress of missing key requirements.

How Other Departments Have Seen Success Using These Modules

Many departments have already experienced significant improvements in compliance and operational efficiency by using SubItUp’s workforce management modules. For example, a university’s administrative department successfully reduced non-compliance issues related to student work hours by implementing customizable hour controls. Another department saw a marked improvement in certification renewals, thanks to the Certification Management module’s timely alerts. These success stories demonstrate the practical benefits and real-world applications of SubItUp’s comprehensive workforce management solutions.

If you are interested in learning how SubItUp's compliance modules can help your department, please don't hesitate to check us out!