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How Can Healthcare Employers Stay Compliant with Staffing Regulations?

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Using Learning Management to Help Ensure Compliance. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, or simply ACA) laid out more stringent requirements of healthcare staff training and certification, as well as a number of programs aimed at helping nurses and other staffers reach those goals.

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4 Key Questions for Making Smart and Strategic Workforce Management Decisions

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Expanding employee training and certifications. Your workforce management system should provide a wide range of valuable data about your workforce demographics — numbers of full-time, part-time, and contingent employees; levels of certification and training; seniority for key roles; average performance reviews; and more.

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Five Ways to Cut Labor Costs with Effective Business Systems

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By cross-training employees with a robust learning management system, a business can potentially save major salary expenses. As an added bonus, offering new training and certifications helps your employees feel more engaged and empowered.

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Skill-Based Pay 2.0 & Manufacturing: A Match 30 Years in the Making

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Advancements in on-the-job learning management software, more sophisticated manufacturing technology, and progressive ideas about employee motivation and payroll models have combined to make skill-based pay more appealing than ever. Many of the same reasons skill-based pay is a positive for workers also have benefits for employers.

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What Can Employers Learn From Amazon’s Leave Management Problems?

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Some of these problems could likely have been avoided with a robust learning management system that requires administrators to complete leave management training and certification programs before handling these tasks for employees. The post What Can Employers Learn From Amazon’s Leave Management Problems?

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What are the Benefits of Job Scheduling Software?

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If your scheduling software shows consistent problems with keeping that role fully staffed, that can inform your decision to expand your learning management program to get more workers trained to use that equipment. Find out how online scheduling solutions from Ascentis can help improve your scheduling practices and save you money.

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Workforce Optimization Best Practices for Blue Collar Employers in Labor-Driven Industries

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Learning management and training programs. For example, the human resources team at a busy healthcare facility may need to account for specific patient-based procedures that can only be performed by staff with a particular certification, or who have attained a particular nursing degree. Overtime pay. Payroll tax.