Respecting your collective agreement is far more than a legal obligation. It’s a way of showing your employees they matter, and a building block of a healthy company culture. Here’s how the scheduling generator in the Workforce Labour Optimization module can help you follow the rules set out in your collective agreement while avoiding costly errors.
Respecting the Rules of Your Collective Agreement
Built with a memory that never slips, SIGMA-HR’s Workforce Labour Optimization software helps you avoid the errors that creep into manual schedule management. With this in-depth technology, you can configure every rule specified in your collective agreement, including premiums, wages, and leave. You can also build call-back lists and manage vacations and replacements, all while respecting the constraints specific to your organization.
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Avoiding the Costs of Non-Compliance Errors
Without the right tools, errors can slip through unnoticed.
Consider this example:
Following an overtime call-back, an employee in your organization ends up being overpaid. But under the collective agreement, that employee didn’t have priority for that time slot. The result? Every employee who did have priority must also be paid the same premium. Without doing complex math, you can see that the more workers you have, the higher the cost of a single error like this one.
Technology That Never Makes a Mistake
To avoid these costly errors, use a solution like SIGMA-HR’s Workforce Labour Optimization software, which accounts for your collective agreement. Better yet, sync it with your accounting software to reduce the irregularities tied to manual data entry. Pair it with the Scheduling and Time Clock module for reliable, tamper-proof time tracking on top of compliant scheduling.
They say to err is human. That’s true! So let’s put technology’s strengths to work improving the world of work.
FAQ
Yes. Workforce Labour Optimization software like SIGMA-HR’s can be configured to follow the specific rules set out in a collective agreement, including premiums, wage rates, leave entitlements, and seniority-based shift priority.
An overtime or shift assignment that skips over an employee with contractual priority typically has to be corrected by paying every affected employee the same premium, so the cost of one missed rule scales with the size of the workforce.
The cost depends on the size of the affected group: each employee who should have had priority for a shift or premium is generally owed the same compensation, so a single overlooked rule can multiply quickly across a large team.
Automating rule enforcement reduces the manual errors that most often trigger grievances, such as incorrect overtime distribution or seniority violations, by applying the same configured rules consistently every time a schedule is generated.
Yes. Connecting your scheduling solution to your accounting or payroll software cuts down on the irregularities that come from re-entering data manually between systems.
