BASIC HR Services Department - Overview of Services

The purpose of my website is to inform visitors of the services I perform at work as well as giving visitors an overview of the services as a whole and why they are important. Employers are faced with many legal obstacles everyday and to help to cut costs and ensure all legal procedures are followed many will hire third party administrators such as BASIC. This also takes any internal bias, or perceived internal bias, and shifts it to a third party. This allows an employers’ HR department to shift focus to more personal issues related to their employees. I included each service my department provides in a separate section to describe the purpose of each service and why it is important to an employer.
• Dependent Verification Audits: This helps employer ensure only legal dependents are enrolled on medical insurance plans and dependents that should be on medical insurance plans are removed. This can brings hundreds to thousands of dollars in savings to the client.
• FMLA: This sometimes complicated law should be left to the professionals due to all of the situations that arise and how notifications must be followed under a strict timeframe and time used must be tracked accurately. There are many black and white areas to the law to be interpreted and a third party administrator is able to process, track, and administer free from bias.
• HR Consulting: Many employers who decide to keep the services “in house” still need consulting from time to time. Be it an unemployment insurance hearing, complicated FMLA issues, or a whole host of employee discrimination issues. This service is essential to avoid litigation.
• Premium Consolidation: This saves an employer time and ensures benefits are enrolled and termed in a timely manner. Insurance carriers have strict timeframes to enroll and term benefits. A third party administrator is able to perform this function immediately and ensure enrollments and terminations.

Three Branches of National Government

The above concept map represents the three branches of the national government: Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. This is a visual representation the national government have three separate, but equal branches of the national government. The Executive Branch is comprised of the President of the United States who is both the chief executive and commander in chief of armed forces. He/she does have veto power to overrule proposed laws. The Legislative Branch is comprised of 100 Senators (two from each state) and House of Representatives (the number of members based on population). They write and pass laws and determine how much money each department of the government receives. The Judicial Branch comprises of the nine Supreme Court justices. They determine if the laws are legal and follow the U.S. Constitution.

Lesson Plan: What are checks and balances and how do they apply to the three branches of government? How do the branches interact with each other and how are each important? What are the pros and cons of our type of government compared to other governments in the world?

The concept mapping above is a very important visual representation indicating how each branch is connected to the other branches showing how each stand on its own, but are part of one government.

How To Maintain Your Computer's Performance

Computers must be maintained to keep them running at maximum performance. Like an automobile getting its oil changed every 3,000 miles, it is very important to change the oil on your computer on a weekly basis to make sure it is running correctly. As an Introduction to Computers student, it is important to know how to schedule weekly computer maintenance to ensure your computer is running smoothly.:

1. Delete Internet history, cookies, and temporary files: Click on Tools, Internet Options, Delete under Browsing History, Select all the Check Boxes, and click on Delete. When browsing on the Internet many unneeded temporary files are collected and takes up space on the hard drive.

2. Disk Cleanup: Click on Computer under the Start menu. Right click on the C: Drive and Click on Disk Cleanup. This is a powerful tool. There are many files collected during the operation of your computer that can be safely deleted to free up space on the hard drive. You can select any or all of the selections. When clicking on each selection, there is a description of the files and how much space will be freed if deleted.

3. Registry Cleaner: While on the Internet, many files are collected that are needed any more, but take up space. Also, files and files extension may become broken or outdated. By using a registry cleaning tool (For Example: CCleaner is a very good free cleaning tool.). This tool will scan your computer for any temporary files the browser cleaning and disk cleanup doesn't find and allow you to safely delete them. It will also scan the registry for any unneeded file extensions or broken files that can be safely deleted.

The goal of this lesson is to give the student an overview of the workings of the computer while on the Internet and how the computer should be maintained for maximum performance. The performance is as important as the hardware and software used for education.