Inside HR Services

Need to cut personnel costs? Visit our new Web page for help

As districts prepare for the financial storms ahead, TASB Legal Services, HR Services, and Policy Service are working together to provide members with guidance and information on reducing personnel costs during the current school finance crisis. We have prepared a new page called Cutting Costs that you can access from the main HR Services page . This site will host a compilation of links to legal, policy, and human resource information available now in a variety of locations on the TASB Web site plus new material as it becomes available. You will find legal guidance, flow charts, sample forms, feature articles, and more on this site. If you have useful resources we can share with other districts, please let us know.

Train HR and payroll staff FREE at our new webinar, FLSA Myths Busted!

HR Services will offer our first webinar, FLSA Myths Busted, for member districts only on Tuesday, March 29, from 2 to 3 p.m. TASB consultants will separate FLSA fact from fiction and explain the real requirements for breaks, keeping records, overtime, and dual assignments. There is no charge for any employee in an HR Services member district but you must register in advance using this link .

We’ve updated the HR Library

Our second update to the HR Library this year deals with compensation and benefits. The entire Compensation and Benefits section  was updated and expanded to include the following new information:

• A pay systems overview
• Compensation terminology
• Communicating total rewards
• An FLSA exemption test guide
• A summary of compensation laws
• A benefits overview
• A look at Social Security in public schools

To access the HR Library, log in to myTASB and click on HR Resources.

DataCentral has new District Personnel and Extra-Duty Stipends data

DataCentral subscribers can go online  and run custom salary reports for over 120 job titles using any comparison group you choose. The District Personnel Report (pdf) was posted in the HR Library in January.

Come see us at TASBO

If you are going to the TASBO Winter Conference in Austin on Feb. 28 to March 4, look for these HR Services presentations:

• “How Fort Bend ISD Reduced Personnel Costs”—Cindy Clegg, TASB, and Tracy Hoke, CFO, Fort Bend ISD
• “Using Surveys to Keep District Pay on the Right Path”—Mary Barrett and Dee Jeter, TASB
• “Don’t Get Stuck on Steps”—Dane Adkinson, TASB.