Empower Jumps in the Window at O’Brien

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O’Brien Glass Industries will greatly simplify paying its more than 1000 staff nationally by implementing Empower-HR.

Due to go live in July, Empower-HR will remove a great deal of complexity for O’Brien, a national organisation that has different Enterprise Bargaining Agreements (EBAs) with differing conditions for staff in various states.

O’Brien Payroll Manager Rajni Dhar, who is managing the Empower project, said she expected Empower-HR to eliminate a great deal of complexity currently encountered in managing the payroll. “We have to manage different EBAs with different payment requirements for each state,” she said.

“It involves a lot of manual processing that causes a great deal of anguish. Our current system is not date-driven and has limitations in keeping the pay history. When it comes to reporting, it does not get any better.  Our existing system lacks flexibility and requires a fair bit of manual processing to produce meaningful reports.  We look forward to Empower-HR to simplify and automate complex calculations and provide us the potential to tailor reports to suit our business needs.”

Founded in 1924, O'Brien www.obrienglass.com.au is a market leader in both automotive and building glass replacement. It has 50 automotive branches and 38 Home, Shop, Office branches nationally as well as its head office, a factory and a distribution centre in Sydney.

O’Brien selected Empower Masterpay from a competitive field of national suppliers. Using its ASP delivery model, Empower is providing O’Brien with HR, Payroll and Time & Attendance modules. As well as a full clock-to-bank solution, O’Brien insisted on a date-driven HR/Payroll system to solve its existing problems and issues.

Ms. Dhar said O’Brien had required a date-driven system to cater for RDOs and annual leave-on-average basis. “When we did further investigation, we found the Empower system was the best of all other systems that we looked at in the market,” she said.

For more information, please contact Empower Director Customer Delivery Chris Wilson on (08) 8332 6988 or chris.wilson@empower.com.au.

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