Employee Review Season is Here
by Susan Larson, Payroll Manager
Along with spring comes preparation for our annual employee performance appraisals. In April of each year our office prepares the basic information needed for supervisors to complete their respective employee’s reviews. Once we have distributed our information, your supervisor has until the first of July to complete the reviews and sit down with each employee to discuss the results. Our review period covers from April 1st of the prior calendar year thru March 31st of the current year. Examples of some areas touched upon for the review are Quality of Work, Job Knowledge, Communication and Initiative. Other factors considered outside of the job criteria scor- ing are employee awards (ex. Quality hero), attendance and discipline issues. The review format is based on a scoring system from 1 (unsatisfactory) thru 5 (top performer) and includes 10 areas to be rated. Total score is cal- culated, divided by 10 and then rounded down to the nearest whole or half (.5) score. Historically the across the board/incentive increases that employees receive at the beginning of the fiscal year are attached to the score that is received on the performance appraisal. Last year’s wage incentives ranged from 0 to 5% , but is determined each year at the July Board of Directors meeting. Temporary employees are not included in this annual review process but have historically received a pay increase at the beginning of the fiscal year. If you have questions regarding the review process please stop by the Payroll office or call me at ext. 235. West Production Facility Air Conditioning When the west facility production area was built ten years ago we had plenty of air conditioning power to keep things nice and cool. Last summer we updated a number of our production lines in this area and started produc- ing on three shifts. We failed to consider the impact that additional equipment and continuous production time would have on our ability to keep this area reasonably cool in the summer. Frankly, it was downright hot in this area. While we feel bad and apologize for the fact it happened, there’s nothing we can do to change the past…but we can certainly make sure we fix the problem going into the warmer months ahead. The current air conditioning system for this area has 60 tons of BTU’s. We are in the process of adding another 30 tons of BTU’s and an improved system for circulating cooled air. That is a whole bunch of air conditioning since a typical home might have 1-2 tons of BTU’s in their AC system. The new system is being installed as this is being written and we hope to be fully functional no later than mid-April. Soon after, we hope the only complaints we get on the air at the West facility is that it is too cold and from the accounting department when we start seeing the electric bill for running 90 tons of BTU’s of air conditioning.
April, May & June 2017 Crest Ink 17
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