Human Resource Systems

Ensuring the safety and health of employees within the workplace

Activities associated with planning, preparing, and monitoring of business related travel for an organization's employees

Training is activities designed to develop employees' job-related knowledge and skills for present job assignments as well as future career development goals.  The enterprise level administrative function is the maintenance of training records for state employees.

The process of submitting, approving, and adjusting an employee's work hours and planned/unplanned leave hours

Telework is the practice of working from home or other alternative locations closer to home through the use of technology which allows the employee to access normal work material (email, telephone, electronic documents, etc.). Telework may be scheduled or done on an ad hoc basis.

The specific staffing strategies designed to develop an internal pool for anticipated vacancies

Strategic workforce planning looks at system-wide issues and strategies to: Support the organization's strategic plan (e.g., reorganization and redeployment) Address external workforce factors that affect the entire business (e.g., succession planning for retirement bubbles, or staff reduction planning for budget cuts). Maintain organizational capacity (e.g., in-service training) Mitigate risk exposure (e.g., safety planning and Equal Employment Opportunity training)

The voluntary or involuntary act of leaving Washington State service

The days and hours an employee is scheduled to work

Separation of an employee who meets the age and service requirements to receive retirement benefits and has filed an application for retirement with the Department of Retirement Systems - includes tracking and/or managing an employee's retirement eligibility status throughout the life cycle of an employee's career