Legal and Operational Requirements

Meet legal and operational requirements. A huge benefit to taking this course is feeling confident that you're following your local labor law and protecting your company and your employees. We've broken down key pieces of information, required documents, and other resources into before, on, and after the date of hire. If you try to present all of these forms on the morning of your employees first day, it's going to be very overwhelming for both you and the new employee. In addition, we all know that we get pulled in many directions while we're trying to onboard, so dividing these forms up into three different time periods will help ensure that you do it properly and it doesn't interfere with the rest of your training process and itinerary.

Let's look at before date of hire. Present to your new hire:

the I-9
W-4
direct deposit form
and employee emergency contact form.

As stated before, your new hire should submit these to you prior to their first day or at the latest on the morning of their first date of hire.

Next, on date of hire. Present:

the onboarding checklist for managers. This is located in Onboarding Procedure. You'll probably keep this in your onboarding binder and follow it as you go through the day.
Next, Sample Five Day Training Itinerary – You should have customized this and presented it to your new hire within their training binder.
Next, Employee Handbook – You should have customized this resource to fit your company vision, mission, and internal policies.
Lastly, HIPAA training. We'll suggest that you use the Optometric Success Center HIPAA compliance program. You may also have an external HIPAA compliance program that you are currently subscribed to.

Next, after date of hire. this includes:

a sample of our two month training schedule
and Sample Yearly Staff Training Calendar.

After your VIP's first five days, you'll want to implement a system that goes even further to ensure you're reviewing their performance and implementing checkpoints to ensure they keep progressing. Ensure your VIP knows that you don't expect them to know everything on the first day. Present the information over time, and follow up with checkpoints, including role play and demonstration. Let's take a look at the forms we just spoke about.