Steven A. Crawford, MD
OU Physicians Family Medicine Center
900 NE 10th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
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I would just add that
the two things that are not on the minutes are the two things I stressed
yesterday (they are not in the minutes because I forgot to write them
down)--that our employees no matter if they are exempt or non exempt should be
treated with respect and dignity-they are valuable to us and a resource we can
not do without---With respect to the time clock being “tampered with” if there
is discussion regarding that issue, let’s have in OP group or Exec. meetings and
not in meetings where we have clinical staff that could easily interpret our
discussion of this issue as being distrustful of all our staff.
Thanks
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Subject: Time Clocks
Here are the comments and concerns
expressed at the time clock meeting (with thanks to Denise Brown). Please
respond with additions, comments, corrections, etc. to the
list.
Probably the first thing to be
resolved is whether Count Me In, LLC is going to make us an acceptable deal on
replacing the old remotes. I copied everyone on the note I sent to the
representative I've been working with. I have not heard back from
him. The new devices seem to be working reliably, but our experience with
the old remotes was quite unpleasant, and we feel we are due some consideration
for that grief.
Present at the meeting were Dr.
Crawford, George Varghese, Jack Durrett, Deanna Chambers, Chanda Graham, Don
Clothier, Denise Brown, Bev Finley, Vanessa Miller, Quint Dillard, and
me.
I have added Frank Lawler to this
discussion list, and I have suggested that perhaps Cina should also be on this
list. Suggestions for anyone else who should
participate?
Placement of the remotes: We
plan to mount two on the south wall in the east-west hall that runs by where
Gail Chapman works, the hall leading into Blue Clinic. One would be
mounted by Medical Records where one of the old remotes is currently located,
and one would be mounted in the break room where another of the old remotes is
currently located. There would then be a total of four devices for people
to use to clock in and out. An SUR has been sent to site support
describing what needs to be done, along with a request to devise some sort of
guard so that tampering with the Ethernet and power connections would be
prevented.
If and when we do decide to go
forward, we will need to make some changes to the existing policy to reflect the
new locations and any difference in how to use
them.
In spite of the problems that we had
with the old system, it did seem to lessen overtime claims. If the campus
does go to a bimonthly pay system for hourly employees, this system would save
us a lot of manual work collecting time cards and calculating pay
checks.
There are other time clock systems
in use on the OUHSC campus, but Family Medicine is the first on the OUHSC campus
to use this particular system. If we are pleased with the new system,
others at the University might be interested in this
system.
Only Billing is using the system
now, as a test. Next we will choose a time we can have everyone clock in
and out in a group, to see if a large surge of activity will have a negative
impact on the system; that is, will it be reliable with large numbers of people
clocking in or out at the same time, as in regular
use?
We also need to try this new system
with people who had trouble with fingerprint recognition with the old
system. Will this system work better for them, or will we need to make the
PIN option available?
For supervisor sign off, it is
better if they can sign off each week and be done with that week, instead of
having to go back over all time cards at the end of the
month.
Problems clocking in or out will go
to the immediate supervisor and then up the chain of command, if necessary,
rather than contacting Stacy Thompson directly.
Once the supervisor signs off on
time sheet, it is accepted without further question. (Note: It did
occur to me that this leaves open the question of what to do if there is clearly
an error, as when the person filed for vacation on a day that the time sheet
shows that they worked.)
Supervisors will have view only
access to their employees' time data.
We will need a procedure for
substitute supervisor access to read time card data when the primary supervisor
is not present.
We decided to create a list serve
discussion list for this group.