The GLA Insider
Monthly Employee Newsletter - June, 2016
Local TECH center students visit GLA!
The TECH center is a county-wide, collaborative facility that provides Lenawee County students the opportunity for career and technical education classes. There are over two dozen classes for students to choose from, with an emphasis on growing industries. Certified instructors, like Justin, with on-the-job experience, teach the classes, which are a combination of hands-on learning and classroom academics. These courses are available to the students free of charge, as part of their regular high school schedule.
The group arrived in the morning, toured the offices and kicked their visit off by reviewing a slideshow presentation with Susan Richardson. The presentation gave them a brief history of GLA, the incredible growth of the organization, the products and services we offer, some background about the tower industry, and a little information about the recent move to Dundee. After that, they were treated to a full tour of the shop, with Jordan, who showed them each of the machines, explaining their use/functionality. Then they were treated to an extensive demonstration of the plasma tables by Tyler (their favorite part!)
The instructors told us that the kids really appreciated the opportunity to spend some time in a thriving fabrication shop and see the skills that they are learning, in application.
It was also a great opportunity for us to show off our beautiful facility and earn some more brand recognition within our community! Great job to Jordan and Tyler!
In other news...
Maintaining your GLA driving status!
What are considered "major violations"?
- Criminal convictions within the last 5 years.
- Homicide within 5 yrs
- Manslaughter within 5 yrs
- Failure to stop and identify (hit and run) within 5 yrs
- Driving under the influence within 5 years
- Suspended or revoked license
- Drag racing charge
- Reckless driving
- Careless driving within the last 3 years
- Assault involving a motor vehicle within the last 5 yrs
- Passing a stopped school bus within the last 3 yrs
Unacceptable violations-still would not pass:
- 3 more more moving violations in 3 years
- 2 or more "at fault" accidents in 3 years
Per the GLA handbook, "Any changes to your driving record must be reported to Human Resources immediately, including tickets for moving violations, etc. You must also carry your own personal vehicle insurance (insured driver). DRIVE RESPONSIBLY and take care of company property"
If you have any further questions on this policy, please see Jason Miller or Susan Richardson.
Paycheck management
Are you currently logging into "View My Paycheck" each week to view and verify your weekly paycheck? If you aren't, you should be!
Great Lakes Aerial utilizes a service provided by Intuit, called "View My Paycheck", which allows you access to your paycheck information each week. Once you are logged in, you have access to 3 tabs:
- Home: Your current paystub, plus the most recent paychecks.
- Paychecks: All previous paystubs, sorted by pay date. Here, you can click on "save as PDF" to download and print any paystub. This tab will also show you your current and YTD totals, by category.
- Preferences: Adjust your account settings here.
If you are not currently utilizing this great service or have any questions about how to use VMP, please contact Susan Richardson: 734-868-0130 x206.
The benefits of Supplemental Insurance
- Short term disability: STD is a supplemental benefit that covers you when you are injured outside of work. (Injuries on the job would be covered under worker's compensation). When you become injured/disabled from an accident outside of work and cannot work, you are then left with no income. STD will provide you with supplemental income, based on a certain percentage of your average weekly earnings.
- You can select from several disability benefit periods (3,6,12,18 or 24 months)
- Benefits are paid directly to you.
- This plan is portable.
- *There is also a "critical illness" benefit rider that you can add to the plan.
- Accident coverage: Supplemental accident insurance provides additional funds to help cover out-of-pocket costs associated with expenses from unexpected medical bills, that are not typically covered by major medical insurance.
- You can use this cash for anything you want.
- There are no underwriting requirements, no coordination of benefits (payment is made directly to you, regardless of other insurances you may have), no network restrictions and the plan is portable.
Learn more HERE:
If you have additional questions about the Aflac benefit plans, or would like to arrange a meeting with our local rep to get a quote, please contact:
Melisa Brancheau: 734-915-1252
NATE focused on increasing safety awareness
To see the latest safety video in the series, click HERE.
Welcome our recent new hires:
May and June birthdays!
Donna M-5/1
Dustin A-5/7
Justin W-5/20
Armani W-5/24
Kevin H-6/20
From the desk of Human Resources:
- Please remember to select your destination city (or job location), when heading out for travel, not the location you are currently residing in.
- When returning home from a job, please select "Monroe" as your destination (unless you are an office employee-you will use "Dundee"). The only other time you would use "Dundee" would be if you are actually working in the Dundee shop or attending a meeting at the Dundee facility/offices, etc.
- If you are headed out to a job that does not show up on your tablet, please take a picture of that job address label (on the front of your folder) and text it to Susan. She will enter it right away for you so you can then clock to it.
- Thank you for your continued efforts to compile and organize your receipts into your job folders. Upon return from a job, please present them to Donna in an organized manner for processing. Occasionally we are still finding miscellaneous receipts in trucks, which should not be happening. When you return from a job, please clean out your vehicles, ensuring that all receipts are accounted for and turned in upon return, so we do not have any late receipts. This will help ensure that we are able to reconcile the accounts on time. Thank you!
- For reimbursements: In order to process expense checks from accounting, a valid receipt is required. Donna cannot issue you a check without a valid receipt.
- As always, please be on the lookout for our texts/emails on Mondays and Tuesdays as we are working to complete the time variances and missing punches. Timesheets must be submitted to us by 5pm on Tuesdays in order to meet the deadline, before we begin processing payroll on Wednesday mornings :)-Susan and Nicole!
Questions? Contact your Management team:
Dundee office line: 734-868-0130
Jason Curley: Dir. of Operations X204Troy Zochowski: Snr. Project Manager x201
Jeff Varty: Project Manager x212
Jeff Leitner: Geotechnical Project Manager x210
Kevin Haener: Designer x205
Trisha Beaudrie: Purchasing Manager x213
Jordan Zornow: Production Manager x209
Donna Michel: Accounting Manager x207
Susan Richardson: Human Resource Director x206
Email: srichardson@greatlakesaerial.com
Website: www.greatlakesaerial.com
Location: Dundee, MI, United States
Phone: 734-868-0130