[IASHRM] Service Awards Program

[David.Larson at kemin.com]

Sandee-
We are in the midst of implementing such a program. 

Our attempt was to better streamline our awards, especially for those who 
have been with us for more than 20 years, and we incorporated 5 year 
increments, starting with 5 years.

So far, the response has been positive.  However, we have really gone to 
another level with providing a substantial cash award (on top of some 
other things).  We decided not to grandfather in employees and, as any 
benefit, establish a start date.  You may want to consider some type of 
grandfather clause-- where we received the most feedback and negative 
responses were those who "missed out" on their award by a few days, weeks, 
or months and have to wait for the next milestone to hit.  There were some 
frustrations there.

 Another item to consider would be employees who had previously left the 
company and came back and selecting their most recent start date, or 
creating an adjusted start date for Service Awards.

Of the awards we give out, we utilize Promotions Plus- Diane Hall: 
641-942-6134.  We worked with Diane on creating a custom catalogue. 
Another source I considered was Sandy Brennan with HTH Enterprises.  Her 
email is brenmar at crosspaths.net.  Sandy has a worthy incentive/gift 
program and catalogues to choose from that I was very impressed with.  You 
can also post to your intranet that I was very impressed with as well. For 
how we set our system up, it was not the best selection for us at this 
time.

David Larson, PHR
Snr. Human Resources Generalist
(515) 559-5275
(800) 247-7496 ext. 5275
david.larson at kemin.com

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"Sandee Cook" <sandeec at dice.com> 
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We are looking at implementing an employee service award program to begin 
with 5 years of service and then jump to 10 years, etc. If you have a 
service award program in place, can you share information regarding how it 
works, what's been successful and not successful in regard to employee 
awards, and which awards company, if any, you are working with? Thank you.
 
Sandee Cook, SPHR 
Human Resources Director 
Dice 
4101 N.W. Urbandale Drive 
Urbandale, IA  50322 
Phone:  515-313-2047 
Fax:  515-313-2347 
 
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