Chapleau Cree First Nation is a Mushkegowuk Cree First Nation located by Chapleau Township, about 190 kilometres northeast of Sault Ste. Marie, ON. The First Nation is led by a Chief and five Councillors.
Chapleau Cree has employees working in multiple locations – Administration Office, Health Centre and off-site such as Public Works. The challenge for Chapleau Cree FN was managing employee attendance and absences, most notably regular hours worked, banked overtime and sick time off.
After getting their data automatically populated into the system, the Chapleau Cree team of Edith, Lori Moreau (Finance Controller), and Connie Martin (Accounting Clerk), began training and they were off! Lori commented, “We were excited to see the system working in our own environment with our own data, doing for us what we saw in the demonstrations.
Previously, employees were doing everything on paper. Lori said, “An employee would fill out a paper time-sheet that went to their Manager. The Manager would review it and sign it. Then it went to the Band Administrator, Edith, who would do the same. Finally, it would end up with us and we reviewed everything yet again. That’s a big process! That’s all gone now. We have the Online Timesheets portal and it’s all on the employee now to enter their hours worked and of course they want to make sure they are getting paid accurately. And then there’s the ESS web portal that provides employees the ability to see selected portions of their personnel file and, more importantly, their current balances of all time-off categories to which they are eligible – vacation, sick, banked overtime and more.”
The staff use either their own laptops, shared workstations or their phones to track their time banks and make vacation requests. Lori said, “The employees and managers like the mobile ESS & Timesheets.
Chapleau Cree successfully leverages the integration between Sage 300 and info:HR, eliminating the need to manually run reports from infoHR and then manually entering the information into the Sage 300,
Regarding vendor support, Lori added, “the main support group and the team there has been very responsive.”
