The Southaven Human Assets Affiliation (SHRA), part of the Southaven Chamber of Commerce, hosted representatives for Amazon Tuesday morning to listen to concerning the firm’s constructive work setting and the way it can translate to small companies.
The SHRA was established final April by present chamber members to supply entry to assets for small companies to fulfill fashionable staffing wants and points.
Southaven Chamber of Commerce Government Director Debbie King says the subgroup was the brainchild of Beth Snow, who at the moment serves as membership coordinator for SHRA.
“We fashioned a committee that has now became our officers,” King defined. “They’re April Strickland with Buff Metropolis Cleaning soap, Kim Jones with Chick-fil-a, Brittany Hamlin with Advance Dental Implant and TMJ Heart, Beth is our membership coordinator.”
SHRA’s mission and imaginative and prescient is to fill in some gaps for small companies that didn’t have assets and didn’t have a human assets division.
“(Members) can have a authorized tip or a authorized liaison in James Harper,” King stated. “He’s additionally an officer and works at Harper Little Legislation in Oxford. That connection has been enormous for us simply to proceed to supply assets. We may be educated and never convey untruths to the enterprise group. We wished a authorized stance and somebody who is aware of employment legislation.”
Chamber members met with the DeSoto Financial Council final 12 months and modeled SHRA from their human useful resource group.
“We wished to have the ability to convey one thing just like small companies,” King stated. “As a chamber member you do not need to pay a membership payment for SHRA. In case you are a non-member it’s $60 a 12 months. We wished to make that very reasonably priced. Most of our conferences are sometimes 8 a.m. so not chunk an excessive amount of into the enterprise day. We began this mid-2021. Our first assembly was in April of final 12 months. We had about 70 individuals.”
Harper, who introduced on the session through Zoom, spoke about how employers and HR departments can cope with workers who use medical hashish on the job.
“Tate Reeves signed the Mississippi Medical Hashish Act which principally says that beneath sure circumstances with sure illnesses, individuals on this state can legally use marijuana,” Harper defined. “After all, they’re going to must have a prescription from the physician and particular sorts of medical illnesses. The act lists illnesses and goes into impact this summer season.”
Harper burdened that companies set up clear and concise guidelines to be used of the medication, potential intoxication, and questions of safety. He cited forklift and truck drivers as workers who would trigger a possible hazardous state of affairs if utilizing hashish.
“You will have to take these requests for utilizing marijuana and deal with it like an ADA (Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1990) lodging,” Harper stated. “When you’ve got zero tolerance coverage, that’s wonderful. When you’ve got ten or extra workers, you’re near that 15 worker vary, now you’re going to have to have a look at ADA lodging.”
Visitor speaker for the occasion was Audria Henderson with Amazon’s HR staff. She spoke on Amazon’s work setting of range, fairness and inclusion, constructive reinforcement, worker appreciation and celebrating the variations among the many workforce.
“We wish a tradition that’s inclusive of everybody,” Henderson stated, “and the place everybody who joins feels they’ve a chance to succeed and develop. It’s considered one of my specialties ensuring every person that is available in my path is profitable with Amazon.”
Henderson serves a regional space that features Memphis, Little Rock and Nashville. Each day routines encourage worker engagement from morning Jokes of the Day, ideas of the day, celebrating birthdays, celebrating each attainable vacation, consciousness day and consciousness months.
“Variety is a mix of distinctive expertise, experiences, views and cultural backgrounds that makes us who we’re and in the end advantages our international prospects,” Henderson stated. “It’s a full vary of seen and invisible identities together with however not restricted to gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, bodily and cognitive skills, sexual orientation, navy standing, training, faith, age, era, social class, language, and so forth.”
Henderson stated Amazon understands the lived experiences and distinctive competencies of particular person workers that contribute to an overarching identification for the corporate.
Worker teams that promote Amazon’s inclusion embody Black Worker Community, Ladies in Amazon and Physique Optimistic Friends.
Henderson stated the corporate encourages workers to find out about different workers however usually are not required to take action.
“Nobody at Amazon needs to be afraid,” Henderson defined. “After we produce a terrific environment, everybody will get their packages on time.”
Anybody enterprise or human useful resource officer serious about attending a session or talking at a session ought to contact the Southaven Chamber of Commerce through Fb or name (662) 342-6114.