Event Details

Avoiding Layoffs: Can Unemployment’s Shared Work Program

be a Solution for your Business?”

This presentation will provide an in-depth understanding of Unemployment’s Shared Work Program and how it can be a strategic tool for organizations during challenging economic times. Businesses are often faced with the difficult decision of reducing their workforce to cut costs. The Shared Work Program is a valuable resource that can help companies avoid layoffs, retain their talented workforce, and help to reduce costs. Participants will also learn how to implement this program and communicate the program to their employees.

Following this presentation, participants will be able to:

1. Understand the Core Components: Participants will gain a comprehensive understanding of the Shared Work Program's structure, including how it operates, the eligibility requirements, and the specific benefits it provides to both employers and employees.
2. Identify Key Benefits: Participants will be able to articulate the primary advantages of the Shared Work Program for businesses, such as cost savings, talent retention, improved employee morale, and operational flexibility.
3. Evaluate Employee Impact: Participants will learn how the program positively affects employees, providing income stability, job security, and an improved work-life balance, thereby enhancing overall employee well-being and engagement.
4. Implement the Program Effectively: Participants will acquire practical knowledge on the steps required to apply for and implement the Shared Work Program within their organizations, including the application process and employee communications.

Speaker:  Kim Hubric, Vice President, Hubric Resources

Special thanks to Shearer Technical for

sponsoring this meeting.  

Mark Shearer coined the name Shearer Technical for his new business with his wife Carole in 1999, after 5 years of intensive training & usage in the computer industry. Mark’s earlier background in business came from working with his parents, Sol & Mary Shearer, who owned Shearer’s Bar B Que ranch & poultry not far from here in Sinking Spring.

In the mid to late ‘90’s, Mark began by assisting disabled individuals with their computer needs through various offices in PA. OVR, or the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, had hired Mark in over 15 counties to paraplegics & quadriplegics to regain their lives through the use of computers.

Mark was also at that time working with seniors on their computers. Many of them his parent’s friends who are still currently living at the Highlands and in the Reading area. This grew to become one of Mark’s many “nitch” markets.

“It takes a lot of patience and perseverance”, Mark states. “But I know that I definitely received that from working with my parents”. “You see, I would definitely be considered a late bloomer”. “My parents were in their early 50’s when I was born, so I naturally grew up with seniors!”.

After all these years, Shearer Technical has become firmly rooted in the Berks County area, providing quality computer repair, sales, & training in a timely fashion.

Learn more about them at the meeting and on Facebook

Meeting Details

• 7:00-7:30am - check-in and networking

• 7:30-8:00am - breakfast, general meeting

• 8:00-approx. 9:00am - presentation

• Cost is $23 for members and $25 for guests.  Breakfast is included.

• Check made payable to SHRM Berks Chapter is preferred but cash is also accepted.  Can pay at the meeting or mail check to PO Box 55, Temple PA 19560. Email Wendy Button for online credit card payment option.

• Pre-registration of members and guests is required by emailing Wendy Button by midnight on October 3rd.

• Cancelations of registrations must be received by midnight October 3rd to avoid invoice for fee.

• Members registering guests must be in attendance at meeting.

• Berkshire Country Club is business casual dress code.  No jeans or shorts, please.

• Note:  Photographs of attendees may be taken during the session to be posted on the chapter's website and/or social media platforms.  If you do not consent to being photographed, please let us know