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Labor & HR

The workforce side of the operation, built for barns and for the Temporary Foreign Worker programs many producers run. A phone-first worker portal, geofenced timeclock, shift scheduling with a Mon-to-Sun chore board, time off with balances, LMIA positions against approvals, and document compliance with approval workflows — so audits stop being fire drills.

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The SwineOps Labor & HR module — HR dashboard: workforce and compliance

What it does

Time & scheduling

Geofenced mobile clock-in / clock-out tied to the barn or site — or punch-anywhere per worker, with punch locations kept
Shift scheduling against work sites, copy-week with overlap warnings, and the dashboard clock-in opening on the rostered shift
The barn chore board — chores as rows, Monday to Sunday as columns, workers in the cells, copied to next week in one click
Timesheets with banked hours, paid lunch, mid-day re-clock-in, and per-employee cost; year-end vacation payout
Piece-rate earnings tied to production events, with CSV export

Time off

Time-off types, grants, requests, and approvals, with the yearly tally per worker
Balances for every worker on one list; grant time off without a request when that's how you work
Approved leave lands on the timesheet and the schedule, so nobody is rostered on their day off

TFW & LMIA compliance

LMIA as an employer-held record — positions filled against approved, an open-positions tile, and monthly renewal reminders
An under-filled-near-expiry rule that raises a bell alert and an email before the approval lapses
Per-stream required-document rules (SAWP, Ag Stream, low/high-wage), with document types your organization defines
The TFW standard-form library — the forms every stream needs, auto-slotted with computed expiry
Worker self-upload with HR approve / reject, reason-coded feedback, and real version history

The worker portal

Phone-number sign-in for staff without email; installable on the phone like an app
Works in the worker's own language (English, French, Spanish) and uses the phone's own affordances
Clock in, see the shift, upload a document, take a training module — from the barn

Documents, training & safety

Reusable document templates with merge fields, sent as packages for e-signature and re-sent on a schedule
Built-in training — lesson modules and quizzes that auto-issue a certification on a pass, with Spanish content
Team calendar with recurring reminders and attachments, an iCal subscription, and an onboarding dialog for new hires
Incident reporting and workplace-safety logs from the barn; Google Maps work sites with a geofence view
Per-user feature grants, so a supervisor can see the schedule without seeing payroll

A closer look

SwineOps Labor & HR — Timesheet by worker and site — Timesheet by worker and site

SwineOps Labor & HR — Worker profiles — Worker profiles

SwineOps Labor & HR — Team calendar — Team calendar

How it works

1
Onboard the worker

Create the profile, set the stream, and the required-document checklist and standard forms generate themselves.
2
Collect documents

The worker uploads permits and IDs from their phone; HR approves or rejects with a reason, and the version history keeps every copy.
3
Schedule, clock & take leave

Fill the chore board, copy it to next week; staff clock in inside the geofence, request time off, and see their balance.
4
Export & stay ready

Export timesheets and piece-rate earnings; LMIA renewals and expiring permits alert before they lapse, so audits are routine.

KPIs this module tracks

Document compliance rateLMIA positions filled vs approvedExpiring permits and LMIAs (30/60/90 days)Time-off balances and pending requestsHours and cost by worker and siteWorkers with missing or rejected documentsOpen incidents

How it connects

Piece-rate earnings are computed from Grow-Finish and Movement production events, geofences reuse your Movement & Compliance sites, hours and cost flow into the organization P&L in Financial, and every expiring permit, under-filled LMIA, out-of-geofence punch, or rejected document becomes an alert in the Operations Hub routed to HR or the farm manager.

Labor & HR was built around the reality that a lot of pork producers run TFW programs across multiple sites. Required documents, LMIA positions, expiry dates, and approval workflows are first-class — not a folder of scanned PDFs — so the day an auditor calls, the compliance picture is already on screen. And the daily work of a barn crew — who is on which chore this week, who is off, who clocked in where — lives in the same place, on the phone the worker already carries.

Frequently asked

What happens if someone clocks in from the wrong place?

The clock-in checks the phone's location against the site geofence. An out-of-fence punch isn't blocked — it's recorded with its distance from the site and flagged for review. Workers who legitimately move between sites can be set to punch anywhere, with the location kept on every punch.

How does time off work?

You define the types, grant balances, and workers request against them from the portal. Approvals land on the timesheet and the schedule automatically, every worker's balance is on one list, and you can grant time off directly when a request is overkill.

Does it track our LMIA positions?

Yes. Each LMIA is held as an employer record with the positions approved and the workers filling them. An open-positions tile shows the gap, renewals are reminded monthly, and an approval that is under-filled as it nears expiry raises an alert and an email.

Can we customize which documents each worker stream requires?

Yes. Required-document rules are per-organization and per-stream, you can define your own document types, and the standard TFW forms are slotted automatically with their expiry computed.

Can we send documents out for signature, not just collect uploads?

Yes. Build reusable templates with merge fields, send them as a package for e-signature, and have them re-sent on a schedule; the signed PDFs are stored against the worker with a completion trail.

Do workers need an email address to use it?

No. The worker portal signs in by phone number, installs on the phone like an app, and speaks the worker's language — so barn staff without a work email can still clock in, see their shift, upload documents, and complete training.

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