Working For HEPCO

    As a HEPCO contract employee, what can you expect from HEPCO as your employer, and what do we expect from you?

Contract Employee Benefits:

A.) All contract employees are paid weekly in arrears; ergo, you are paid in week two for the hours you have submitted a time sheet for that were worked in week one.

B.) HEPCO pays all of its employees using electronic funds transfer to a bank account of the contract employee’s own choosing.  These funds are deposited every Friday morning via a Federal Funds Electronic Transfer from HEPCO’s bank into the employee’s account.  Thus, the employee has immediately available funds each Friday.

C.) All contract employees are eligible to join HEPCO’s 401-K Plan during his or her first week of employment or at any subsequent time while employed by HEPCO.  It costs the contract employee nothing to join, the 401-K Plan is managed by Fidelity, and this plan will stay with each contract employee for as long as said employee keeps his/her account open, regardless of whether you continue working with HEPCO or not.  In other words, your 401-K Plan will follow you wherever you go once you have opened it.  HEPCO does not have a matching program, so whatever each contract employee puts into his or her 401-K, is from your earnings.  Deposits are deducted and deposited weekly, and you can change the amount of the deduction at any time with written notice to HEPCO’s Payroll Department.

Contract Employee Obligations

A.) Each contract employee is given an At Will Employment Agreement prior to starting his or her client assignment.  This simply means that the employee can terminate his or her employment with HEPCO at any time, with or without cause, and HEPCO can also terminate said employee’s employment at any time with or without cause.

B.) Each contract employee needs to turn in an approved time sheet at the end of each work week, so HEPCO knows how many hours to pay the contract employee.  Failure to turn in a time sheet by 10 AM each Tuesday means that HEPCO will not be able to pay the contract employee for the prior week's work.  The contract employee will then have to wait until the following week to get paid.

HEPCO knows that our contract employees are our single most important asset, and we will treat you accordingly.  Whenever we have new client requirements, we turn to our field employees, both past and present, who have skill sets similar to those the client requires to ask the employee if they can recommend someone for the open position.  With all employee referrals, we discuss in advance exactly how the employee will be compensated [lump sum payment verses hourly payments] if their candidate is hired by HEPCO’s client.

Also, we encourage both our recruiters and sales people to maintain ongoing regular contact with each of our contract employees to help us stay on top of how your job is progressing and to better understand what HEPCO might do to make your client assignment be more productive and rewarding.