System and method for flexible handling of rules and regulations in labor hiring

• US 7,596,566 B1
• Filed: 02/24/2005
• Issued: 09/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deem, Incorporated (Jack Taylor Family Voting Trust U A D 4 14 99)
• Original Assignee: Rearden Commerce Inc
• Inventors: Patwardhan, Shantanu
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Wilson
• Application Number:
  US11/066,022
• Time in Patent Office: 1,678 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1- 10, 707/200, 705/4, 705/8, 705/10, 705/11
• US Class Current: N/A
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1053 Employment or hiring

Abstract

A method and system are described for flexible handling of rules and regulations in labor hiring, comprising of receiving a requisition form from a computing device, at least partially completed by a requestor; automatically performing a rules check on the requisition form; in response to a field entry on the form violating a predefined rule, returning the requisition form to the requester to correct or providing the requisition form to a supervisor to override a field entry violating a predefined rule; and in response to no field entry on the form violating a predefined rule, transmitting the form to a service provider.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a labor requisition form from a computing device, at least partially completed by a requester requesting at least temporary labor support be provided to the requestor;

automatically performing a rules check on the labor requisition form using at least one rule of requisition rules and corporate rules associated with an employer of the requestor;

in response to the labor requisition form violating any of the at least one rule, returning the labor requisition form to the requester to notify the requester of one or more violations of the at least one rule and sending a request for an override message to the requester; and

in response to the override message from the requestor, automatically accepting the labor requisition form having the one or more violations and transmitting the labor requisition form to a temporary labor service provider for the temporary labor support requested by the requestor.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the labor requisition form comprises field entries, the method further comprising accepting, displaying and highlighting field entries that violate at least one rule.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the automatically performing the rules check is performed by a rules and constraint engine.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the highlighting includes coloring the respective violating field entry in a color distinguished from a field entry that is not violating any of the at least one rule.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising after the accepting of the labor requisition form that violates the at least one rule, automatically performing a second check on the labor requisition form, using a computer, in view of corporate policies.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

in response to a field entry on the labor requisition form violating a corporate policy, providing the labor requisition form to a supervisor of the requestor for an override to accept the field entry violating a corporate policy.

7. A machine readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method comprising:

receiving a labor requisition form from a computing device, at least partially completed by a requester requesting at least temporary labor support be provided to the requestor;

automatically performing a rules check on the labor requisition form using at least one rule of requisition rules and corporate rules associated with an employer of the requestor;

in response to the labor requisition form violating any of the at least one rule, returning the labor requisition form to the requester to notify the requestor of one or more violations of the at least one rule and sending a request for an override message to the requester; and

in response to the override message from the requester, automatically accepting the labor requisition form and transmitting the labor requisition form to a temporary labor service provider for the temporary labor support requested by the requestor.

8. The machine readable medium of claim 7, wherein the method further comprises:

accepting, displaying and highlighting field entries entered on the labor requisition form that violate the at least one rule, as a respective entry is entered on the labor requisition form.

9. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory coupled to the processor the memory storing instructions to cause the processor to;

receive a labor requisition form from a computing device, at least partially completed by a requestor requesting at least temporary labor support be provided to the requester;

automatically perform a rules check on the labor requisition form using at least one rule of requisition rules and corporate rules associated with an employer of the requestor;

return the labor requisition form to the requester to notify the requester of one or more violations of the at least one rule and send a request for an override message to the requester, in response to the labor requisition form violating any of the at least one rule; and

automatically accept the labor requisition form and transmit the labor requisition form to a temporary labor service provider, in response to the override message from the requestor.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the processor is to automatically perform a second check on the requisition form in view of corporate policies.