Events
UWC Conference merges employers and workforce community
May 25, 2006
Earlier this month, On Point Technology representatives Ron Burkhart and Bob Yokavonus participated in UWC's 25th Annual National UI Issues Conference in Portland, Oregon, which was presented in cooperation with the Oregon Employer Council. In addition to demonstrating On Point Technology's package software products—Barts, Aware and Recover—they unveiled a new Barts module which allows employers to respond to wage audit notices over the Internet. The module was very well received by the members of the employer community in attendance.
The conference explored many major UI issues that employers face daily and presented an excellent opportunity for On Point Technology to communicate with employers and encourage them to support and participate in the UI Integrity efforts state workforce agencies are carrying out. A highlight of the conference was the closing session, which featured a dialogue among several state UI agency administrators and employer representatives. It was interesting to see the number of instances in which these two groups share a common purpose and common interests.
At the conference a UWC UI Integrity Award was presented to Kathy Moore, Chief of the Office of Special Investigations for the State of Washington's Employment Security Department (ESD), in recognition of her many achievements in propelling ESD to a national leadership role in UI Program Integrity. Moore is the first state employee to receive this honor and we congratulate her. We are also pleased to note Washington is a long-term user of On Point Technology's Barts software and has recently deployed our Aware application.
Many thanks to Eric Oxfeld and his staff at UWC for a first-class conference. We wish him well as he prepares to take leave from UWC to move on to a leadership role in the Worker's Compensation community.