Vocational Rehabilitation will be able to access the web page and provide information on a potential employee, type in a code and transmit their approval. The workshop could then type in their code and transmit their request to us and we would approve and transmit back to the shop. All of this could be done in a matter of minutes. The attendance sheet on the web page for the affected shop would be automatically updated to include that new employee as soon as we approve them. We sincerely believe that all of this will make life easier from an administrative standpoint and expedite and improve services.
Some workshops already have computer systems as well as access to the Internet.
A form was distributed in January seeking information on what current capabilities are. If there are any special considerations that you want to make us aware of, please note them. We are not making any shops adhere to a specific system. All shops will still be able to maintain their own system and use it to verify against the web page application before submitting. Some problems we do anticipate would be slow web page processing times during the peak hours at the end of the month due to a lot of traffic on the system, down phone lines, down equipment, all of this has to be taken into consideration.