1. You are working as a Payroll Manager in a Call Centre, and the company takes decision to downsize their employees. Instead of Manpower they want to introduce Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Robots), therefore the company laid off 50 percentage of their employees in the organization. Therefore, Hundreds of employees got laid off due to the company decision. As a Payroll Manager,

(a) Explain the termination and reporting process taken place in your organization.

(b) Also, develop a comprehensive checklist for this decision to laid off their employees.

2. You are working as a Payroll Manager in a Law Firm, Toronto, and planning to you have install Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in their organization.

(a) Could you explain what questions that should be addressed when reviewing software options for payroll.

3. Consider how payroll processing might be affected by COVID 19.

(a) Identify this situation and define contingency action plans that could be put in place to ensure that employees are paid on time.

(b) What preparations can help ensure that remittances are made when required?