The right solution: Mepco HRM

Holiday Club extends its operations – supported by a comprehensive payroll, human resource management, and recruitment system

Holiday Club, Finland's leading provider of holiday travel services, bought four spa resorts from the S Group and is building a fifth resort, on Lake Saimaa. A rapid increase in personnel led the company to invest in a comprehensive solution for supporting payroll administration, human resource management, and recruitment tasks.

The spectacular growth of the Holiday Club group resulted in human resource management challenges that the company's existing procedures and systems could no longer handle. Deployment of the new, complete system began with the recruitment system.

‘Recruiting for Holiday Club Saimaa, which will be completed by autumn, began last winter. We needed a solution for bringing our processes online and processing a large number of applications rapidly. Mepco's recruiting system got us through it,' says Holiday Club Resorts Oy's Group Controller Anne Jalo.

Payroll administration, formerly an outsourced service, become an in-house service again at the beginning of July 2011, using Mepco's payroll administration system. The process is automated by linking payroll administration to shift planning and monitoring of working hours. ‘We aim to improve payroll administration quality and the availability of information and, in the long run, to save on expenses,' says Jalo.

Human resource management for this international group of companies will be standardised by means of Mepco's HR management system. The company employs approximately 650 personnel in Finland at present, and the number will increase to approximately 850 in the autumn. This solution improves the management of employee data, contracts, and competencies, and it simplifies reporting.

Holiday Club selected Mepco on the basis of the company's strong expertise and the simple fact that they were able to provide the best solution. ‘Mepco resolved our payroll administration, human resource management, and recruitment issues with one user-friendly solution. Our partner's expertise and know-how have been impressive. Even the more challenging questions we have come up against have been answered efficiently, and the project has proceeded exactly on schedule,' Jalo says in summary.

For further information, please contact:

Veli-Matti Puranen, Sales Director of Mepco Oy, at +358 400 589 722 or send e-mail
Anne Jalo, Group Controller for Holiday Club Resorts Oy, at +358 400 361 373 or send e-mail

Holiday Club Resorts Oy is Finland's leading provider of holiday travel services and the biggest weekly time-share operator in Europe. Holiday Club has over 31 resorts in Finland, Sweden, and Spain, with more than 1,500 holiday homes in total. The company also owns spa resorts in Vuokatti, Kuusamo, Saariselkä, Tampere, and Salla, all in Finland, as well as Åre, in Sweden. Holiday Club Saimaa, a new spa resort and holiday centre, will open in autumn 2011. The company employs approximately 650 people in Finland, and its 2010 turnover was over €68 million. For more information, please visit www.holidayclub.fi.

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