Zoho PeopleHR for Santa Monica solar crews and offices.

Yes, Santa Monica is one of our core markets. We configure Zoho for Santa Monica solar businesses around your local utility interconnection, net metering and available incentives, plus local permitting, then deliver remotely from our Glendale, CA office. You get a fixed-price quote in USD and a defined go-live date.

Zoho People captures Form I-9 (Section 1 and Section 2) electronically with document upload and retains it for the required 3-years-from-hire / 1-year-from-termination window. E-Verify itself is a federal USCIS web service, Zoho People doesn’t push directly to E-Verify, so we configure your HR admin’s workflow to submit through E-Verify (case number recorded back into the employee record). For high-volume installer hiring we wire an integration via Zoho Creator that automates parts of the submission. Every Pro and Enterprise tier ships this.

OSHA-30 cards don’t technically “expire” federally, but most solar GCs, utilities and federal jobs require renewal every 5 years (and OSHA-10 every 3-5). We store the original cert with completion date, set a 5-year expiration field, and trigger automated reminders at 90/60/30 days to the employee and safety officer. Same logic for NABCEP (3-yr), fall protection (annual), EVITP (where applicable), CPR/first aid (2-yr), and state journeyman licenses.

Yes. Every employee record has a “primary work state” that drives PTO accrual rules, state paid sick leave (1 hr per 30 worked), NY paid family leave, MA earned sick time, Nevada PTO accrual, etc. For crews that genuinely work across state lines on commercial/utility jobs, we configure the rule to follow primary residence (which is the conservative compliance posture). Talk to us about your specific footprint, we’ll wire the correct ruleset.

Each employee is flagged FLSA exempt or non-exempt at onboarding. Non-exempt hourly installers get federal OT > 40/wk, plus state daily OT > 8/day and double-time > 12/day where applicable. Salaried-non-exempt (rare in solar, common in solar back-office) also get OT calculated against a regular rate of pay. Salaried-exempt sales reps and managers get tracked for hours but not OT. Everything FLSA-compliant out of the box.

Yes, migration is included in the Pro and Enterprise tiers. Employee records, document libraries, PTO balances, performance history all come across. Most BambooHR migrations land in 7 business days; ADP is usually 10-14 because their export tooling is rougher. We’ve done this 200+ times.

COBRA election notices auto-generate at termination (within the 14-day federal window), we route them via Zoho Sign for delivery proof. FMLA leave is tracked as a leave type with 12-week rolling-year math. ACA: People tracks hours-of-service for variable-hour employees so you know who crosses the 30-hr/wk threshold for offer-of-coverage. The 1095-C generation itself lives in Zoho Payroll, see our Payroll page.