Hastings School District Taps Ceridian for Web-Enabled HR/Payroll Solutions, Administrative Services.

Business Editors

MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 24, 2003

Range of services helps control costs, allows school district

to focus on education of its 5,200 student population

and services to the community

Ceridian, a leader in managed business solutions for human resource and employee effectiveness services, today announced that the Hastings School District, geographically one of the largest school districts in the Twin Cities metropolitan area, has selected the company to provide Web-enabled human resource solutions and administrative services that help reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and alleviate IT maintenance burdens. Under the terms of the agreement, Ceridian will provide Hastings School District with a full range of solutions, including Web-enabled HR/payroll and tax filing, time management, self-service and benefits administration (COBRA, FSA, and billing services).

"It was really important for us to find solutions that worked well together, and Ceridian offered a suite of unified Web-enabled services," said Mike Pieper, director of business affairs, Hastings Public Schools. "Ceridian's cost effective technology and administrative services not only afforded us the ability to stay within our budget while providing us with innovative new services that promise to save us time and manpower, but also provided us with a single-source provider enabling us to reduce the number of vendors from four to one."