ORS is committed to its partnership with school employers. With this in mind, we offer training to help you successfully report your employees' wages, hours, and contributions. To make these trainings accessible and convenient for you, we offer them in a variety of ways.

Tutorials — E-learning modules that provide instruction about employer reporting procedures, available on-demand.

Webinars — Live online sessions, as well as recordings and presentation slide decks from past webinars.

Resources

Error Messages and Solutions — This job aid lists the eight most common error messages that occurred in current fiscal year, as they appear in the ORS system, along with solutions. Use it to fix or clear up suspended records so reports can be posted.

Back-to-School Checklist — Use this checklist as a reminder of retirement reporting tasks associated with the beginning of the school year.

End of School Year Checklist — Use this checklist as a reminder of retirement reporting tasks associated with the end of the school year and the summer.

Reporting Process Checklist — Use this checklist as a reminder of the ORS retirement reporting process and tasks.

Introduction to ORS Reporting — An overview of retirement, pension and reporting concepts and introduction to the resources needed to report to ORS. It is intended for new or recently hired payroll and reporting staff.

Avoid FPD Errors — The most common Final Payroll Detail (FPD) errors are addressed in this job aid. This document is intended to help you through the FPD process.