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I would say yes. Hopefully they're exempt employees, so you won't have the overtime issues involved with the cleaning crew employees.
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A bit more clarification: The certification (PHR, SPHR, GPHR, etc) is from HRCI, which formulated the standards and administers the tests through which one gains the certification. Many universities and others provide courses to prepare you for the…
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I'd be remiss if I didn't plug our diversity/respect training product, The Plus of Us. We did it in conjunction with Greg Naylor, the editor of our Iowa Employment Law Letter. You can preview it at [url]http://store.hrhero.com/plusofus[/url] - and…
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Looks like there's now a groundswell of sentiment to get Jimbo the "reindeer games" manager fired. Here's the thing: Jimbo was obnoxious. His management style in general was obnoxious. The contest was extremely obnoxious. But was it any more of a s…
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Presumably your payroll vendor is handling legal clearances for you, but be aware that state laws are all over the place on whether employers can mandate the use of such cards -- or for that matter, direct deposit.
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COO Alfred Lin of Zappos spoke at our recent HR and Social Media event in Chicago. One of his selling points for the $2k offer was that employees frequently know the job's not going to work out long before management does. I think he'd say the empl…
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As Frank points out, this is an area with a lot of variation from state to state. Most of that has to do with whether state law requires that you pay out vacation pay in a final paycheck. Our 50 Employment Laws in 50 States manual (also available …
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California's CFRA (California Family Rights Act) does include leave to care for a registered domestic partner's serious medical condition. But it sounds like your organization is too small for CFRA to apply.
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I always wondered what city Parks & Recreation was modeled on.
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We have a collection of sample policies in 112 areas. They were originally prepared by Margaret Morford, who's both an attorney and a former VP of HR for several large corporations and is now a consultant who, among other things, helps organizations…
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I read an article about it in Newsweek, so must be more than whispers. Here's a link: [url]http://www.newsweek.com/id/189246[/url] It cites not only Phoenix, but Atlanta and North Carolina.
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The use of company email addresses and business cards is among the evidence that can be considered in determining whether they are independent contractors. But it's not the biggest factor. If you look at Employment Law Letter articles on independe…
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Paul, A few years back, we worked on developing some mobile-enabled applications. We haven't heard a lot of call for it from our users. Part of the problem is that mobile-enablement means so many different things. The Forum, for instance, works …
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That's certainly worth looking at, Paul. It's nice when the original poster ties up the loose end by letting us all know what the outcome was. I guess my big question is whether the posters would really do that with enough consistency to make it a …
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We'll look into it. Brad Forrister VP/Content M. Lee Smith Publishers
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Absolutely. That's what the 911 section is for. Sorry I didn't notice the HIPAA thread until it had already metastasized. I suppose there might be reasons participants would be willing to email or fax a report but not have it online, however. …
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Thanks, Paul. Personal attacks are certainly our big concern. Brad Forrister Director of Publishing M. Lee Smith Publishers
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Sonny, My use of "sort of offensive" was merely meant to convey that offensiveness isn't black and white; it's a continuum. On one end of the spectrum, we've gotta whack it. On the other, we leave it in. If it's mostly on the whackable end, but …
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Sonny, I don't think we've followed a hard and fast rule on it. If something's just plain offensive, we often delete it immediately and inform the poster that we've done so. If something's sort of offensive but has some good HR content in it, we s…
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We've kind of gone back and forth on this one. In our view, the primary reason for the "edit your post" feature was to enable participants to catch their typos and maybe to include a little bit of additional information that they didn't think to i…
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Good suggestion. We'll look at it. Brad Forrister Director of Publishing M. Lee Smith Publishers
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Currently, the page you're on is the one that does not have an underline and is not a live link in the little trail of page numbers at the bottom/top of the page. We'll add the Previous/Next to our list of improvements to consider as we redesign …
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One advantage of ICQ or other instant messaging is that it isn't archived, which means you can discuss confidential stuff without finding two years later that an enterprising trial lawyer has obtained your discussions with a discovery motion. On th…
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Pork, We've had this request before, and we haven't been able to figure out a way to implement it easily. We'll add it to the list of things we're evaluating for future Forum changes. Brad Forrister Director of Publishing M. Lee Smith Publishers …
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Thanks for understanding our need for some standards here. Let me underscore one thing from James's original post -- these guidelines aren't new. We've been using them all along. They're just no longer secret. So we don't think you'll really not…
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I think it has to do with the fact that we're rebuilding the database to solve other problems. We'll watch it and see if it's an ongoing problem. Brad Forrister Director of Publishing M. Lee Smith Publishers
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Hmm. I don't think the Forum has been redirected. Honestly, we weren't trying to alter the Forum in any way except as part of the overall redesign of the site. As James said elsewhere, all of the changes were unintentional side effects of intentio…
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Those of you still seeing overlapping menus - Shadowfax, others? - are you looking at it in a browser that's open at full screen? And what's your screen resolution - 800x600 or lower? (You find this on Windows by right-clicking on the desktop, cli…
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Well, actually, we had two things going on. Before James got back, there was some navigational text - not the message text itself - that was a color I called "brown" but Brian says was some sort of brick red. That color has been sacked. The messa…
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Don, We're working out some bugs. Bear with us. But we've always had a blue navigation bar on the left. We just changed the look, and something we did monkeyed up the Forum. Brad Forrister Director of Publishing M. Lee Smith Publishers