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  • Thanks so much for your response!
  • We have a state law in N.M. that requires an employer to pay an employee at least minimum wage, whether or not the employee consents.
  • Here in N.M. we have five working days to get a final check out and that timeframe works well to assure that all hours are paid, deductions taken, etc. You-all should get that law changed.
  • I am HR VP for a hospital in New Mexico. The state health department requires fingerprinting for employees in certain departments such as Home Health and Psych. We fingerprint these applicants in-house and send them off for screening through natio…
  • We just had a similar situation. We're a hospital and our employee had an injunction against a patient who has to come to the employee's unit for treatment three times a week for a chronic condition. Our attorney's advice was that we have no cause…
  • David - thanks a lot. That clarifies things for me.
  • Our healthcare facility is one of the major employers in town and it would be difficult to exclude relatives; however, we do have a rule that no employee may be directly supervised by a relative. This applies to physicians, also.
  • We pay employees for jury duty for up to four weeks at their regular hourly rate. They then are required to turn over their court-paid fees to the hospital.
  • Our health care organization allowed the practice of donating PTO for awhile, but stopped about a year ago when administration of the benefit became unwieldy and some employees questioned the fact that others received a greater benefit than they did…