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  • [QUOTE=ACU Frank;723131]Again, I would go back to my original question: What do YOU want to do? If your bonafide essential functions preclude accommodations, then you can either provide a non-FMLA discretionary leave of absence or you can fire him…
  • [QUOTE=NaeNae55;723110]How much of his work could be done via the phone? Can you provide additional equipment at a minimum cost to help? How vital is this position? If our one of our sales staff was laid up they could still manage to do alot by p…
  • I had seen one of those head lights at Lowe's and bought one for my father who is 85 years old and has lost stength in his hands. My daughter and husband and grandchildren laughed about it. When he opened his present, he thought it was the greates…
  • It seems you have a lot to offer and it must be difficult not to be able to use all of your talents. I am a HR Director and I would love to have someone with your ambition. Although, if employees are coming to you for benefit information, counsel…
  • I am not so sure that applicants/interviewees that did not get hired would care about spending time answering questions about their experience being interviewed by your company. After hiring an applicant ask the new hire what he/she thought of …
  • Thanks James - I was unaware. x:-8
  • Our company has the same type of program - we pay a % of the premiums, (the % being the same for each group.) that way it is fair to everyone.
  • Do you mean one week for each week worked, or one week for each year worked?
  • We have a consultant working with our company to turn help grow the company. The Controller in her 10 years with the company has never ajusted to a corporate setting. She had been a computer/accounting consultant prior to joining our company. Th…
  • Thanks Whirlwind. certainly I would like to look at your policy since we do not have one. My e-mail is [email]HR@tstate.com[/email] We have recently put in a new computer system and if it doesn't recognize incoming e-mails often it won't go throu…
  • Thanks Pork. You have been very helpful.
  • Thanks for your response. We have a consulting firm working for us and the directive was put out to layoff x number from each area. I will need to check with each department head to see what they exactly stated. I do know that senior management …
  • Thanks to all of you for the advice. I guess the pregnacy issue threw me and now I understand that it is no different than any other disability. We have had many pregnancy FMLA but the women have always worked up to or within a couple of weeks of…
  • I remember those ugly seersucker pants. Bad taste, especially in his condition.
  • We are expediters of freight. All employees are office workers and our building is about 11 - 12 years old, very large and tastfully decorated by the owners wife with the help of decorators. We have 140 employees in the building and 25 sales people…
  • At times like this often management doesn't know what to do next. We had an employee that didn't show up for work and didn't call in. It was so unlike her since she had perfect attendance. Knowing this was out of character the supervisor sent a …
  • As Director of HR, I report to the CFO. The CEO and President are the owners of the company and they do not get involved in the day to day operation of the company. In fact they live in another state. Reporting to the CFO has not created a proble…
  • Watrsflo is right, we should of provided further training prior to his promtion. He had just been promoted that week. It is almost days end and we are giving him a three day suspension without pay, scheduling diversity training, supervisory train…
  • Thanks for all your help. We are going to send him to training, gave him a written reprimand and I have suggested to our CFO and COO that we give him time off without pay as most of your have suggested. I am on my way to their office with everyone…