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  • When I stated scrap I meant the employee creates  bad product, non conforming material...bad parts.
  • Thank you for the advice.  I stuck to my guns and only answered the basics.  I did get a signed release also.  This is tough but better to be safe than sorry.
  • I sometimes look on job search engines to get an idea of the "going rate" for positions.  I look on monster and career builder.  I have a membership to a local HR group and we have salary surveys available to us fed by all the members of the group. …
  • We have this same issue.  What we do is let our employees take vacation by the hour...that way the employee decides how they want to manage it.  If they want to miss a whole day wether the day is a 8 or 10 hour they choose how much vacation time to …
  • Thank you all for your help and I did missinform you...my boss the CEO of the company will be dealing with this . He is my supervisor and I will be giving him your advice. Thank you again.
    in Poor Hygeine Comment by larscl July 2008
  • Thank you this helps...it appears that he is just gennerally a slob but I will encourage his supervisor to check on the medical issue and the religious issues before we take further steps.  This employee has worked for our company for about 12 years…
    in Poor Hygeine Comment by larscl June 2008
  • Try benchmarking..it really helps...go visit another company or 2 or 3 and see how they do it!  It really helps!  Also when developing your orientation plan imagine yourself being a brand new employee....what things would you need to know to be an e…
  • We are a small company so during the candidate's 1st interview I do a 5 min walkabout tour with the potential employees and explain our general flow..I believe it gives potential candidates a feel for how we work here and let's them see if our plant…
  • We are also a small company and we allow 1 year's worth of Vacation time to roll over!
  • Last summer I was hiring and I had a stack of applications to weed through.  On one particular ap...the candidate stated that he worked at Subway...he stated his job there was "Sandwich Artist"  It amused me so much I had to call the guy in for an i…
  • We have just gone through a weeding out process as well.  Hiring tough is fun after you start doing it!  It's frustrating at 1st but once you start getting good employees it feels great!  We have added a drug test and a skills evaluation....much lik…
  • Congratulations on your new position!!!  I was moved into HR last Nov. and it's been quite exciting!   Something that helped me a lot in setting up my safety program was benchmarking...I actually went and visited some other companies and looked at h…
  • We offer flex hours here. It can be a lot to manage! Basically we have people that work all kinds of shifts....we have 2 days per week, 3days per week, 4 days per week, people limited by social security....it works out nicely.  We are flexible with …
  • I have experienced this as well....and it seems that people are constantly trying to get you to divulge info!  I have turned to eating my lunch at my desk. I do feel like I am on an Island as well....but it comes with the job I think.  I was very ex…
  •   I am definitely investigating.  No question about it!  I guess it just gets really hard when the production manager is always hot on my heels wondering why I need to talk to "her employees".
  • [G]We have around 85 employees so we celebrate 1 time per month...everyone gets a birthday card that we pass around the plant for everyone to sign if they want.  Then we also order in donuts and rolls for 1st break, lastly we give a 45mn lunch inste…
  • [G]We have around 85 employees so we celebrate 1 time per month...everyone gets a birthday card that we pass around the plant for everyone to sign if they want.  Then we also order in donuts and rolls for 1st break, lastly we give a 45mn lunch inste…
  • Thank you for your advice...it is a nightmare.