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While I am not one to do nothing, I also do not see how this employee would fall under any accepted policy. If you establish a random testing procedure, you can't very well make her the target because as Pork pointed out that's not exactly random. …
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I'm not sure I understand why your boss is the bad guy here when it seems to me your friend is doing all the blabbing. Even so, do you think he is out to "get you" in some way? From your post, it looks to me like he's genuinely concerned for your …
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A settlement offer for a written warning? Either your evidence was almost non-existent, or someone in Management is in serious need of a backbone.
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It happened to me about a year ago. The EE requested a one-month medical leave to have surgery on his knee. In reality he was serving a one-month sentence for check forgery. It all fell through when his Probation Officer called me to verify that …
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turbo, Rockie hit the nail on the head. Any law in Texas would apply to CURRENT employees, not ex-employees, as this kids is. In the absence of a court order, I would not give him copies of anything.
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Don, as a practicing smartass I felt highly offended by your comment. My hurt feelings aside, you articulated my point precisely. The original scenario posted did not seem so outrageous to me because I've seen it more than once. Those kinds of ve…
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I don't know. Wouldn't tax returns be within the scope of gathering facts for a case such as that?
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In these kinds of situations I think it's best to be a bit more than resonable. I'm not sure how this can be called "No-Call" when by your own admission she called her supervisor. If you have a leave request policy, did she follow it? Do you norm…
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Perhaps when your GM came to you with this his term "Mother's Hours" meant something completely different than your assumption, which would take care of the discrimination issue.
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Isn't using a forged driver's license a crime? I would call the DA.
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In PA we can't make a deduction out of a paycheck without the specific consent of the employee, unless the deduction is mandated by law. I'm guessing that Ohio is the same. So if we're faced with a scenario where an employee loses or damages prope…
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I'd share with her that three complaints have come in, and reiterate the policy. You should have her supervisor in the meeting as well. Please remember to document the meeting. The next time she falls asleep go ahead and send her in for a test.
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You already know the right things to do, and what you didn't know has probably been explained in the other posts, and I really like your idea about consulting Uncle Jack, as it were. You seem to be a person of character and as such this is going to…
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What I've found is that most companies inappropriately use the word "teamwork," when all they really want to know is if the candidate can get along and cooperate with other people.
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You need to thoroughly check your state law in regard to this. Here in PA, for example, we have the Older Adults Protective Services Act, which mandates that we do background checks and provides a laundry list of convictions that would bar employme…
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If he followed all of your policies and procedures, and his overall attendance is okay, then I wouldn't make an issue out of it. One question...how do you know he was drunk?
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What is your proof that he and his fiancee were drinking? Do you have witness statements attesting to their behavior? If your evidence is solid, I would definately use discipline. You may not want to terminate him if his record is clean, but I wo…
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Another key component to Marc's anology is that the decision to lease the car is voluntary, and I think that the question of fairness in regard to reimbursing the purchased vacation would hinge on that point. So long as it is a voluntary arrangemen…
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Great scenario and question. When you say "purchase" do you mean that the EE's are allowed to take additional vacation with no pay, or does actual cash change hands?
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It's just too early in the morning for me to wrap my head around this one; however, I did have a thought about the language barrier issue. Why not has a set of cards printed up in different languages to cover the household tasks? You would simply …
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Board of Directors? Is your boss the last step in your chain-of-command before the Board? This might not be as bad as it sounds. If he is empowering you to render decisions, then go ahead and do that based on sound HR practices. So when one of y…
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I'm kind of confused about one thing. You stated that you hired the outside firm two years ago, and that they in turn hired the accounting manager with the bogus credentials....correct? What I don't get is how that manager got on YOUR payroll. Un…
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Keep in mind that you can be sued for any reason by anyone who can afford the filing fee, so I wouldn't necessarily let that fear be my guiding star. If you wanted to know whether or not her sick day constitutes FMLA, then it gets kind of tricky, a…
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If your original post is correct, one group of employees is openly disrespectful to another group. Let's say that dynamic is as one-sided as you have pictured (which I doubt, but okay). While job swapping and partnering are fine ideas, I also agre…
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If I read this correctly, the Finance Manager, who is currently on maternity leave, is going to apply for the Finance Executive position. Is that correct? And you want to know if it's okay to discriminate against that person because of the size of…
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Here's what I've done with a few managers in the past. Look him/her right in the eye and say: "Suck it up and shake it off." It doesn't work all the time, but boy you should see some of the reactions.
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How do you know the manager who is bringing in his box didn't steal the other two out of the fridge? It would be the perfect crime. He would get an additional box of meat AND the credit for being a good manager. Have I been in Employee Relations …
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As a matter of procedure I would treat a temp as I would any other new hire. The temp was NOT an employee, no matter how long he/she worked.
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Ah, the power of a great sale to heal people. It's touching, really. Are the expectations higher, lower or the same for HR folks in reagrd to following policy? In my view it should be higher since we are so often in the role of "policy police." …
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So who is Don's PO? (Probation Officer) Does he have to wear one of those radio devices around his ankle to monitor where he goes and stuff? He already has gainful employment, so what else does he have to do to get off probation? Community servic…