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Your third paragraph re the policy sounds fine. Considering your concerns, how about adding something like "Romantic relationships between superiors and subordinates are discouraged, and should be reported to management," and continue with "we have…
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You're getting closer to the situation we had. We sent "the letter" which had no effect whatsoever and he escalated. First, let the police know. What worked best for us was to make all the reports to the same officer who then understood the escal…
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All of the above with a couple of additional suggestions. We have onsite security and photo badges. When this happened recently (though more threatening problems), in addition to everything mentioned, we printed the photo from his badge and distri…
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Our HR department found out about this through the grapevine. Unfortunately, the two parties were both employees and the police had been called for domestic violence. The assaulting employee was terminated with the police outside the room and a he…
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We have had to use a temporary employee to catch up on some filing of benefits information, including that for some of our executives. I got a special Confidentiality Agreement from our legal department, carefully explained to her what she was work…
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No one has mentioned the ADA here. If working overtime is an essential function of the job, and is listed in the job description, and the employee can't do it, they cannot perform the essential functions of the job. Does the employee's illness/inj…
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Actually it doesn't relate to personnel files in particular. It reads primarily as applying to customers, though employees still qualify. It says that when you destroy documents, (presumably in line with the legal record retention schedules) any d…
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The regulation which goes into effect June 1, 2005 is called the "Disposal Rule". It is adopted per the Fair and Accurate Credit Reporting Transactions Act of 2003. 16 CFR 682 probably won't be revied to reflect the changes until next year. The F…
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I sympathize with both you and Hackzilla. I have had problems in the past with horrible ongoing hacking coughs. At one point my boss sent me home and wouldn't let me come back for a week. I realize the disruption as I used to keep my door closed an…
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In our company those count as preventable accidents. I believe the limit is 3 in 5 years and termination, of course, depending on the individual circumstances and degree of injury or damage. Accident report required in each case. Number of preven…
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We have an alternative situation. I don't know how many years ago they did this, but the bargaining unit employees in one union wanted a particular holiday, they got it, and the rest of the employees in the company received a floating holiday. For…
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Another point to keep in mind is whether the employee's illness qualifies as a disability under the ADA. Even if you do not have any internal policies like additional sick leave or long term disability, if the employee is unable to return to work a…
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Thanks Don and Hunter1. Re unions in New Mexico - In my last job I was working for an open shop (non-union) electrical and mechanical contractor who was subject at the time to a major unionization push from the local IBEW and we had to deal with fu…
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Don, Actually, it was our outside counsel who returned from vacation. I do have reference sites (which is why I am looking for more on labor) and I do perform my own research, working almost exclusively for the HR department. I am a paralegal, PHR…
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Thank you for your responses. The lawyers are back and what they said is 1) If employee crosses picket line and reports to work, any policy violations can be treated as performance issues. 2) If the non-union employee, or employee member of another…
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Thank you! Isn't communication great? Feel free to ask those same folks my question on reference websites, too.....
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Say, would you mind going down the hall and seeing what they would say? I would really appreciate it and you could share it with us. My Labor Relations "subdepartment" is currently in contract negotiations which is why I have the question, and our…
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Thank you for your responses. I am getting legal advice, but wanted comments from experience as well. What is PLA? What I know so far is that if an employee refuses to work, or anything relevant to performance issues, those can be dealt with …
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I too am not a regular poster, but I am a regular reader. First, I'm evidently naive - I thought the posters were subscribers and in light of James' explanation (you get how many applications now via internet?), I can easily understand why they are…
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It is extremely helpful to put an effective date on any policy or revision. This way you don't have to deal with issues like "if it's printed it's obsolete". There are lots of good reasons to print policies even when they are only stored online. …