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Along those lines, I always loved a cartoon I saw several years ago of a rooster coming home beaming and saying to his wife: "Honey, I got the job, and guess what, they pay chicken feed!"
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My wife goes crazy at Christmas!! We have 5 trees, approximately 150 ceramic houses in 'villages', candles all over, and every piece of linen, towel, etc, etc, is seasonal. I'm, personally, the original Scrooge, but try to tolerate all this as wel…
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Agree with Don & Frank, and here's a question that I haven't been able to get an answer to: Why don't people SIGN their cover letters? I'd estimate that close to half of the cover letters that I get aren't signed. Is this something they teach…
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Have to chime in on this topic. I get up every morning at 5:00 to go for my walk to get my heart started, so got to observe the 'shower' from WI. We had clear skies and it was quite remarkable, including the trails of 'sparkles' left by some of the…
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Second question first: If so, that would have to be a state-specific regulation. Ain't so in all states. Most employees didn't have a problem with it, but a few die-hards had to be dragged kicking and screaming into it. In the end, we didn't los…
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We pay different amounts in different departments (we're a municipality), so the police get a monthly amount, public works gets an hourly amount. FLSA will require that you calculate the differential into 'regular rate' when you pay overtime.
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What should she say? "Hey, where the heck (or another word) is my paycheck???!!" "I kept my part of the deal and worked for you, now its your turn, pay me." Oh, well, that may not work if she wants to retain her job. marc has given you good advi…
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Sounds OK to me, too. Call it 'flex time' and you've just given your employees a new benefit.
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Yup, in spite of Pork's "bible", I remain unconvinced. An employee is an employee, is an employee, not a contractor, or contracted labor. If you could do this, why wouldn't, for instance, a group of farmers get together during harvest and rotate a…
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Tough to prove that I don't beat my wife any more. A couple of quotes from Circular E: "Wages subject to federal employment taxes generally include all pay that you give to an employee for services performed. The pay may be in cash or in other fo…
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Sorry if this shows up twice. I tried once before but it didn't show. Someone who says it's OK, please educate me. Where are the regs that say it's alright to pay some minimum amout of wages as contract labor. What's the maximum? Do you 1099 th…
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If the person is correctly classified as exempt, the only reprecussions might be that he may quit. Where did he get the idea that 50 to 60 hours a week would not be expected in an exempt position? In most of my exempt jobs, 45 hours a week or more…
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I'm public sector also, and we do pay double time for holidays, etc, under our labor agreements, but don't pay 'bonus' rates for attendance at council meetings, although sometimes, hazardous duty pay may be in line for attendance at those meetings. …
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Do you HAVE to bid out the project, or do you WANT to bid it? In WI, the only thing we HAVE to bid out is public construction. We have used Survey Research Associates: [url]www.salaries.com[/url]. They have an extensive public sector database and…
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I'm surprised at your dilemma. In WI, we're highly unionized and all of our labor agreements have some type of rigid step program in the pay system which starts employees off relatively low and moves them up in 4 to 6 years. Most of us don't even …
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You don't have to report to the COO to be insubordinate to him/her. Insubordination is defiance of authority. Unless the HR person has the equivalent authority to the COO, there certainly can be insubordination in the relationship. This was meant…
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Sounds like you were guilty of insubordination and should be disciplined appropriately. Refusing an order of a superior, my, my! : ) One case doesn't create a precedent which has to be followed. You could certainly pay this one based on the misu…
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Not to be too flip here, but: Gee, you have an HR job in Sedona, AZ. What kind of bonus do you want out of life??? This, coming from someone who had 1/2" of ice on my driveway Saturday night, and below zero temps half of last week. Hang in there…
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I'll work with March of 2004, since it starts out right: Red shift works the first, 3, 5, 10, 12, 14, 19, 21, 23, etc. Blue shift works the second, 7, 9, 11, 16, 18, 20, etc. Green works the 4th, 6, 8, 13, 15, 17. Nine work days a month, A gre…
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Your firefighters work the same schedule as ours. We do almost all of our training when our employees are 'on shift', but, then, we have a 40 hr/wk training officer, so he overlaps all of the shifts. Hold your ground on the contract labor. Both t…
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I'm kind of late, was on vacation, but, they are definitely NOT contract labor with a 1099. The rest of the answer depends on a number of things: Is the position exempt or non-exempt? If exempt, you can have them teach without further compensatio…
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Yes. Since vacation is not a required benefit, the employer can attach almost any requirement to it that they want. Used to work in a production facility, and all of our employees had to save/use 1 week of vacation for our annual July shut-down. …
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 11-16-04 AT 02:17PM (CST)[/font][br][br]Edit: For some reason, only the first two responses were showing when I responded. Your question has been answered.
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This salary is equal to or greater than 75% of salaries in their grade/job/whatever.
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Well, drive safely then, and don't get into any of those four or six hour situations where you need medical attention to bring you down. I believe most full time firefighter/emt/paramedics work some variation of a 24 hour shift.
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Don: In my world, there are several justifications: major snow storms, multiple water main breaks during cold weather, wind storms, tornados. Unfortunately, there have been numerous times when our employees have worked in excess of 18 hours.
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We're also a public employer and do offer comp time to our exempts. We view it as an accountability issue: 'Why was Joe off last Tuesday? He took comp time or vacation time, etc.' It's hour for hour beyond 40 per week, and we're only allowed to…
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Pay me now, or pay me later. If a position should be classified as non-exempt, the incumbent will always have a claim for OT as long as they remain classified as exempt. Do the reclass, blame it on the new regs, and take the chance now rather than…
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Creative, yes. Legal, no. Other than in the public sector.
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"gram"???