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My husband has served in the ministry before (Southern Baptist), & just as Slogan said, he received a budgeted amount each year for books, conferences, etc. The printer cartridges, software, paper, etc. are more of office supplies & were al…
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This would be a good situation to review with your employment attorney. Its true that exempt employees can be worked more than 40 hours, but where it gets sticky is in determining whether that position is, indeed, exempt. They must meet the criter…
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We recently ran an "experiment" in HR. Our particular work gives opportunity for fraud in that a supervisor can report hours worked with a client even if they haven't worked them. We have ways of checking & always terminate immediately when we…
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Our company works with at-risk youth & adults. We won't hire anyone with a previous felony conviction, anyone recorded on the Abuse/Neglect Central Registry, sexual offenders list, or the Excluded Parties List. Misdemeanors are denied if its a…
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And let me just say how seriously you should take the possibility of identity theft! We had someone applying for credit cards under my husband's name for about one year. Police suspect he worked in insurance billing for a surgery center where my h…
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I have no answer for you, but I'm interested in what others have to say. We had 2 supervisors (in same region, in same month) run up $1200 and $1400 cell phone bills on company phones. Our policy, which they must sign at hire, says they reimburse …
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Rickam, Is your company a small company? Some of what you've described reminds me of my company 5 years ago... small company, rapidly growing, owners who hired clearly unqualified "friends" because it fulfilled their ego trips to "give someone a j…
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You've received plenty of good discussion here. But I would just like to make one more recommendation for your future practices. I'm a little surprised that you would eliminate a supervisory position & only give that person 1 day to make a dec…
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Mr. Miller, Please elaborate on your statement, "the EEOC has no idea how to handle religious discrimination issues." Coincidentally, I just received notice today from the EEOC on an ex-employee who is claiming she was terminated because she was a…
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Thanks for the info. I didn't realize this was a common exclusion - we've never had a claim arising from COBRA before. I will review the policy as you suggested... unfortunately, live & learn. But fortunately on this one, she has no damages b…
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I just recently went to a local SHRM conference on this very issue - "Labor Law in a Non-Union Environment." The attorney who spoke gave this clarification - they are allowed a co-worker, but only if the session is an investigation that could lead …
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One year ago, I got an administrative assistant - best thing I ever did! She was a senior in college - majoring in Business Administration -skilled in Word, Excel, Access, etc. She does all the administrative work - files, new hire paperwork, trac…
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Part of my career was spent in operations management, & I remember a time when my company went through deep lay-offs with no warning. We were still hiring up until the week of the lay-offs. As a manager, it was a very frustrating time. First …
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Pauline, I'm interested in how you do this. Our local (not state) police dept won't help us at all on background checks - said law prohibits them from using their resources for the private sector. But what you've described would be great, since w…
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In answer to the question on state wides - In our Kansas operations, we're contractually required to run a state-wide KBI. Its cost effective ($10) & reliable, but the huge disadvantage is it takes 2-3 weeks to get it back. Because of the type…
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Congratulations on the position "plopped" on you. Many years ago I was in the same position - a small company that was growing faster than anyone could keep up with. (We had employees in other states we didn't even know about - it was bad!) I had…
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This is the ever-present wake-up call to all HR professionals. We should be able to quickly rattle off our contributions to the organization, if asked to defend our position. It helps to establish strategic goals for the department, even if you're…