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Good advice from Don. Otherwise, your company is going to open itself up to all types of "co-habitation" issues and drive your expenses up as well. In South Carolina, we have what is known as "common-law" marriage,which, in the eyes of the law, …
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We give a five year pin and at the ten year point, we give a nice engraved clock for their desk plus a private parking space (with a 10 year keychain); at 15 we give an engraved watch.
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Like many companies, we use this as a recruitment tool for senior executives, physicians and midlevel providers. It's always been this way as far as I can tell. I can see your point about it being unfair to lower paid employees, especially if th…
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You hit the nail on the head with the sick leave abuse concern. I don't think I have ever worked anywhere with a sick leave plan that wasn't abused. This is why a lot of companies are going to the PTO plan so that employees can manage their time b…
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We have an employee base of 250 employees. We are with Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Typically, we have gotten some increases - last year we got 14%, but negotiated down to 8%. But this year, we got hit with 33% rate increase, which they will not negoti…
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I can see the issues you have with abuse. We have, as I am sure every organization has, groups of employees who know how to work the system and take advantage of every single "freebie" they can get their hands on, whether they need it or not. Wh…
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Hey Chari: I'll try to explain as best I can. I work for a large cardiology practice (24 docs) and it takes beaucoups of money to run this practice. In addition to the shortage of health care professionals and the staggering amounts of money that…
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You will run afoul of the DOL if you dock exempts PTO time when you officiallyh close a facility. You can choose to pay or not pay the hourly employees. I know way back in 1989 when our city was hit very hard by Hurricane Hugo, our bank building …
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Smart! You are absolutely correct. We enable the employees not to take care of their own business; therefore, our valuable time is spent on huge amounts of mundane tasks and our "real" job duties suffer. As long as they know there is someone out …
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If all else fails,drown him in the pond!
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Isn't donated time taxable to the party that receives it? Seems that I read something about this coming up when we tried to put in a policy donating time to an individual.
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We have a Section 125 Plan where employees can use their "dollars to purchase what they need. If they don't need the health coverage, then can opt for other benefits such as additional life insurance, etc. All employees have to sign a waiver of he…
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We usually do an annual event like this after Christmas when everyone has time to enjoy it! It is at a nice hotel and we usually don't do dinner, but have heavy snacks (can't spell that other word) and have a disc jockey. We also serve beer and w…
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I guess I am wondering why you would single "maternity" as different from any other temporary illness or disability and give additional leave for this? (Does your state mandate this?) Seems the employees with other issues/illnesses and the males in…
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I agree. There are some plans that will not allow you to make exceptions for late enrollees. We also started doing this with 401(k)every January and July. We publicize and publicize and there are still a few who think they can come up after the d…
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This is a BIG BIG tipoff, especially in the financial world when you have an employee who never takes a vacation, is very secretive about what they are doing and they "drop by" on days off. If there is someone with a lot of fiscal responsibility,…
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You are correct. There is no federal law that mandates that you pay out accrued time, but some states deem this an earned benefit and it must be paid out under state law. In South Carolina, if you have a written policy stating that an employee mus…
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I think there has to be a balance in every organization and a mixture of individuals that compliment each other. I know that I am often at work by 7AM, many times don't take lunch and might not leave until 5 or 6PM. But...my CEO, my COO and my CFO…
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You would be much better off to contract services with a local day care enter. The expense is great and the liability enormous if you try to run your own day care center. I worked at a hosptal with 1600 employees and we could not justify what it w…
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I agree. You cannot expect a person to work 45-50+ hours a week on some weeks to get a job done and then try to hold them accountable if they take off early on Friday. They are not compensated on hourly basis, so consequently, you cannot track the…
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This is the beauty of a Paid Time Off plan vs. a sick leave/vacation leave plan. No matter why you are off, it is charged. But...to answer your question, in this instance I feel it's appropriate to charge (at least a portion) to sick leave. A c…
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What we do from time to time is have a company cookout during lunch time for employees. Our CEO cooks hamburgers/hotdogs on a grill and we have a company bring in the meat and the side dishes. This usually goes over very well. If you wanted to fu…
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I daresay this would be challenged and won in a court of law If this program is mandatory, I hope those that participate get compensated for it or you will have a DOL claim. I've heard of companies getting incentives and breaks from insurance compa…
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We have our own fitness center on site, but this is an expensive solution. You might contract with a local fitness center to give you a "cut rate" if so many employees join. A lot of them are willing to do this as this business is so competitive. …
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I would be very hesitant about dropping someone in the case of a separation/divorce. Divorce is the qualifying event, but in some states, legal separation is a qualifyig event. Still...I would advise this employee that in the event the judge order…
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Legally, you are not obligated to offer FMLA benefits as this only applies to companies with 50 or more employees.
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You could certainly offer this to part time employees - but I would offer to all p/t, not just one division.
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I would agree with this. If an employee is far enough along in her pregnancy to actually deliver a child and have a funeral, then I feel the compassionate thing would be to allow funeral pay. If it is a spontaneous miscarriage, I would say no. Th…
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Our senior managers get five days over and above the published schedule for employees.
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I work for a health care facility and we rolled all our time off benefits (excluding holidays) into a PTO bank. We have a generous amount (15 days a year for the first year and then 21 until you reach the five year point). This cuts down tremendou…