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Limits? - We don't have limits on amount of time that can be made up but we do allow them to make up missed time when we can and with supervisor approval ahead of time. Sometimes making up an entire 8 hours is not possible because most of our emplo…
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I met with our supervisors this morning to present the fact that allowing for one excuse and not another is discrimmination. We are a very family oriented environment (although we have 7 locations and 125 employees). We tend to have a lot of singl…
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How many incidents do they get before disciplinary action? We are re-writing ours and we're allowing 4 instances in a rolling 90 day period and then it moves up from there for further disciplinary action. No fault is interesting to me. What typ…
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Not knowing enough about your industry or how the drug screens are administered it's hard to answer this question - but a thought for you - could you have the applicant pay the lab or medical office(or wherever they are taking the test) for their ow…
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We cancelled her vacation - we did not penalize her PTO time. She still has that to use later if things improve!
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Thanks for all the GREAT advice! We did decided to make this a final warning at the level of a 2 day suspension - without the actual unpaid suspension. We did take away one week of her vacation (not the two we originally were going to) and she whin…
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 12-10-04 AT 01:21PM (CST)[/font][br][br]Hello Don, no protected classes in this case. I think the employee has the ability to do the work and do a good job - she chooses not to - which is too bad beca…
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Good thought on what to do if she calls in... We'll probably require a Dr.'s excuse. I like the idea of final warning in lieu of suspension - sometimes I just need a little perspective from others! I think the supervisor decided to take away one …
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Actually I think I mis-wrote. Her job is collecting on delinquent accounts which she hasn't been doing a good job at on top of the other productivity issues (personal phone calls, visits etc...). My understanding is that the other employees in her…
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We are a place where we provide a service and most of our entrances can be seem by customers. We have designated their own vehicles as being the desigated smoking area. We don't allow them to hang outside the doors nor do we provide a shelter. …
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Parabeagle you hit the nail on the head with the consistency issue. This flex idea is new to me and I didn't know that was a possibility! The maintenance specialist we have is a good worker. I'm struggling with what attendance consistency looks …
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I just wanted to make sure we were consistently applying the attendance policy. Some days he comes in at 6am, some 6:15am, some 6:30am, sometimes 7:00am. Does this seem like he needs a flexible schedule daily? Also - I've never really been expose…
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It is moments like these that make me appreciate the "Dilbert" comic strip oh so much more! What did you mean when you say "She feels that not getting paid is punishment enough." Don't your employees have to use PTO or something to cover an unex…
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We used to provide time off to vote maybe 12-15 years ago but not anymore. As far as I know Michigan has no state stipulations about providing paid time off to do so.
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Thanks for all the replies to my question. I will say that the attendance (tardiness) policy we have is not enforced uniformly (i.e. some supervisors overlook a minute or two - sometimes for those with ongoing late problems and others do not.) I r…
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This is a non-exempt position. She does accounting/clerical type work. She does not relieve any other employee.
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We are a financial institution and most of our terminations go fairly well. We do what Don D said in that we try not to directly say "you are being terminated" but do so indirectly and let it sink in. Sometimes they want to reason or negotiate a…
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I agree with you that your patients should be the top priority in getting parking spaces. After all - it's because of them that you all have jobs! That's how we look at it at our place of employment. Is the vacant lot owned by the medical pract…
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We have a progressive disciplinary action policy that helps alleviate this. We've done training sessions with managers to train them on what progressive disciplinary action is. We use the video series advertised on this website (10 danger zones by …
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You've got some really good suggestions here. I think this was mentioned above, but I find that I tend to take an employees anger personally when really it's their own fault and sometimes that needs to be pointed out. The policies are clear they j…
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I would agree with the others and do an investigation. Have you also had a talk with the "rude" employee to find out what her take was on the situation? I've used that before as an opportunity to tell them they've upset another employee to tears, …
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Thanks Zen for the information. We don't insure the employee's personal vehicles (which they use) but we do have an overall liability coverage. When I asked our Rep he wasn't helpful at all.
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I use National Search and Discovery for my background checks - it's all online and takes about 24 hours to get the results. We've got a package deal and if they find the applicant has lived in a another state/city/etc... they (for a price) will als…
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Our broker is estimating a 20% increase in premium provided we keep the same plan. The increase was similar last year but we increased our co-pays to bring it down to a 16.2% increase.
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I use National Search and Discovery. They turn around a background check in about 24 hours (as long as the information is sent by a deadline). They do a thorough job. Their website is [url]www.nationsearch.com[/url].