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If the absence is due to the ee personal reasons, you don't have to pay if you have a time off policy and they have used up the allotment. It's time off due to the er reasons you have to pay anyway.
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Yes Martin, I think you can do as proposed. There are several DOL letters discussing exactly what a volunteer may be paid - expenses, 'nominal' stipend, etc. So long as your ees volunteer to do other duties than those you pay them for, you should b…
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There are several wage and hour opinion letters from the DOL that make it pretty clear an employee may not volunteer to perform serivces for his otherwsise employer if the services are the same as those he provides for compensation. Essentially, the…
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Are you public sector? Generally, staff maynot volunteer to perform the same services for which they are otherwise paid.
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Hemeant mint julep flavored chew!
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I think they're wrong. Some ERISA and benefit programs define full time, but for purposes of wage and hour laws, there is no definition. Typically, ERS define full, part, etc in their policies.
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I saw that movie. Poor guy got hit in the head, wandered the streets of days not knowing who, nor where he was. Finally gets picked up for vagrancy, and a sympathetic nurse takes it upon herself to help him find out who he is - and just as they find…
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There is a lot more to 'litigation' costs than defense and settlement costs. Consider the man hours lost searching for documents in response to a request to produce; the hours lost to making copies; to prepping people on their testimony; to time for…
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The fact that one of your 'salaried' people is plowing snow raises a significant suspicion that he is NOT exempt.
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To the extent you get the ee to agree to a deduction, be sure the deduction does not reduce the ee below min wage or you will have a new violation.
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If you are notifying both at about the same time, then probably no problem. Kepp in mind however that most insurance contracts require you to let the Co. know as soon as you know there may be a claim - otherwise they might be able to weasle out of …
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Linda, I have almost exactly the same situation. Our mgr was about to be let go when she filed w/civil rights. Now we've felt stuck with her until we can resolve that claim, for fear if we let her go she will add whistle blower to her list. I'll wa…
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What makes you so sure about her? I would just add that everyone (in front office or wherever one can come into the facility) should be aware of the problem with her and if she is sighted anywhere in vicinity, call security. I take it she has not …
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As others have said, it does indeed exist. You mignt try a search on WSJ, it seems to me a cuple of years ago they did a story on Phoenix - and if I recall correctly - viewed it favorably, but I'm not sure enough to give it a solid recco. My reccol…
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Interesting take. Do you get releases for severance? Surely there must be some standards - it can't be totally discretinary - can it?
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I agree with DTM, paying severance and haveing a policy are not mutually exclusive. When we think appropriate, we offer severance - sometimes based on years of service - but not always. In exchange we get a release. If severance is a matter of polic…
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Geez Marc, I don't doubt that that happened somewhere, but it is so cock-a-mamie it must be from Ca. There is nothing in the FMLA which requires us to be clairvoyant, or even minimally medically knowldgeable to make diagnosis, or pre diagnoses, or w…
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I've tried to avoid most of this stuff..but I don't even understand 'dropped the ball' let alone spectacularly. I was reading the other day there are more schools, hospitals, power, water etc in Iraq than ever under Saddam. Girls are being educated,…
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Smace: I think your first response was right on - don't need this kind of info because..what can you do with it? I would NOT call the doctor, not ever. There are few enough reasons for the emp/er to go directly to the ees Dr. and I don't think this …
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USERRA does indeed apply as it forbids an employer from discriminating against an employee w/regard to hiring, retention. promotion etc.(38 USC 411) I think it would not take much imagination to get to the courthouse steps in your case. While there …
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I'm not sure what you mean by contract e/ee. There are e/ees and independant c/ors, but if this person is in any way an e/ee then you must pay. If he is an ind.c/or to you, then his time at the training is presumably covered in his contract - but, y…
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You may have a state version (Mi does) of a federal act limiting the employer contacts of a creditor or collection agency. I think the Fed law only regulates 3rd party creditor collectors, but Mi law regulates all contacts of a creditor with a debto…
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Your question was 'discrimination or not?' Discrimination, yes; illegal discrimination, no. Last time I looked mem were not a protected class. I think it is outrageous you have able bodied ees parking near the bldg and patients struggling. If I were…
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You can never go wrong with non-exempt. You just have to pay the o/t and perhaps never be sure re his stated hours.
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I agree that IT should use their own discs. But I guess I disagree with most of you about the appropriatness of the ee having the disc at work. My position on pornography at work is no different than drugs - not tolerated. It matters not to me that …
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I understand your curiosity, but I don't view this info as in any way'confidential' in a legal sense, and I jsut don't understand your reluctance to give it to him. His motives, it seems to me are not your concern. And if he uses it to amke a poor …
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 10-13-04 AT 01:16PM (CST)[/font][br][br][font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 10-13-04 AT 01:15 PM (CST)[/font] I would absolutely worry about your situation, because your records are of no use …
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S Moll is right - be sure your policy makes it clean 'no work before clocking in' and I don't think you have a problem. I likje to refer to seimnar speakers as ' cheering from a safe distance'. You can say anything so long as you do not have to back…
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 10-06-04 AT 07:37AM (CST)[/font][br][br]Of course you are right. But, isn't the real problem that mgmt has alowed this situatin to get to the point where it is getting under your skin. If your policy i…
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Since it is acceptable to refuse to hire anyone who smokes (and I think the first case was from Ohio) then by logical extension one would expect you could prohibit ees from somking on the job - no matter where the job is performed. If you want to as…