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We do recognize five year anniversaries. We give a plaque and a gift certificate to WalMart valued at $10.00 a year. We give the service awards out at the Christmas (oops, Holiday) lunch each year. Hourly and salaried employees are treated exactl…
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You may want to consult your attorney but I don't see why this would violate HIPAA. The order of protection is not a medical issue. It would be a logical step for you to protect your employees by showing a picture to your receptionist and/or secur…
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We have a policy that covers seniority when there is a break in service. A new seniority date is calculated by subtracting the length of time away from the Company from the length of prior service. This gives the employee a new "bridged" seniority d…
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1. Measure elapsed time in years, weeks and days between original hire date (or last bridged seniority date) and the date of separation. This is total service. 2. Measure elapsed time in years, weeks and dates between date of separation and rehi…
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We have no policy about this. If the second job impacted the quality of work we would address the performance issue, but basically consider that what employees do on their own time, as long as its legal, is their own business. I once knew a manag…
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Wow - your gut was certainly right on this one and your Company dodged the bullet. Good job. I usually screen before I let the managers interview - saves everyone time. On the occasions when they have overridden my negative recommendation they wer…
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I agree with the other posters that there is no need to panic. I too have lived through more than one of these and so will you. Do you have previous years' logs - they have always asked me for the last 3 years. Also, your 2003 OSHA 300 should be …
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Somebody up there likes us - for the second year in a row we got a 0% increase in premiums. (Sssh, don't tell anyone.)
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We have not received our increase information yet, but I just came from a meeting of our local employer's council (an informal HR group) and they are expecting between 5% and 14% this year.
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There are many things to consider before a layoff, but if I were you, the first thing I would do is establish a written plan that includes the basis for the layoff, severance procedures, etc. If your state is employment-at-will, you can use any bas…
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Scott: You may want to wait for the formal complaint or you may want to call the EEO to get more information. Do you have a union? We have had people go to EEO without going through the grievance procedure. When we notified the EEO of that, by te…
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Linda: I see many problems with this. If your supervisors are paying for time not worked they are committing fraud. This needs immediate attention - I hate to sound harsh but I would seriously consider terminating a supervisor who fraudently alte…
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As far as I know, prescription safety glasses are one of the few required safety items that OSHA says the Company need not pay for (safety shoes also fall into this category.) However, many companies do pay for them or toward them. We used to pay …
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Thanks - I'm truly touched.
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Both of you are right. The purpose of this questionnaire is to obtain information from employees to check against the information in the system-from-hell (much of which is unaccountably wrong). I am one of the few union plants and I have a real pr…
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There is a good web site - toolboxtopics.com that has brief "talks" on a wide variety of safety issues. You could download some of these and use them as the basis for a presentation. There is also a commercial product "safety bingo" that is availa…
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It sounds like your Director didn't inform anyone in authority of her plans because she knew leave would be denied. If you have a clear policy in place, her supervisor should make the call to California. In my opinion you can require her to return …
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One more thought - I've written Affirmative Action Plans for years and had and passed numerous audits. None of the Companies I worked for engaged in discriminatory hiring practices - all were government contractors (and to make it sillier, all were…
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To protect myself, I would also contact my WC Carrier and inform them of the (possible) claim. Then I would insist on the employee providing exact information of how she got hurt and document this on your usual accident investigation form. If she h…
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Not if you consider it anthropological field study - examining the species in its natural habitat.
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Don - Doesn't everyone have cameras in their restrooms and locker rooms?
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Soho: Sounds to me like your company has taken monitoring to an extreme. Perhaps you work in a high-tech industry or one with corporate espionage issues? It seems from your statements that your morale has certainly been impacted. There are people…
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Keeping them separate also may keep certain auditors from even looking at them. When I had my DOL audit, the auditor said she also was supposed to check on my I-9 compliance. I whipped out my active and inactive files of I-9's and she said, "Oh, t…
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We also ran into this with an office employee who we let go (during her "introductory period") for inability to do the work. She then claimed that we owed her overtime because she worked through lunch - and caused a DOL investigation. I would imme…
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Karla: Time studies are an Industrial Engineering function - and it's very easy to get them wrong and thus skew your costs. I am married to an IE and according to him, any industrial job, including loading trucks, can be studied. You may want to …
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I see none of the HR Hero staff replied about their proximity to Murfreesboro. Perhaps they are abashed. Murfreesboro is about 25 miles from Franklin, TN and Brentwood is a few miles north of Franklin. I'd say they are too close for comfort - parti…
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I guess there's something wrong with me but the email in question struck me as hilariously funny. I laughed my way through it and thank Scott for sharing it. I doubt very much that it was meant to be religious, but it most certainly took a solid p…
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Everyone has described bumping rights correctly, except for one major ommission, which is ability to do the job. Our union contract allows for bumping, but only if the senior employee is "qualified." Qualified means the bumping employee must have c…
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Thanks everyone for the help. It looks like Corporate is going to mandate Kronos. We'll just have to roll with it. Sunny
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I see a lot of nondriver ID's - sometimes the individual drives and sometimes he rides with others. Either way, it's not my business as long as he gets to work on time. I think you may be opening a can of worms here - if driving is not part of his…