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A few items... If the person takes 8 hours of FMLA time, it's 8 hours of FMLA time, regardless of what hours they work later in the week. Are you operating in a state with break laws? If so, your supervisor is possibly allowing the employee to vio…
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[quote user="cb499"] TXHRGuy, Thank you for the clarification. We are working the benefits side and just wanted to make sure official wording wasn't an issue.[/quote] Whatever HRforME says is what I'd do in this area. Other people know plenty more …
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[quote user="cb499"]The employee states they are "retiring" and the company is documenting and treating it as a resignation. Is there a difference from a legal or recordkeeping standpoint, and does it matter which words the employee uses in their wr…
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[quote user="6346517"] I work in a small (110 ee's) manufacturing company in Wisconsin. Recently, one of my employees found a can of lysol in the shop that had his name written on it along with a couple of vulgar words. I plan to investigate the …
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Question Uno: You can request the copies but I don't believe they are obligated to provide them to you. On the other hand, it would be unusual for them to keep them from you. Question Dos: 2 years, I think. Maybe 3. They may still be interested i…
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[quote user="rocker68"] Thanks everyone, you all have been very informative. Had a brief meeting with HR today. Was told that it was denied because her doctor did not sign off on the paperwork. From what I understand, their Doctor was the one doing…
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He doesn't have to tell them in advance in the case of intermittent leave. There's also the whole "if the company knew or should have known" business.
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I never call the physician except on speaker phone with the employee/patient present. The submitted paperwork might not actually be sufficient and the DOL is not necessarily in a position to judge its sufficiency but, because the employer has not p…
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It's not clear to me that the employee has a responsibility to know when the cert expired. Since the leave is intermittent, you can't plan on exactly when you need to take it. Therefore, you are entitled to provide a cert only "as soon as practica…
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[quote user="efeldman"]Thank you. This occurred in our MN location, and OSHA asked them for a safety manual otherwise they will receive a citation. I thought it was a bizarre request.[/quote] OSHA regs have increasingly pushed into office space. T…
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[quote user="SFbay"]Vacations and holidays don't fall under the definition of an ERISA welfare plan and therefore aren't covered by ERISA.[/quote] Correct -- I didn't answer completely. ERISA has nothing to do with your situation, but there may be…
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[quote user="MaureenHall3"]Hi - does anyone know if there are any issues with changing holiday/vacation policy midyear. There is a business that wants to retract its paid holidays and possibly reduce its paid vacation from 2/1/2009 going forward du…
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[quote user="lashefHR"]I am soliciting everyone for ideas. Every year our top sales achievers are recognized with a trip. This is about 10% of our sales force. I am in need of a couple of cool names for what we can call this group every year. Curren…
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My main challenge is time. So, unfortunately, not only can I not guarantee a result, I can't even guarantee much of an effort. If you are desperate, send it to txhrperson at y a h 0 0 dot c 0 m and reply here. I'll see what I can do.
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[quote user="JEP123"]Check out the DOL opinion letter called FLSA2009-18 date 1/16/09. They address permanent changes in the work schedule and salary vs fluctuating or temporary changes in the work schedule and salary. Seem like it could be ok, as…
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[quote user="Boss Hoss"]It seems like the easiest solution is to convert all employees that they want to reduce the pay of, back to hourly, then a week or two later reduce the number of hours worked to 32. End of problem and no one has a legitmate c…
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[quote user="Jake2"]The salary can be reduced if the position still meets all the conditions for the particular exemption, including the minimum weekly salary of $455.The FLSA allows reductions in employees’ salaries as long as the reductions are no…
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[quote user="1361667"]I believe if the employees are truly working only 4 days as opposed to 5, you could reduce the salary. An exempt employee must be paid for any part of a day they work, but if they don't work at all on a given workday, the sala…
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[quote user="6348386"] Yes folks, it keeps getting better. Our President is not in favor of the salary reduction concept as he does not like the message it sends to his exempts. He would prefer to skirt the issue of, "once you work any part of a …
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[quote user="HRforME"] Correct. However after you lower pay, you can change company policy on exempt employee schedules and change the exempt's work schedule to be a 4 day workweek if it is what the company wants to do. At that point, they would st…
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[quote user="Crayl"]I would stay away from the phrase "reduction in hours." It is a reduction in days. The salaried employees will now work 4 days rather than 5, a 20% reduction in days and in pay.[/quote] That doesn't really solve the problem. A…
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I hope my sense isn't too common. I try to get people to pay me a lot of money for this stuff. If anybody tells someone else I have common sense, I'll deny it. A lot depends on your relationship to the management team. If you are, for example, a …
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If this is true at all, it sounds like something that's tied up in the deal granting the money paying for the jobs. I've worked non-profit before and we had no rule about the necessity of exempt supervisory staff being on-site while non-exempt empl…
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Keep it simple. I would do the following two things if I were in your shoes. Merit pay changes will occur for all employees on Feb 1. Performance appraisals will be conducted in January. Period. Say it like it's not a big deal and it won't be a …
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[quote user="HR in TX"]We don't want this to become a cost of living raise, but we won't have a review attached to it. Raises will probably be lower than usual this year, but we want to recognize those that go far above and beyond. Maybe my better…
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You can use a forced ranking... What does the performance appraisal/review being separate from the merit raise have to do with the method of assessing relative merit?
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[quote user="kprefontaine"]Our policy doesn't state how vacation pay is paid out upon termination. The general policy is that vacation time is earned on a montly bases but does not go into further details. [/quote] Time to tighten up the policy. I…
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What does your vacation policy say about how vacation compensation is calculated? Unless there is a CA statute or 9th odd-ball decision, that should be sufficient.
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[quote user="srallen"] Our letter was sent from the President of the company to explain that we were stopping the match for our 401k - for now. It further stressed the importance of contributing to the fund. There was verbiage on the current econ…
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Perhaps it's time to re-consider the team design. What type of design? Engineering? Manufacturing? Interior? Other? Let's drill down into this a bit and see if we can come up with something. One way to break the log jam is to (threaten to) merg…