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Totally! Or Isis. Remember that short-lived Saturday morning live action show that was going on about the same time Greatest American Hero was airing? -Abby
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I'm typically not one to laugh out loud at something even extremely funny, but I had to apologize to the people in the lobby for snickering and snorting! -Abby
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I will admit at the start: I was an English major with the intent of teaching grammar, composition and literature to junior and senior high students... My biggest language pet peeve (other than EVERYTHING stated in this string of posts) is the mis…
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We here in mid-Missouri get our employees "orientated," or so I've heard way too many times. I think part of that process is to document that we "conversated" on certain required subjects, items and topics... -Abby
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A few years ago, our agency staff (we serve low-income people) decided to reproduce a then-popular version of Night Before Christmas (the one where the second narrator explained the traditional text in ebonics) as part of our Christmas party (we don…
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>For benefits continuation, we don't have a written policy. We require that an employee on >leave pay for their portion of the premium for health and dental (we continue to cover the 100% of disability and life insurance). If an employee con…
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NaeNae, we're Government. Tenant data leaves the active files for the "dead" files when they stop participating in one of our programs, but the records stay in-house for another year. Then they move to our dungeon (archive), and sit there for anot…
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We have personnel files archived dating from 1958... it's always been my understanding that at least the basic essentials are permanent. We are also considering doing a document imaging system not only for personnel records, but also for our tenant…
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I know what you mean! "Did you miss the deadline?" and "You may be out of compliance!" (or worse, "According to records, you ARE out of compliance." - why are you keeping records on me?!?). After purchasing one of those "all-in-one" posters a coup…
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She might as well have been... HER mother was a one-room schoolhouse teacher, and everyone in my family insisted on proper pronunciation and usage from the earliest age, including spelling, grammar and punctuation. I, on the other hand, WAS an Eng…
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We capitalize the names of all our departments, unless the name is being used in a referential or descriptive sense. Our agency doesn't have a department named Human Resources, so I have to find another example to work from (I'm in "Finance" or the…
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My employees would say, "If s/he's still got time on the books, then the absences must not have been too excessive, huh?" I'm in a similar situation, and I'm pretty sure I'll be "downgraded" and maybe even formally reprimanded for attendance. (But…
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>As for implementation, do you do evals based on date of hire or at the same time for everybody? We do our evals based on date of hire. HUD has come down on us and told us to run our local governmental entity more like a business than a governm…
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Calico: Do you find it effective to have the reviews phrased such that specific goals have or haven't been achieved (or even including % achieved!), instead of just talking about general performance, attendance and attitude? We're moving to a Goal…
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We've got a standardized form set that covers each of the salient points of job performance; one form for self appraisal and one for the supervisor. We strongly encourage supervisors to attach a written expansion of the points given per area of ass…
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I tried emailing our compensation plan to the email in your profile, but I got a "delivery to the recipient failed" message. Is there another way to send that to you?
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**This post contains reference to three Replies** Actually, the differential in pay came from the employee himself. We approached him to see if he'd be willing to come back to work on a temporary basis to cover the additional workload summer brings…
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We've got a sixty + page document that includes two evacuation plans (for three of our 350 buildings), an emergency action plan, and our general employee safety manual. I don't know how helpful it would be to you, as our "business" is providing low…
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We mandated DD the middle of last year, giving all employees at the time two months to consider and sign up. Several resisted to the very last day, but finally caved. Most resistors claimed invasion of privacy, believe it or not. We tell all job …
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We do put a maximum on how much they can accrue, and we do have several employees who are "maintaining" at the maximum amount. I doubt any of these will be termed for gross misconduct, so we'd owe them all of the accrued leave anyway. That is, for…
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 01-04-05 AT 03:51PM (CST)[/font][br][br]I may be mistaken, but I believe that the only way we can withhold an accrued benefit (i.e. "earned") in the state of Missouri is in cases of gross misconduct. So…
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I'm concerned about that, too. But this Personnel Policy is also the employee handbook, and I really don't know if our employees would have a clue as to what the professional term Gross Misconduct really means. We've changed our "light duty" polic…
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TITLE 29--LABOR, CHAPTER V--WAGE AND HOUR DIVISION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR; PART 541_DEFINING AND DELIMITING THE EXEMPTIONS FOR EXECUTIVE, Subpart F_Outside Sales Employees Sec. 541.504 Drivers who sell. (a) Drivers who deliver products and a…
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I can't find anything in the CFRs. The Federal Regs do address "board, lodging or other facilities" but they're pretty specific on what's included, and there's nothing about deducting from pay - only that the cost of these things may or may not be …
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Without running the risk of revealing any competition for MLS by telling us the publisher of your newsletter, can you tell us if the newsletter you received was specific to your state or industry, to another state or industry, or generally applied a…
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My folks owned a little country mercantile in Kansas back in the late seventies. Dad would deliberately switch his cent fractions back and forth to reflect the changes in the gas wars. We were 20 miles from the nearest station, so we pretty much s…
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Even though it's not written in our policy, I'd have to say yes - we'd pay the full week even if sick leave isn't available. Of course, this if for the waiting period only. Once wage replacement benefits kick in, they'd be getting the same payment…
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We've got sick leave for our exempt employees, too, so your question hasn't been an issue for us. But I'd think that because federal FLSA exemptions might "override" state-based work comp regs, an employer would have to pay an exempt EE for time of…
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I think it depends on how your state w/c laws work. Our policy is to allow injured employees to use accrued paid time off before w/c benefits start. By the way, Missouri doesn't allow paid time off benefits to be used in conjunction with work comp…
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I think it has to do with the nature of the work. IT professionals frequently have lots of down time between "jobs" (depending on what they actually do). If an employer is willing to pay them a salary regardless of how many hours are logged (lots …