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In all the support orders I've dealt with, it says there may be additional support due from bonuses and other lump sum payments, but when I've inquired about it, it has always been dependent upon whether or not the employee has any arrearages on the…
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All of the child support garnishments I have ever dealt with were strictly based on a monthly amount due, but if it were my employee and they wanted to change their tax withholdings on a bonus like that, I wouldn't necessarily assume that they were …
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HR/payroll (that would be me) handles it here. I prefer to track it myself rather than ask the supervisors to do it, and since I keep calendar spreadsheets to track attendance for all employees anyhow, it makes the most sense for me to do it.
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I've got to agree. I know quite a few people who have voluntarily anglicized their names, generally to make it something more familiar to their co-workers and others they deal with, but that has always seemed to me like someone felt that the English…
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I didn't catch any part of the balloon story while it was happening, just read about it after the fact. It sounded suspect to me from the beginning and I was really glad to hear that they seem to have figured out that it was a hoax. I saw the vide…
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We have always allowed employees to dress up on Halloween, and some of our departments also have costume/department decorating/pumpkin carving contests. (We also used to have a big family Halloween party every year, but stopped doing that when we so…
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Until some sort of a beam shoots out of it and destroys a city, I guess I'll believe the cloud formation theory.
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We have a number of locations that are remote from headquarters, so I have all our locations either fax or scan & e-mail their time sheets every week, but then I request that they send the originals by mail and those are what I keep according to…
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I don't have any personal experience with getting restraining orders, but I have known people who have, and it was only "easy" in the sense that they had already been the victim of domestic violence and had called the police. Then it was pretty much…
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Yes, that was very unnerving. I started looking for hidden cameras or microphones.
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We just went through our annual renewal, and originally we had a 14% increase in premiums, but we made a very minor change to the prescription drug portion of our benefit (increasing a couple of the co-pays by $10 each) that took the increase down t…
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[quote=NaeNae55;717822]Is this employee eligible for FMLA or a state equivalent? Does he have other leave available to him?[/quote] Does FMLA apply to domestic partners?
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We were all excited when Wal Mart decided to come to our town. Of course, you have to understand, we live on a island with no roads connecting us to the mainland, so we can't just drive to the nearest area that has one. And so many of our local stor…
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My mother used to have horrible bouts of vertigo, and from what I saw of that, it seems like it would qualify as a "serious health condition" under FMLA. When she had it, sometimes for days, she could barely move without vomiting, and sometimes even…
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Our overall plan balance is back up close to what it was before 4th quarter 2008 also. Yes, that does include contributions that have been made since then, but it's still nice to see the balance at around a million more dollars than it was at its lo…
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Usually the tearful conversations I participate in are because someone else made them cry, not because I did. I haven't really even had one of those in a while, although I came close a couple of weeks ago when somebody called me on the verge of te…
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We don't have a written policy, those sorts of sites are simply blocked so nobody can access them at work, as are many other non-work-related websites.
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Yeah, I had my kids when I was 17 and 21 so I understand breeding young. My son who was born when I was 21 waited until he was 21 to reproduce so that helped, anyhow, or I might have much older grandkids than I do. We cheated a bit on the grandchi…
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I've said it before, Nae, and I'll say it again: you are only a couple of days older than me, therefore you are WAY too young to be a great-grandma! (I've been kind of freaked out lately because my oldest grandchild just turned 12.) Anyhow, congr…
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They make that stuff that you melt in the microwave that you can use to dip things like strawberries in that sets up pretty well, I wonder if that would work for bacon also? I'd think it would have to be something that would set up pretty solid beca…
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Yeah, Nae, you're just perverted! It was funny, a while back one of my co-workers was looking at a list of general ledger accounts that I use for insurance stuff and she was shocked to see one that was titled "Employee STD". I told her that the f…
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[quote=NaeNae55;717627] It was a pretty large company and the plan had tremendous losses as soon word got out and every pregnant employee signed up as soon as she was about 6 months along and then dropped it when she went back to work.[/quote] I a…
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That certainly hasn't been our experience with our short-term disability insurance. The only time (in 20 years of working with it) I've seen a claim denied was when they found out the doctor had said that the surgery he'd done was the result of a wo…
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Company policy here is to confirm the dates the person worked for us, position(s) held, and whether or not they are eligible for rehire. Of course, as bethk said, you can always give a simple yes or no answer quite a bit of weight, just by the way y…
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Same here...I've never heard of WorkSteps. A few times in my career in HR I've asked about the idea of that sort of testing but the powers that be weren't particularly crazy about the idea so I've never pursued it any further.
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My sister was telling me about seeing chocolate-covered bacon on t.v. recently. I have a little bit of trouble wrapping my brain around that concept, even though I love both bacon and chocolate.
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[quote=ACU Frank;717491]The same assistant manager has a history of poor judgment involving pregnant co-workers and outrageous 'maternal' missteps. One of her direct reports lost a toddler in a car accident a few years ago. Last year, assistant ma…
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A few of our departments allow their employees to use their MP3 players to listen to music while they're working, so I suppose it wouldn't be too big a stretch to say that some might listen to books on tape while working, also. I guess as long as th…
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Wow, Frank, that's an interesting HR rule the assistant manager made up. After working in HR as long as I have, I often think I've heard it all, but then somebody manages to come along and raise the level of stupidity to a new high.
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[quote=NaeNae55;717469] Employee says, "Good morning" to me too often.[/quote] I've heard something similar; the person complained that the other employee was too "perky" when they said good morning. Yes, I know, overly-perky people can be ir…