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Poor silly bird....it must see something it thinks is really interesting in your office. Maybe it's fed up with life in the wild and hopes you'll take it in and make a pet out of it!
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Around here we call the State Fish & Game department for animal/bird issues...of course in this part of the world that usually means an injured bald eagle, not a crazy robin!
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I loved George Carlin, and those were some of his best!
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We've had it happen once. An employee with family in a foreign country claimed to have lost a family member, figuring nobody would be able to prove otherwise. She didn't count on how small the world can be, because while she was gone somebody asked …
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Yes, we do check references. The questions we ask are as follows: When did the applicant work for your company? What was the applicant's position/title? The applicant states earnings of $_____. Is that correct? What information can you give concer…
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I love #22 & #25!!!!
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Unfortunately, I've seen this before myself. We've had a couple of people who have claimed "allergies" when they just didn't like the smell of somebody's perfume, or had a personal beef with the other employee. One employee started complaining ab…
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I agree with the others...why isn't this under worker's comp, if they were injured at work?
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Our employee files average about one-half inch thick - some thinner, some much fatter. We do keep everything (with the exception of medical, which goes in a separate file to begin with) in the file until they term, at which time the file is scann…
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In my industry (banking) I don't know that the work-at-home idea has ever been all that popular. So many of our jobs (even outside of the customer service positions) seem to work much better with an actual physical presence in the office during at l…
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I don't think we've ever closed our offices due to bad weather, but our policy states "when operations are officially closed due to emergency conditions, the time off from scheduled work will be paid." And by paid we mean that we will pay them and n…
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I LOVE it! (Probably because I've had a couple of those sorts of conversations with applicants myself! )
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Maybe I'm oversimplifying, but I don't understand why it would be counted as FMLA if the employee actually swapped shifts with someone in order to cover the time off. I mean, it seems like once they've swapped shifts, then they've completely taken t…
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I would think that if he swapped shifts with someone else to cover the absence, then according to the work schedule, he technically isn't supposed to be there during those five weeks he'll be off after surgery, because he'll be working a different s…
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Agreed that this is a qualifying event...we just had the same thing happen here so it's pretty fresh in my mind!
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"Thank you for your interest in the position. However, we have certain minimum requirements in order for an applicant to be qualified for this position, and while you have some good qualifications, you do not have those that are required."
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Thanks for your replies. We don't have a written maternity leave policy outside of FMLA and since FMLA doesn't distinguish between mothers and fathers I don't think we'll need to do anything as far as changing or adding to our policy. It'll just be …
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We are also a financial institution, and while we don't [U]require[/U] it, we do suggest two consecutive weeks away from work each year. It can be vacation, sick, training, or a combination of those and any other kinds of leave. It's only considered…
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I would send a follow-up e-mail, and then if they still didn't open it I would mail a copy to them at their personal mailing address.
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We have two different types of part-time employees here: regular part-time, who must work at least 20 hours per week and are eligible for all benefits, including holiday pay, and on-call part-time, who work fewer than 20 hours per week and receive n…
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We've never had this happen, but we would require custody/guardianship papers for FMLA also.
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I love it!
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Very cute! When I was a kid, we always used an angel on our tree that my mom had made out of a doll. The doll had those very round doll eyes that made her look perpetually shocked. I wasn't very old before I decided that the reason she looked tha…
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We don't use it, but on the USCIS website it clearly states that it is free of charge.
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If you do not sponsor an HSA plan yourself, I don't see how you could allow an employee to make pre-tax contributions to an HSA. One of the primary aspects of an HSA is that the person must be enrolled in an HSA-compatible high deductible health pla…
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We do not routinely give increases for obtaining a degree, but for obtaining certain specific certifications or licenses, we allow up to a 5% increase, at the supervisor's discretion.
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We've always insisted on documentation when an employee says their doctor has prescribed bed rest, and then a release when they are supposed to be allowed to come back. We've had a couple of people who have wanted to continue working after they've b…
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Who are you using? Verifications Inc. was so slow, maybe that's the main reason ADP looks good (and the price is less than half what Verifications Inc was charging). If there's somebody even better, I wouldn't mind taking a look at them. We use Re…
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I really like ADP for payroll, so when they offered me a great discount to try their background checks several years ago, I tried it but ended up going back to our original company because I didn't like it. It took longer to get the results back fro…
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I thought all of the tips were pretty good. I have (unfortunately) had quite a bit of experience helping managers and supervisors deal with difficult employees, and I have used most of the tips in the article. I always tell them to focus on actio…