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Going to counseling while going through a divorce does not necessarily mean that the individual is clinically depressed and would qualify for FMLA. I have had several employees who have chosen to do counseling during/after particularly messy divorce…
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I agree with what the others have said so far. We have had some spectacularly unqualified applicants for the positions they were applying for, so those pretty much always hit the "do not interview" file right away. We had one applicant for an IT pos…
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We were on a party line when I was a kid (way back in the 60's) but I didn't realize they'd still had them in some areas as recently as the 90's! I was talking about party lines lately with somebody else who remembered them and the 35-year-old si…
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My DIL loved this....she's going to share it with all her teacher friends!
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I have to pass this along to my daughter-in-law....she's a paraprofessional at an elementary school, working with special needs students, some of whom can be aggressive and/or violent. I'm sure some days about all she can do is pray!
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Was the spouse admitted to the hospital for inpatient care?
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Our state DOL publishes that sort of thing on their website, and I assume the federal DOL publishes the federal retention rules also. Some of the retention periods are going to vary, depending on what state and even what industry you are in.
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We do not have our exempt employees fill out time sheets. I have always heard the same thing, that if you require your exempt employees to fill out time sheets, you are essentially treating them as non-exempt, which could then jeopardize their exemp…
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Our employees are allowed to carry over up to one-half of their annual number of vacation days from one year to the next.
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Too funny, Dutch!
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Personally, I don't think telling both of them together is appropriate.
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Using the official definition of a serious health condition [I]("a[/I] [I]condition that involves either an overnight stay in a medical care facility, or continuing treatment by a health care provider. The continuing treatment requirement may be met…
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I've run into this several times. It's generally because a former employee is applying for a position with a government agency. (I know my sister had this sort of face-to-face verification done when she applied for a job with the Secret Service.) It…
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Here's ours: "Employees of the company are permitted to use the company's equipment for occasional, non-company purposes with permission from their direct supervisors. Nevertheless, an employee has no right of privacy regarding any information or …
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I got a call several months ago from what turned out to be a scammer...I assumed at first it was a telemarketer so I just said "not interested" and hung up without waiting for any kind of reply. The jerk called me right back and proceeded to lecture…
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Years ago my mom used to get lots of calls from the "handicapped selling special long-lasting lightbulbs" thing. I gotta give her credit, when they kept pestering her she would, in her best "little old lady voice", say things like "Oh, bless your he…
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We don't have separate written guidelines for this, but that is because it is part of our overall payroll process. The funds come out of the employees' paychecks, and on payday they are wire transferred to our 401(k) vendor by the same person who pr…
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We do not have a "romance policy" per se, but we address dating in our policy regarding the hiring of relatives: "[I](company) reserves the right to take prompt action if an actual or potential conflict of interest arises involving individuals inv…
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In most of our departments, if an employee gives two weeks' notice, they are allowed to work out their two weeks, but in certain departments and with certain positions, supervisors prefer to let the employee go immediately and pay them their two wee…
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Our wages are going up about 2% this year. And as for our bonuses, we never know until we see at year-end how we did for the year. Last year bonuses either stayed the same or went down slightly from the year before. As far as where I was working …
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This isn't exactly crazy, because we are a bank, but back in the 80's we had a mock bank robbery to prepare us for the possibility of what we'd do or how we'd react in the event of the real thing. It was pretty intense, complete with off-duty police…
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Our family has always made up words or used words in different ways, amongst themselves, but I agree there are places for that sort of thing (and a freshman composition paper is not one of them)! One of our current favorites is actually a grammati…
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We also tie appraisals to salary increases. Every six months we have a semi-annual salary review period, which allows managers/supervisors to request merit increases for their employees at that time. If there is not a current appraisal on file for a…
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Thanks for a great laugh to start an otherwise dreary Monday!
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Nae, I'm afraid I can't offer you much help, just my sincere sympathy that you have to come up with a way to address this situation! :angel: It would be easier if it were an issue of body odor caused by poor hygiene, because then you could approac…
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[quote=sonny;724027]Like Nae irregardless drives me NUTS[/quote] Me, too. I used to work in a cubicle next to someone who loved that word. She managed to work it into nearly every conversation, and I was ready to jump right over the cubicle wall and…
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Being in Alaska, a lot of our high school mascots that our sports teams competed against were pretty cool, things like different types of bears and wolves. Ours was (and still is) a [U]salmon[/U]. Granted, yes, there are a lot of salmon around here,…
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I'm with you on the word usage, Nae. One of the ones that bugs me a lot isn't specifically an employee/HR thing, but I hear it a lot from employees because we are a bank: "safety deposit box". The correct term is "[U]safe[/U] deposit box", so named …
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We have several male employees who wear neckties by choice, which I find interesting, as it certainly isn't required per our dress code. Our CEO rarely even wears button-down shirts anymore, he generally wears polo shirts & khakis. I've often…