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I had two employees squabbling over aluminum cans about six months ago. Both are long time employees (one will hit 50 years of service in September!) One would acuse the other of stealing cans that she had collected, and the other would acuse the fi…
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Welcome to the wonderful world of intermittent leave! In addition to what the other posters have mentioned, there's another little passage in the regs (29 CFR 825.114 (e)) that states: "Absences attributable to incapacity under paragraphs (a)(2)(i…
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We use 12-hour shifts, 5:30 to 5:30. The "first half" shifts work every Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, plus alternating Wednesdays. The "second half" group works every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, plus the other Wednesdays. Seems to work pretty wel…
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Well, how about this one - we had a highly-paid Electrical Mechanical Technician Apprentice who earned himself a disciplinary suspension. However, we were short-staffed in the maintenance department at the time, so the department manager gave him an…
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250 union employees, 40 office employees (who benefit from the holiday schedule in the union contract). We run 24/7, but the union contract specifies that holidays falling on Saturday will be celebrated on Friday, and those falling on Sunday will be…
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Are you sure this guy isn't just snoopy? Sheeesh - not even the FMLA requires that an employee release medical records, state a diagnosis on the medical certification, or even see a doctor for every absence for a chronic serious health condition! I…
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Thanks to everyone for your input on this! Here's how it went down - the supervisor is still employed, but his privilege to drive the company truck has been permanently rescinded. He received a one-week suspension without pay, which will be followed…
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Our safety manager got a "wild hair", so to speak, and decided to implement hair testing for pre-employment WITHOUT telling either the plant manager or the HR department. Needless to say, the usual 24-hour turn-around on the urinalysis suddenly disa…
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The AIB has published Consolidated Standards for Food-Contact Packaging Manufacturing Facilities since the 1950s. They are a "tool" to permit food-contact packaging operations to evaluate product safety risks within their operations. AIB also promul…
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The FMLA angle definitely needs to be looked at here. If you're subject to FMLA and the employee meets the service and hours criteria, the vague comment about cancer is enough to put you on notice that FMLA may apply. HOWEVER - even after an employ…
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I agree! Contract notwithstanding, I can't imagine denying three days of bereavement leave for each of the employee's deceased family members. It's difficult enough to deal with the death of a loved one without the added burden of feeling pressured …
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Our application uses a two-part question to address the first issue: Are you a US Citizen? Yes/No If "no", do you have the legal right to work in the US? Yes/No We do ask for military service, including dates - I may suggest to our corporate gurus…
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Thanks to all of you for responding so promptly - with the help of your input, I can take it from here!
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I agree with the previous posters who question the necessity of the Diploma/GED for entry level jobs. This could result in a "disparate impact" for native American applicants, many of whom you recognize as lacking this credential. However, if your …
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Our 2004 renewal originally came in at a 20% increase. However, our union contract requires that if the increase is over 15%, we have to negotiate plan changes, contributions, carrier changes, etc. Our account exec has been torn to bits by our union…
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In one of my former lives, I worked for a fairly large family-owned company. The retired president always loved to say "Nepotism is fine, as long as you keep it in the family!" Where I work now, it's like a soap opera - one employee was married to …
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BINGO! This is the reason some policies are a nightmare to develop and administer! I once had a manager who insisted that all policies be vague enough to allow lots of room for case-by-case interpretation - makes it tough to be consistent! We don'…
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I used to work for a company that constructed antenna towers all over the country. The tower crews operated out of field offices, but many didn't have permanent mailing addresses (they lived in motor homes that took them from one site to another). …
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 08-22-03 AT 07:19AM (CST)[/font][p]I thought that this was going to be another discussion of crop tops and capri pants! Yes, we do - we have about 250 employees. I just noticed that I seem to have move…
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Yup, I started getting these yesterday - must have deleted 60 of them from 11:00 am on. So far, only two have come in today. Most of mine looked like they came from government entities, but one appeared to have come from a former fellow employee!
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I guess I'm really out of it - I keep reading these posts on capri pants and remembering how much I hated them when my mom used to make me wear them when I was a child - some 45 years ago! As far as I'm concerned, pants either need to come down to y…
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This has been a really lively discussion, with many great points being made on either side of the issue! I am a Christian, I keep a Bible at work (in my desk drawer), and don't often discuss my faith on the job. However, it's amazing the number of …
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Lara, You did the right thing! You handled things in a very professional manner by researching solutions to the problem and presenting them to your boss. When met with the proverbial "immovable object", you wisely cut your losses and moved on. And,…
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According to the legal department in our company, it would be a mandatory subject of bargaining to force an employee to utilize paid vacation concurrently with FMLA leave. We've got this on our agenda for negotiations in 2005. (We currently permit e…
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There are exceptions - I can get out of bed and be ready to leave for work 20 minutes later (30 minutes if I have to dry my hair), and be freshly showered, made up, and neatly dressed. My spouse, on the other hand, needs to be out of bed a full 90 m…
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Here's the situation I'm in the middle of right now ... We went through a permanent reduction in workforce effective July 5, which put 38 mostly good, but low seniority, employees on the street. The following week, on Thursday, three machine opera…
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This is the first place I've ever worked where Payroll is handled in the HR department! It works for us, because the payroll person not only tracks & data enters new hires, terminations, wage changes, etc., but is also responsible for the rather…
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Frankly, unemployment benefits would be the last thing I would debate about with this employee - sometimes it's just good business sense to get rid of an employee, and unemployment charges are a small price to pay. I wouldn't prolong the agony. We …
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Whatever - You got it right on the nose! We all need to acknowledge that "human" is part of our job title and duties! psrcello
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Whatever - Everything is in the wording of the union contract? Lucky you, I think! All of the union contracts I've ever worked with are deliberately vague, with lots of room for "interpretation" (i.e., grievances) on both sides! Our attendance pol…