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From Florida Statute: 532.01 Payment by check, draft, or other order for payment.--Any order, check, draft, note, memorandum, or other acknowledgment of indebtedness issued in payment of wages or salary due or to become due must be negotiable and …
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I just made an inquiry earlier this week to our testing laboratory and learned that they will randomly select for us for free. We simply must provide them with an accurate employee census monthly, choose one of our testing schedules they offer (mon…
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This point has been belabored, but I'm currently awaiting network access and thought I check out the forum for a few minutes. It sounds like what your policy allows or dictates is the issue, unless there is contract-specific verbiage. There are …
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This is an interesting thread. I have LOA policy issues on my list on things to do (been there a while). When I stepped into my position in 2001 (well after 1993), I found much variety in LOA management. It was basically being left to individual…
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I'm excited and think my ship will finally come in. If I don't make my fortune off the extra $1/hour, it will be from unemployment/social assistance I will get after my employer has to let me go with the rest of the staff it can no longer afford. …
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We purchase some posters through G Neil as well, and they are usually 'Johnny on the Spot' with an offer to sell. I haven't seen anything come through from them yet either.
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We are pretty heavily regulated on criminal background histories in our organization because of the ages of some of our clients (children in daycare and seniors in long-term care). Even with the heavy regulation, there are forgiveness opportunities…
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I have to agree with Don D and Pork. You have a responsibility to your discipline and your corporation. You should never fall into the trap of trying to guess what your president will or won't do without giving him/her a chance to perform (or fail…
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Our family policy is above $900. A 10% increase (a very real possibility) will push us to $1,000 if we don't change our policy. And we are in a very rural setting, somewhat economically depressed (no palm trees) part of Florida.
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Don't overwork yourself trying to convince your CEO. If the decision really belongs to the CEO and is to go ahead with event, be ready for the outfall. If everyone is adult, you'll see nothing more than a hostile undercurrent, and the real action …
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You are absolutely right about the character part and the empathy part, and the value of both also permeate every part of a lifestyle and can last for generations.
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Having been there and done that, I would say that the stink is probably already there. The party will bring it to a public forum. I think it would be wise to discourage the event, or else be ready to manage some PDC (public display of conflict). …
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Ah, the joys of working for a family-owned business. Sounds like your loyalty may be to do what is fair, which may not be what you are getting a chance to do. If I'm not mistaken, I sense some bitterness or frustration or something running betwe…
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I agree that there are times when allowing benefits to be paid is a smart move and also agree that the option should be the decision of the company. My comments were not really intended to criticize but to encourage some self examination on the p…
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Not sure I want to know the story and not really asking for it to be divulged, but my natural curiosity wonders why you want the employee to get the benefits. I may be speaking way out of turn here, but I have a tendency to do that sometimes. This…
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Sorry for the confusion in the post and appreciate your input. There are a handful of forumites in whose responses I place a lot of value. Yours is among them. What I described is not a scenario I have seen, just a recurring nightmare. My gut re…
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You must be making the rounds today. The whole world economy looks a little more shakey to me now, and I'm not sure I want to keep the pork down that I had for lunch today. Somebody on the farm may not have had a removable cast.
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We run the two concurrently if an employee is unable to work while recovering from OTJ injury. If the doctor certified that the employee is unable to work for a time that satisfies the FMLA definition, then FMLA can apply. As it turns out, my posi…
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Found this recent info at eeoc.gov: What is the definition of "applicant" in the context of the Internet and related electronic technologies? In order for an individual to be an applicant in the context of the Internet and related electronic data p…
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Our practice is closer to what Don describes. Our response to the inquirer is that we release nothing except hire date, term date (if terminated), and job title without an employee's signed authorization describing what we can release and to whom w…
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I agree with the reasonable part, and I would have agreed with the rest of your statement until I had experience with a prior clerical position in my department (HR) just over a year ago. I am now convinced that some people can disguise their real …
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Yea, we had that as well, and praise God, suspended the 'probationary wage increase' 1 to 2 years ago. Our finding was that the subjectivity of evaluations led to a whole nother set of problems that had to do with disparate wages. Managers were in…
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This is an interesting thread. Our organization uses "probationary period," defined in policies I inherited as a 90-day period after hire. We also have a 90-day period after a promotion or job change that is called a probationary period, but its …
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I agree with Don and will take it one step further. Tests used as a pre-employment tools to determine employment eligibility do not fall under the umbrella of HIPAA, though the information they yield is private and not to be shared, much like worke…
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I agree with the rest of the posts: let your action this time be consistent with prior positive drug results. If that has been termination in the past, then terminate now. Based on your post, you know what your next step has to be. In nearly 3 y…
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Thanks for your input. You picked up on all the points I did, which gives me an affirmation today that I must be doing something right as an HR professional, at least sometimes. I feel like I'm in a mine field this week because of other unrelated …
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Do you ever feel like your brain spirals out of control when you try to think through some HR issues? You're moving through some of the topics I was thinking about earlier. Reading your thought trail makes me think of the super bouncy Superballs I…
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Thanks for your information. The memo addresses exactly the issue of my question, the 1,250 hours part. Given that memo and the prior information provided by Don D about the 2-year period of extended deadlines, am I correct to understand that we…
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Because some of you asked, I'll take a minute to update our situation. Things took a turn toward the sticky yesterday. I must have been living in a dream when I thought they wouldn't. The run down is this: 1. Employee is no call/no show for t…
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Thanks for your insight. It's as valuable as Don D's references. I am truly trying to buy us some time to ensure we get things right. I don't expect to have any resistance to granting FMLA in this case, and I agree it may be the best all around r…