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me: What hours will you be available to work? her: Just a minute. I have a call on the other line.
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Last time I was at Super K-mart there were only a few registers open and the lines were long. I chose the express aisle which happened to be nearest the door. Apparently the security had quit or been laid off because each time a customer leaving the…
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We count hours worked plus Holidays toward OT, but not Vacation or sick time. When I started they counted everything, but we reduced it. I wanted to take out Holidays, too, but was not able to. The rationale was that Holidays are set by the employer…
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Somebody directed me to an article on Salary.com, "2003 Raises Lowest in More than 30 years" by Lena Bottos. You probably don't want to direct folks to Salary.com because it may increase their mistaken sense of injustice if they start looking up inf…
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We get Eve and Day off. With Day falling on Saturday and Eve on Friday, we will observe Day the following Monday. I would rather do it on Thursday, but our biggest customer is observing it on Monday and we have to follow suit.
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You write that the employee has noticed the problem. First, they can't know if there is a "problem" until they do their taxes. Second, it may be a minor inconvenience if they owe money, and you should apologize for that, but the error did not, in an…
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There are two methods allowed by the IRS. The first is a flat 25% tax rate. The second is a little more complicated - when I tested it on some of our employees I found that it caused those making more than 50K to actually pay more than 25% and those…
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If the bonus program is based on last year's profits, I don't think it is a discretionary bonus. If you tie it in to last year's performance review, it is even less discretionary.
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One idea is to use four rating categories, instead of three or five, with no in-between or half ratings. This helps address the middle-marking tendency. Managers often take the middle mark as an easy out. One thing to consider, though, is whether th…
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You wrote that, "this is the first year the CEO wants to enforce this rule." If it has never been enforced it's not really a rule. I think you should treat it like a new rule with an introduction and appropriate warnings. In Illinois, I think that a…
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We give the employees a floating holiday to use at a later date.
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Why would you pay someone to sleep?
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 08-05-03 AT 11:30AM (CST)[/font][p]This will apply to us in 2004 and our VP of Finance decided that we do not need to make any adjustments. His explanation was that the salary is accrued as it is earne…
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just in case you don't already have this, from the GSA [url]http://www.policyworks.gov/org/main/mt/homepage/mtt/perdiem/perd03d.html[/url]
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Search for Foreign Earned Income Exclusion at the IRS website. That should help with your last question.
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That would make it easier, but you would begin the increase in the pay cycle including the effective date, right?
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Thanks for your replies. The employee who debated the point is up for a low-level promotion, and this was my real concern: Is he unable to differentiate what is relevant and what isn't? (mildly bad) Or does he just make things up out of thin air to …
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It's stuck in the Senate. If they make the tax benefit more attractive, more people will use it. If more people use it, the govt will get less tax income. If they get less tax income, they will have to increase some other tax in order to make up for…
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 06-25-04 AT 03:16PM (CST)[/font][br][br]What's wrong with DOL? I only ask because I looked throug my COBRA info when I read your question and most of it is DOL stuff.
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For our 401(k), employees can choose investment options, but the default is MM if they forget to do it, or do it incorrectly. We've just started to allow employees to enroll completely online, and so far I am quite happy with that - no forms at all,…
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Members of a credit union join by investing in a share of the credit union. The share is usually $10 to $50 I think, but that varies by credit union. If the employee becomes a CU member, it is usually up to the employee to invest in that share. The…
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You're not really making her do her 90 days over again. The 90 days are as your employee in eligible status. If she was a temp she was the agency's employee, not yours.
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A first step might be to determine if you actually have any "retirement benefits" at all. The 401(k) has its own rules, many defined by law, and is really independent of a company retirement policy. Profit sharing just ends when an employee terminat…
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1) What are the benefits attached to retirement? 2) What are the service and minimum age requirements for attaining those benefits?
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We cover 90% of the employee premium and 70% of dependent premiums.
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We just got our FAS 106 back and we were clobbered again this year. The money we have to set aside for retiree coverage doubled last year and went up 50% this year. I am surprised that you might increase participation. We're looking for a way to dec…
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Our administrator does that.
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We have LTD with a 180-day waiting period and no STD. We cap Sick Leave at 800 hours. We are shortening the LTD waiting period to 90 days and will reduce the cap to 560 hours, since it is intended to carry employees over until the LTD kicks in.
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[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 10-23-03 AT 02:19PM (CST)[/font][p]Thanks. Do you know where in Section 125 or related publications it says that the employer can not recover funds from an employee, by whatever means? I'm trying to conv…
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When the employee turns 65 they don't automatically become medicare primary. They can't be medicare primary as long as they are employed and have your insurance available. And you can't make yours unavailable based on age. If a retiree is Medicare …