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YIKES. I presume you all went through the necessary FMLA paperwork. Otherwise, his FMLA would begin now and then you would have him on intermittent leave. Can he not perform an essential job function during his recovery? I went through a similar…
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I don't have experience moving from a 4 day work week to a 5 day work week, but from what I have read in the papers, people either love it or hate right from the bat. I think waiting a whole year to test out whether you like it or not is a bit exce…
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I actually don't give reasons when I terminate people. I believe that no termination (for cause) should come as a surprise. By the time I get around to terminating someone, they know exactly that it is coming. If I do have that situation where th…
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is she trying to recruit them to her new place of employment? If they don't want to talk to her, the current employees can be adults and take care of it themselves. It is VERY easy to confuse being a good HR person with being a "mother."
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AZHR, I empathize with you greatly. When I came onboard here, I fought to put a stop to unfettered comp time. As a happy medium, when manager want to approve comp time, they have to write a memo for the file justifying the comp time award and givi…
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be really careful with subjective terms like negative attitude. If you can quantify what is a negative attitude, then yes, you can definitely deal with it through the disciplinary process. We had a former employee who seemed to spread her toxic at…
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well, for what it is worth, I interviewed with a law firm back in law school who invited us to bring our spouses/significant others/parents to the event to the first half of the interview process. It was a total, you may never see your loved one ag…
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I work for a construction/landscape company. Our hourly/field employees get 1 week vacation after 3 years of service, and 3 days sick leave after 1 year of service. Our salaried employees get 1 week during years 1 and 2, 2 weeks years 3-5 and 3 we…
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we roll over as much vacation as people want, however if they leave the company, they are capped at how much vacation they are paid out at the end of the year. Just because they have the vacation, doesn't mean we are going to approve it.
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gender identity protections (if applicable) don't differentiate between transsexuals, transgendered or cross dressers. If gender identity is covered by your state nondiscrimination laws, you can't force someone to use one particular bathroom over t…
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3 years is REALLY old for a laptop technology-wise. Woof, now ubiquitous technology like bluetooth connectivity, dual hard drives, increase number of USB ports and size have come a long way. My parents are fine the laptop we bought for them about…
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Woof. As a 28 year old, I am more than annoyed with everyone blaming the younger generation. My biggest problem employee group are people in their late 30's to mid 40's who have been in the carrot culture for too long and now have a feeling of enti…
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PraiseStar, I totally know what I think you are driving at. In my workplace, I think people expect a carrot to do even the simplest tasks. I knew I had hit a new low when I had to do a raffle just to get people to fill out their open enrollment for…
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depending on the nature of your business/employees, you may want to consider concierge services. Best morale booster ever was when my old company picked up the delivery fee for peapod and paid the surcharge for a drycleaners to come to and from the…
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you have to be really careful with your state law. FMLA has an exception to FLSA allowing salaried workers to be paid for the hours worked without jeopardizing their salaried status. I am not at all familar with your state law. CA is a bit more gi…
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my supervisor prior to the re-org had a tendancy to send emails that were so short and to the point they approached snarky. I brought it up in a jovial manner saying that there are times when I shut down my computer after reading one of her emails …
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combine this with the guy who is suing the florist for exposing his affair and you can really see the breakdown in society! (for those of you who don't already know, this lovely gentleman sent his mistress flowers, claimed he was promised confident…
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we have a few employees with telecommuting arrangements. One of the key questions is whether they have personal obligations outside of work that would make it difficult for them to dedicate the time and effort to work during our core hours. I ratt…
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I am beginning to think that crocs should be banned everywhere except the garden (or on a boat).
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As vile as I personally think smoking is, I have to agree with HRinLA. We have a lot of misuse of smoke breaks. I don't care if you go outside to smoke or you socialize at the water cooler for half an hour each day. What I do care about is whether y…
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We have a lot of interest in our company in starting an HSA but our broker told us to wait a year or two until some of the customer service issues were resolved. We live in a coast (well close enough for there to be weekend beach traffic) and so ma…
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But what if you are trying to create a moonlighting policy? I am drafting one as we speak. We work in the construction industry and there are all sorts of issues with people working off hours, like worker's compensation, using company equipment an…