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I would say you have to be VERY careful. Are all the whites offered similar jobs and salaries while all the blacks are offered jobs at a considerable paycut? I don't think that anyone would say offering someone a job at half their pay is "reasonab…
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Check your state laws. Your policy wouldn't fly at all in California where we are not allowed a "use it or lose it" policy. It also sounds like you are treating personal days as vacation days - or are they sick days? If personal days are just anot…
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Although I agree that this gets a little silly, these teenagers are employees, not our children. As employees you expect them to behave in a professional manner including proper dress, makeup, hairstyles, etc. If they want to rebell, they can quit…
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Don, I think we are dating ourselves, because I remember that they were embarassing too. But if that is what the kids are doing nowadays, I think it would be appropriate to have a talk with them and let them know it is bothering some of the residen…
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You might want to have an attorney take a look at the wording in that first document, but I think the employee would have a strong arguement for getting the bonus and package if they stay on to Date X. If you don't give it, you could have a lawsuit…
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I'd like to hear others chime in on this since I'm no attorney, but it seems to me that if you have already documented in writing that if the key employee agrees to stay to date X they will get a stay on bonus and severance package that you have to …
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We also require the employee to continue paying their portion of the benefits. If they fail to pay the premium, we would cancel coverage due to non-payment of premium and start COBRA then.
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What do your policies say? Do other people on LOA's generally accrue vacation? You might also check with the EDD. We were very slow and went to partial work weeks before deciding to do a RIF last year. You can coordinate with the EDD to pay part…
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Our rule is that we give out dates of employment and last position held. If someone quotes salary to us we will verify if it is in the right "ball park", but we will not volunteer salary. That it.
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You have some very good points Don - I hadn't thought of all those other professions. We finally got away from the whole uniform thing (we are a production facility) and gave our employees a "clothing allowance" instead. We used to provide uniform…
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Maybe its just my crazy state of California, but I thought if the company REQUIRES the uniform, that it needed to be provided free of charge to the employee - just like any other equipment required to perform the job. The maintenance of the cleanli…
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We have cameras installed at various locations throughout the plant. These aren't hidden cameras - the employees know about them. It has helped to control theft because even though we can't film everything, they know that they might be caught. We…
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Is Maria doing both her Auditor/Treasury work AND Customer Service work? If she is doing two jobs, then she could well be eligible for additional compensation. I assume the other customer service people aren't qualified to also perform the auditor…
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I don't see a problem at all. We usually post our opportunities in house in order to afford promotional opportunities for our current employees before we resort to the outside. Letting your employees have the first crack at new jobs is good employ…
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How great is your need for people? If you still need to fill several openings, you might suggest your boss call the owner and let him know that you will not solicit any of his workers. He can reiterate that the owner is a valued customer and you d…
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We don't receive anything more than the overall "pass or fail" recommendation. You are right that more details are really none of our business. It is good to have the doctor's office keep this information, however, so they have a baseline in case …
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Some actions by their very nature deserve immediate termination. Holding the rummage sale after you specifically told her you didn't want to do this as it would jeopardize your clients I think is sufficient grounds for termination. If you lose the…
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I agree. Even though the injury is not work related, it doesn't mean that he can be fired. The FMLA could very well kick in and you need to give him the 12 weeks to recover. Definitely check with your labor lawyer on this.
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Yes, we did have a "no host" bar where employees could purchase drinks if they wanted them. We thought that was a step removed from actually purchasing the drinks ourselves either via an open bar or drink tickets. It is a non-issue now that we are…
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Way back when (years ago) we hosted the bar. Then we switched to two drink tickets per person. Yeah, there were some complaints, but everyone was OK with it. Then a few years later we cancelled the drink tickets saying too much liability and ever…
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If you serve alcohol you can be held liable - even if you stop at the "two drink tickets". We decided to try for the happy medium. We do have alcohol available for purchase, but the company does not pay for any alcohol. We have found that if they…
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Mel - one other thing to keep in mind is that you are eliminating the POSITION, not the person. If you determine you only need 3 programmers and you currently have 4, you would only narrowly look at those 4 to determine who should go. As Don menti…
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Well, I guess I would 1) Talk to the accused "beer drinker" so you can duly say you've "investigated" the situation. Let them have the heads up that people are watching, so to be careful with what they do at lunch. Forewarn what would happen if th…
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Non-competes are illegal in the state of California. You would not be able to enforce one here, so why get the employees riled up over something that isn't enforceable anyway? You need to get more information and go back to you CEO armed with cour…
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I wouldn't go there. We have had a few RIF's, and when business picked up again we wanted to hire back some of our experienced workers. Just because they were caught in the RIF didn't mean they weren't good workers. If you start picking and choos…
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Perhaps summer isn't busy, but another time of year is? Sometimes these things all work out in the end and come later on all of you will be leaving on time and this person will be staying late. Or if things are slow in that department, is there wo…
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If you only post your jobs internally and have a predominately caucasian work force, then you will be receiving predominately caucasian referrals/applicants. There are many community organizations that assist minorities in finding jobs who would lo…
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Ditto the above. In California, an employee can quit without any notice at all and we would still be required to pay out their accrued vacation. Check your local state laws.
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It sounds like you have a lot of documentation going - you've placed him on 45 day probation for not following procedures, you've warned him about his tardiness which is consistent with your policy, and you've caught him using the company Fed Ex acc…