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New Employment Laws Take Effect in California

The time has come to dust off the employee handbook and update it with new employment laws that affect businesses throughout California. The state's 14.6 million workers come out as the biggest winners from legislative changes. They will see benefits rise and certain rights expand from legislation passed in 2002 or from earlier laws that had provisions for 2003, employment law experts say. The most-talked-about legislation of 2002, Family Temporary Disability Insurance u more commonly known as paid family leave u benefits employees and will be funded by them as well. This legislation, SB 1661, has caused the most confusion

Compensation battles inflict new wounds on 9/11 families

The million-dollar federal payments that Congress designed to help the nearly 3,000 families of people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have sparked feuds within hundreds of the families. Take, for example, the family of Robert Cirri, a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police lieutenant. Before 9/11, Cirri, 39, lived in Nutley, N.J., with his wife, Eileen Cirri, and her three children from a previous marriage. His own three teenagers from two previous relationships lived with their mothers. Relations were harmonious. "We never had children of our own together, but we all got along," says Eileen

Californians Find Slow Road to Obtain Workers’ Compensation

Sharron Lockwood easily bursts into tears when she talks about how the workers' compensation system has left her family in a tangled web of bureaucrats, lawyers, insurance adjusters and paperwork. "It's appalling what they do to people," Lockwood said. A year ago, Lockwood's husband, Bruce, was run over by an excavator while working at a road construction site. The Wilton man struggled for a month to save his leg, but it had to be amputated. He and his wife are now waging an even bigger fight to get his workers' compensation benefits. The family has had to battle insurers and

Paid family leave law highlights

WHAT SOUVENIR: During the past year, the legislature has an action that could pay up to $ 250 per week for up to five weeks if people should care for a new child, including children adopted. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM: Benefits are expected to begin in October 2009. A task force was established last year to decide who would run the program, such as costs to a minimum, and how they pay, and their recommendations to the legislature this year. But after discussing several ideas, including taxing soft drinks or workers to pay members of the Task Force, which did

Speaking Out on Why “The World Can’t Wait”

Bites are quick worldcantwait.org with different perspectives on why the Bush administration needs to be pushed. Read these reports (and more) on worldcantwait.org and you hear a sound explanation historian Howard Zinn [link to the web version]. Fr Aaron Archer, Rector, St-Jean-Baptiste, RO, Spring Valley, NY; Fr Luis Barrios, St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Harlem; Fr Earl Kooperkamp, Pastor, St. Mary's Epsicopal Church, Harlem, the Rev. George W. Webber, President Emeritus, New York Theological Seminary: ... We all know the litany of abuses that call for the action of our most demanding heavens: Immoral and illegal war

Getting Two Bites at the Compensation Apple

The $108 million award by a Texas jury against the Monsanto Company to the family of a chemical worker who died of leukemia (news story, Dec. 13) points up one of the strangest anomalies in today's liability crisis: The workers' compensation system, originally intended to replace tort liability for on-the-job injuries, gives plaintiffs two bites at the compensation apple. Workers' compensation is usually rationalized as a deal that benefits workers and employers. Workers benefit because standards of causation are relaxed, so that more claims get paid and paid more quickly. Employers benefit because awards are not so high as juries

Interview Dos and Don`ts, CNNfn

ALI VELSHI, CNNfn ANCHOR, YOUR MONEY: I really don`t work well in groups. I have a tendency to run late for everything. And that volunteer group on my resume? Well, I only helped out for about an hour one Saturday last year. These are all kinds of things you just shouldn`t say in a job interview. There are also things that prospective employers shouldn`t say to you in an interview. There are certain questions that are absolutely illegal to ask in an interview. Michael Karpeles is an employment attorney and a partner at Goldberg Kohn. He joins me now from

The Orlando Sentinel, Fla., Jobs Column

My husband is a salaried employee at a doctor's office, and he typically works between 50 and 60 hours a week. Despite the fact he is neither a supervisor nor a manager, he is never paid overtime. He recently took a couple of days off for a family emergency and was docked about a third of his weekly pay. When he asked why his pay was docked when he doesn't get paid for his overtime hours, the doctor replied that as a salaried employee he is not entitled to overtime. Is it legal to dock a salaried Source : accessmylibrary.com

204 firms punished for flouting labour laws

Doha • The Ministry of Labour has made a stern warning to some 204 different companies because of the violation of labour law provisions and the treatment stopped with them, until it is fully compliant with legislation. The companies have been set for the action during a series of surprise raids, labour inspectors between 23 and March 27 to examine their compatibility with the new labour law. The law provides, health and the stringent safety conditions for workers in case of the reserve work, companies in the field, as well as construction sites and other workplaces. "With these companies were

The do’s and don’ts for writing an employee handbook

Do things by "the book" or risk having "the book" thrown at you. Apparently, this book carries some weight, particularly when it comes to the employee handbook or office manual that spells out company policies and procedures. If employees do not abide by the book, they could face disciplinary action or termination. For companies, the price could be even higher in that they could be hit with expensive and time consuming lawsuits. Given the seriousness of an employee handbook misstep, some telephone companies and cooperatives--particularly the smaller ones--assume their operations will be simpler, and that they may be less liable

Futures Chief's Severance Pay

LEAD: Former president of the Chicago Board of Trade, Karsten meals man eliminated in the middle of taxes, that his trading company had abused funds from the customer receives $ 120000 and allowances, officials of the Exchange futures said Tuesday. The former chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade, Karsten

Halliburton Subsidiary Is Accused of Bias

ive black veterans have accused Kellogg Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, of engaging in racial discrimination. One of the men, a 21-year veteran of the Marines, contended in an arbitration filing that he was paid less than his colleagues, endured racist epithets, was passed over for promotion in

Rainbow-PUSH board says payment to Stanford was severance pay

Board members of the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition Friday said a payment of $35,000 to the woman who had a baby with the group's founder, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, was severance pay, and denied there were any further payments. The executive vice president of the Rainbow-PUSH Coalition, the Rev. James Meeks, said

Unions want tougher job law after Gourmet row

UNIONS will use the autumn conference season to urge ministers to toughen up employment law after the Gate Gourmet dispute in which staff were sacked in a car park by megaphone. They plan to use an employment rights debate on the first day of the TUC conference next month to

High court puts limits on job arbitration Federal employment commission can sue on worker's behalf

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt mandatory arbitration a rare setback yesterday, ruling that the quasi-legal, private system of resolving disputes cannot prevent a federal agency from going to court to enforce laws against employment discrimination. In one of the few decisions to interrupt mandatory arbitration's steady expansion into most areas

Work discrimination blocks Bosnia Muslims

Employment discrimination is blocking the return of Muslim refugees and displaced people to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Amnesty International said Thursday. "Ten years after the signing of the Dayton peace agreement, the authorities of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and of the Republika Srpska have failed to address violations of workers'

Fisher & Phillips LLP Adds Attorney in Atlanta Office

Atlanta (March 27, 2008) - Fisher & Phillips LLP, a leading national labour and employment policy at the law firm, announced that labour and employment lawyer Hiudt Tiffani, the company d Atlanta's Bureau associates. Hiudt just Ms. Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough LLP, where for four years, they advise clients

Ark. Gov Signs Severance Tax Hike

LITTLE ROCK - legislators and Gov. Mike Beebe only required to achieve three days, which has not yet been done, and a half-century, improving Arkansas' tax allowances to pay for natural gas United States, millions of dollars in improving the highway. The State is expected, and grew by $ 100

Paid family leave law highlights

WHAT SOUVENIR: During the past year, the legislature has an action that could pay up to $ 250 per week for up to five weeks if people should care for a new child, including children adopted. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM: Benefits are expected to begin in October 2009. A task

No case for Sven to answer says FA

The FA board met at a London location to decide whether to take action against the 56-year-old Swede in a case that had already claimed the scalp of their chief executive Mark Palios. Board members accepted the resignation of Director of Communications Colin Gibson but were not prepared to comment on
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