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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
OSHA proposes ergonomics standards
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Monday unveiled proposed regulations for addressing repetitive-motion disorders in the workplace. The proposals include adjusting the height of working surfaces, letting workers vary their tasks and encouraging rest breaks. OSHA also recommended that manufacturing businesses reduce the size of items workers must lift
New York's Dangerous Insurance Policy
New York's State Insurance Fund, founded 75 years ago by a socially inventive, farsighted Legislature, now writes 45 percent of all workers' compensation insurance in the state. To mark its anniversary, the fund recently sent its policyholders a handsome financial statement complete with a message of congratulation from Gov. New
Bias Lawsuit May Have Wide Impact
When Clara Watson dropped by Fort Worth Bank and Trust in 1973 to pick up an application for a job as a teller, she said, the chilly reception almost ended her dream of working at the bank. When Clara Watson dropped by Fort Worth Bank and Trust in 1973 to
Home Office Ruling Retracted Quick response outraged employers
Responding to a chorus of complaints from business, Labor Secretary Alexis Herman retreated yesterday from a directive that had appeared to extend to employers the same legal responsibilities for home workplace safety that they have at the office. Businesses claimed that the controversial opinion, stated in an ``advisory letter'' to
Ohio College's Ex-Chief Keeps Severance Pay
An Ohio jury has agreed to let a former president of Central State University keep all of the $325,000 severance pay that he received upon resigning in the midst of a financial crisis in 1995. The former president of the historically black university, Arthur E. Thomas, gained a package from
Business and the Law; Bias Rulings Aid Japan's U.S. Units
QUITE fortuitously, Japanese companies may be reaping the benefits of a recent group of Supreme Court decisions on civil rights. The Business and the Law column on Monday about employment discrimination lawsuits against Japanese subsidiaries in the United States referred incorrectly to the vice chairman of the Equal Employment
How Microsoft Changed Its Mind
During the past two weeks I've heard from many of you with a wide range of views on the recent anti-discrimination bill in Washington State, and the larger issue of what is the appropriate role of a public corporation in public policy discussions. This input has reminded me again of
Stay-In Contract(employment agreements)(Brief Article)
LEGAL: DRAWING UP EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS CAN HELP RETAIN KEY EMPLOYEES AND PROTECT YOUR TRADE SECRETS -- BUT BEWARE OF THE DRAWBACKS. SHOULD YOU ENTER INTO EMployment contracts with your employees? Not if you don't want to alter the "at will" relationship assumed in most states, under which you can terminate
D'Amico's caught up in controversy over immigrant workers
Outside of Minneapolis’ D’Amico’s Restaurant in Uptown, demonstrators rallied on Friday, March 28, on behalf of 13 immigrant workers who are losing their jobs at the diner because they haven’t proven their identities. D’Amico’s and the employees are caught in the middle of a national debate surrounding immigration policy. The
What's my fastest way into the law?
I have spent 12 years in HR, eight in management level roles. I studied the IPM professional qualification in the late 1980s and subsequently took a law degree, graduating in 1994. Although my real ambition is to move into legal practice as an employment specialist, I have not yet realised