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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
U.S. Admits Nuclear Arms Workers Got Sick From Beryllium Exposure
For five decades, the U.S. government persistently denied that workers in its nuclear facilities were putting their health and even their lives in peril as they helped develop the arsenal that protected the nation during the Cold War. Yesterday, the Clinton administration conceded that workers exposed to beryllium -- a
Two years down the road for hours law
Described as one of the most confusing pieces of legislation of recent years, how are firms coping with the Working Time directive? As the Working Time regulations approach their second birthday next month, two reports out last week highlight the problems for employers still struggling to put this confusing piece
This Salary Has No Options
President Clinton signed into law on Thursday legislation that defines stock options as an additional benefit comparable to health insurance and not part of an employee's base salary. Supporters of the Worker Economic Opportunity Act say the proposed law is necessary to preserve the stock options of employees entitled to
Workers Find It Tough Going Filing Lawsuits Over Job Bias
John Henry Smith Sr., a black employee of the Dougherty County Health Department, wanted to sue his employer with a claim of racial bias when he was passed over for a promotion. But, like an increasing number of people who want to file such suits, he could not afford the
Even Decisions on Civil Rights Can Be Wrong
'Casting a Shadow Over Civil Rights'' (editorial, April 27) deplores the decision of the Supreme Court to reconsider its 1976 decision in Runyon v. McCrary that Federal law forbids racially motivated refusals by a white private school to accept black children as paying pupils. The law in the case is
When Change Of Job Leads To Change Of Heart
SOMETIMES that new dream job isn’t as dreamy as it seems. It happened to Florida Gators coach Billy Donovan. Coming off consecutive NCAA tournament victories, the Nassau County native accepted a five-year, $27.5 million contract to coach the NBA’s woeful Orlando Magic last month. Days later, the hoops Hamlet asked
Civil Rights Groups Asking U.S. to Join Texaco Bias Suit
An umbrella organization of 180 civil rights groups has asked the Government to join a discrimination lawsuit brought against Texaco Inc. by some of its employees, an official at the organization said yesterday. The Leadership Conference of Civil Rights made its request to the general counsel of the Equal Employment
Microsoft seeks settlement in Google lawsuit
Microsoft proposed on Tuesday settling its lawsuit with Google over the hiring of a former executive in China by asking Google to agree to limit the exec's duties until July 2006 when the noncompete agreement he signed with Microsoft expires. Earlier on Tuesday, a Washington state judge ruled that Kai-Fu Lee
Outlawing ageism in Britain
LIFE expectancy for men in Britain has risen by five years to 76 since 1981, and ten years since the 1940s. The heavy manual work that used to kill off the labouring classes has itself been largely killed off by technology. Women now live beyond 80. Yet the “normal”—and for
Thousands of Nuclear Arms Workers See Cancer Claims Denied or Delayed
Walter McKenzie's assignment vis-à-vis the end of the cold war was the mop after failures at a nuclear weapons plant. With an occupation by other workers at the campaign of Georgia, it schrubbte far leaks and products at the outlet of buildings secret until it is one day, his body