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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

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

Radio Free Asia Counsel Robert Eric Wone, 32

Katie Tremul stood before Manassas City Council members recently and said she wanted to tell them a story: "a story of honor, dedication, loyalty, as well as fear, pain and abandonment." It was her story, a cautionary tale, she said, one that illustrates the intricate web of employment law and how

Australia employment law takes effect

Contentious law changes aimed at boosting employment have taken effect in Australia. Unions said the new law was not the way to compete with fast-growing Asian economies. The law weakens the unions by encouraging workers to sign individual contracts with employers, rather than group contracts. Employees will be stopped from launching unfair

Countersuits are on the rise in sexual harassment litigation

Two years ago, David Kubes faced damaging accusations when a woman employee sued him for sexual harassment. Dental assistant Annette Cole (then Annette Kinny) alleged that for 2{ years, the St. Paul dentist repeatedly had talked to her and to others in the office about false office rumors that the

Dateline Pittsburgh: 12/21/06

Burns & Scalo Roofing landed the roofing contract award for the Holiday Inn, Steubenville, Ohio, from general contractor Massaro Corp. Vector Security Inc. named Pipitone Group to develop strategic marketing programs for its service channel as well as a customer relationship program in its national accounts division. CommuniTech LLC, a full- erational efficiency,

Workers' comp provider says issue too complex for ballot initiative

Stanley Zax, chairman of Zenith National Insurance, one of California's largest workers' compensation providers, hopes lawmakers pass a reform bill and head off a threatened ballot initiative. "I've been doing this for 25 years,'' Zax said. "Anybody who thinks we can have an initiative fight, with 30-second sound bites, on

The Media Business; Times Company Names New Vice President

Cynthia H. Augustine has been named senior vice president for human resources of The New York Times Company. Ms. Augustine, right, will be responsible for all human resources functions, including compensation, employee benefits and organizational development, effective Feb. 16. She is currently a partner in the law firm of Sabin,

Mystery of India's Poverty: Can the State Break Its Grip?

BARADPUR, India - In torn clothes, the boys, mostly low-caste children of laborers, held out their plates to be served from a steaming vat of gruel. The image was Dickensian, but it represented not 19th-century England's abdication of responsibility toward the poor but 21st-century India's seeming embrace of it. The

Commerce secretary knows the central city

Cory Nettles sees potential in Milwaukee's central city, and one of his top priorities as state commerce secretary is to help minority-owned businesses get the capital they need to expand and create family sustaining jobs. "There is a strategy to really focus on minority business development and wealth creation in the

U. hit with job discrimination suit

A man claiming he is a former Penn employee recently filed a complaint against the University, alleging employment discrimination on several different counts. Gordon Roy Parker, a publisher and self-proclaimed activist, claims that during his employment at Penn, the University practiced racial, gender, disability, retaliation, creed and irrelevant criteria discrimination against