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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
Need for time and courage to alter security laws
Enter the truth about man, and they are used to rescue the country. " Abraham Lincoln Cameron Murphy, said, the majority of Australians are shocked when they discover that many things have changed the nation to combat terrorism makes right, "and would never be supported, they announced them on the
Labour faces investigation as it's caught by own poll law
The red-left government has been characterized by an Election Commission has decided that its own against controversial electoral commission of the finance law to distribute brochures, without proper authorization. Labour had warning, but after that the Commission decided not to refer the matter to the police. Under the law, political
High Court Limits Who Is Protected By Disability Law
Resolving one of the most pressing questions of Federal disability law, the Supreme Court ruled today that people with physical impairments who can function normally when they wear their glasses or take their medicine generally cannot be considered disabled, and therefore do not come within the law's protection against employment
Protecting Your Benefits after the Pink Slip
Sometimes layoffs are implemented so swiftly employees barely have time to clean out their desks, let alone sort out their retirement benefits. But once you're off the payroll and out the door, you risk administrative hassles -- and even worse, loss of some retirement benefits you were counting on --
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
Severance Tax Hike Sails Through Committees On First Day Of Special Session
LITTLE ROCK - Gov. Mike Beebe plan for strengthening the rule of redemption tax on natural gas has sailed through the separation of committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate on Monday, the first day, which implies that three days special session of the legislative process. A proposal
Labor Law: Two Lawyers, Two Views
ROY BARNES, a union labor lawyer, calls them ''union busters.'' But Patrick L. Vaccaro, the managing partner of the White Plains office of the law firm of Jackson Lewis Schnitzler & Krupman, said: ''That's a union cop-out. That's a term they use for any firm that counsels management.'' ROY BARNES,
Out with the old
His story speaks of a troubling development for lawyers of a certain age who are looking for work in the Massachusetts legal community: "I've been trying to find a job since 2000. With the exception of the times I send out resumes without listing my years of practice and other
Kurt Ronn: Rethinking Talent Acquisition
We all know that if you want to order paper clips for the office, there is a purchasing process set up by the finance department that must be followed. However, the process for talent acquisition—how you find and select talent for your organization—remains largely undefined in the workplace and is
New Report on Census Data Shows Impact of Employment Discrimination Against Gay Men
Men in same-sex couples typically earn less than other American married men, according to a newly released Urban Institute analysis of Census 2000 data commissioned by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. American men in same-sex couples typically earn less than men who are married or living with women. State-level analyses