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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
Protecting Employers Against Bloggers
Web blogs are booming, but while millions of workers--perhaps as many as 5% of the American workforce--are maintaining online personal diaries, only about 15% of employers have specific policies addressing work-related blogging. Why should you care? Well, according to a new survey conducted by the Employment Law Alliance, a network
International - The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Today's world, success is measured by the number of people and places them and serve common goals. Applause and recognition is a matter of globalization, a dance, in which countries and communities to competition with regard to resources, skills, innovation and remote communities can, if they work together for a
Take action on poor performance.
If an employee does not meet performance standards must be set on fire, leaders must take the necessary measures to ensure that the rights of unfair dismissal. IN SPITE OF PROBLEMS High-Tech filling certain positions, but few can afford to managers assisted by a staff member who did not meet
Where Rocker's Rights End
When John Rocker arrived in New York this week to appeal his suspension from Major League Baseball, he was greeted by catcalls and angry demonstrators, exactly the sort of indignant response he should have expected to get, given the slurs he has directed at blacks and other people. But Rocker
Workers' Compensation: The difficult ten percent
Employers in Wisconsin rightfully have concerns about the cost of medical care for injured workers. Yet, from my experience over the years, I know that most of the injured workers I see are treated and discharged from care in less than two weeks, and have fewer than three physician visits. I
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LEAD: When the political battle raged last summer over a plant-closing bill that required 60 days' notice of shutdowns and large layoffs, much of the debate centered on blue-collar jobs. Few participants would have guessed that Wall Street bankers and brokers might be among the first people affected after the
Job Security Ignites Debate in France
Demonstrations against a new French employment law are reaching a boiling point. More than one million people marched through French streets on Mar. 18 and 19. Half the country's universities are blockaded, one injured protester lies in a coma, and workers' unions are threatening a general strike on Mar. 28.
Westchester Journal; Corporate Naivte
The mortgage department of a large savings and loan orders one of its chief officers, 58 years old, to take early retirement or be dismissed. Discovering that he is being replaced by a younger man at a lower salary, the officer sues the bank, charging age discrimination. He also
High Court Holds 1866 Race-Bias Law Is A Broader Tool
In a significant expansion of Federal civil rights protections, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that Arabs, Jews and members of other ethnic groups may sue under a post-Civil War law's broad prohibition against discrimination. In a significant expansion of Federal civil rights protections, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously
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