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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

Death on the L.I.R.R.; Police Look for the Spark That Led to the Shootings

Two days after an angry gunman opened fire on a crowded railroad car, investigators are still looking into the question that continues to trouble almost everyone: why the suspect, Colin Ferguson, after years of simmering rage, apparently decided to vent his wrath on the 5:33 train to Hicksville. "He had

Trade unions push for new employment law agenda

The Gate Gourmet dispute at Heathrow airport inflamed union passions. But it also highlighted concerns about the need, as they see it, for new labour laws. During the annual TUC Congress week, these ideas came together, with leaders of the largest unions warning that support for any new Labour leader

Coca-Cola Selects Former Labor Secretary to Lead Diversity Task Force

The Coca-Cola Company and the plaintiffs in a class-action discrimination lawsuit against the company said yesterday that Alexis M. Herman, the former labor secretary, would be the chairwoman of a panel that will oversee the company's diversity efforts. The seven-member panel, created by the terms of a settlement of the

Kmart scrutinizing former execs

As part of the review, the bankrupt retailer has suspended severance pay to some of the executives, a number of whom, including former Chief Executive Chuck Conaway and President Mark Schwartz, were ousted from the company earlier this year. "The company is currently involved in a review of the stewardship

Digital dirt-digging.

Company recruiters have a number of tools aimed at finding the perfect candidate, including Internet search engines like Google and Yahoo!, and employers are increasingly using these options to get the skinny on potential employees. But while employers can see the practice as a quick, easy way to gain better

A Landmark Case for Mandatory Arbitration

In the early fall of 1995, a computer sales and repairman named Saint Clair Adams applied for a job at a Circuit City store in a Santa Rosa (Calif.) strip mall. He filled out a six-page job application, scribbling in the usual information: date of birth, employment history, and the

Interview Dos and Don`ts, CNNfn

Foundation pay policies questioned

Despite its low public profile, the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care is by far the largest of the 53 QIOs that oversee health care in every state, the District of Columbia and two U.S. territories. Together, the QIOs spend more than 300 million tax dollars each year. None spends more

Ex-minister pay-offs 'grotesque'

Norman Baker says the payments are an abuse of taxpayers' money and ex-ministers given new jobs should at least have to repay the cash. Cabinet ministers are entitled to one quarter of their £74,902 salaries when they leave office. The system began in 1991 and is to prevent sudden drops

French Students Take to Streets Against Job Law

Swarms of French demonstrators take to the streets in protest of a new law that would make it easier to fire workers younger than 26. The protests draw hundreds of thousands of people. Some of the protesters attack police, who respond with tear gas and paint bullets. The protests, which drew