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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
AARP to join suit against 3M
AARP, a powerful advocacy group, is joining an age discrimination lawsuit against 3M Co., the Maplewood-based manufacturer. The lawsuit filed in December claims that since at least 2001, 3M has discriminated against employees older than 45 in its performance appraisal system, promotions and pay. The two main plaintiffs in the
Equal rights are ignored, groups say
The nation's national examinations have deprived women from equal opportunity in positions in the coast guard or as judicial police, women's rights advocates said yesterday. They called on the government to abide by the Gender Equality in Employment Law and protect employment rights regardless of gender. Three years after the passage
Where there is smoke, there are terminations
A health care company has come under criticism for firing or forcing out all of its workers who smoke, even those who do so in their own homes and on their own time. Weyco Inc., a benefit services company based in Okemos, Mich., gave employees 15 months' warning, offered smoking
Maine Legislature Approves Budget
After 16 days of intense negotiations and an on-and-off government shutdown, Maine legislators adopted a budget today for the 1992 and 1993 fiscal years. Gov. John R. McKernan, a Republican who had wrangled with the Democratic-led Legislature over spending, taxes and workers' compensation insurance laws, is expected to sign the
Many Who Served on 9/11 Press Fight for Compensation
It is in places like Judge Mark Solomon's workers' compensation courtroom in Brooklyn that lingering questions about the health consequences of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center are fought over day after day. Workers take seats at one end of the dark wood table in front of
A Handyman Is Shot at Work, or Was He?
Early one Saturday morning nine years ago, Frank Rick was shot in an apartment building in the Crown Heights section of New York where he worked as a maintenance man. The bullet smashed the bone of his right arm and severed a nerve; his two teenage assailants also pistol-whipped him,
Governor Calls for Changes In Workers' Compensation
Gov. George E. Pataki outlined a raft of proposals on Tuesday to rein in the costs of workers' compensation in New York, saying he wanted to build on changes enacted in 1996 to allow businesses to create new jobs. Speaking at an annual conference for small businesses, the governor said
Focus shifting to new issues in employment law2
Ten years ago, it seemed that half of the largest employers in California, in one way or another, question on the status of the complexity of the laws governing so-called pay overtime. There are fewer violations and complaints accused today overtime, but lawyers for workers and employers say they are
Hot Employment Issues in 2002
Given today's economic environment, employers are experiencing an increase in the number of federal and state employment law claims brought by former (and sometime current) employees. High-tech companies may find themselves particularly vulnerable to costly legal battles arising under employment discrimination legislation as they may not have the developed policies
EasyJet lodges appeal in French court against French labour code
Low-cost airline EasyJet said it has lodged an appeal with France's State Council against a decree passed last month ruling that all airline staff based in France are subject to French labour law. The company claims the law itself infringes existing EU law. The State Council, France's highest court of appeal, said