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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

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Paid family leave law highlights

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Speaking Out on Why “The World Can’t Wait”

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Getting Two Bites at the Compensation Apple

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The Orlando Sentinel, Fla., Jobs Column

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204 firms punished for flouting labour laws

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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

Supreme Court limits free speech in workplace for public employees

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Merit-Based Judging

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Portland, Ore. firm pay workers for time putting on protective gear

Siltronic Corp. has offered to settle two class-action lawsuits by paying $5.75 million to more than 1,000 current and former employees for time spent putting on and taking off "bunny suits" and uniforms before entering the company's dirt-free work rooms in Portland. Under terms of the proposed settlement, filed late

As Plants Close, Injury Claims Rise

On June 1, 1991, a jeans manufacturer named Big Yank shut an Oklahoma factory employing 225 workers. As the plant closed, the employees filed nearly 400 workers' compensation claims for injuries on the job, despite having filed only 6 in the previous year. The company, which had already been battered

Off-the-job misdeeds can cost you your job

Most workers have a good idea of what is acceptable on-the-job behavior and what isn't. Knock back a beer in your cubicle? Never. Perform a striptease in the cafeteria? No way. Yell obscenities at co-workers? Absolutely not. But what happens when workers are off the clock? Is it OK to

Magazine's review finds problems in workers compensation

The workers compensation system, which is supposed to provide a lifeline for people injured on the job, instead offers dramatically inadequate coverage to some workers, according to a report Wednesday by Consumer Reports magazine. The insurance industry says the system has made great strides in protecting the health and safety

He's worked employment law from both sides

Lawyer David Linesch has some simple advice on how to fire an employee: gently. Don't hover while he packs his personal belongings. Don't forbid him to say goodbye to co-workers. And unless he poses a threat, don't humiliate him by having armed guards escort him out. "If you want your employee" to