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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
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
Muni Workers' Comp Bills May Face Ax S.F. mayor airs surveillance videos
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown aired surveillance videos yesterday of supposedly injured Muni workers doing heavy physical work to dramatize the city's pledge to cut millions in workers' compensation bills. Brown and Michael Burns, the mayor's Muni boss, characterized the increase in workers' compensation costs at the Municipal Railway as
Polito & Smock to merge with big law firm
In at least the fourth major merger announced by a local law firm this year, Polito & Smock, specializing in labor and employment law, will merge with Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Steward, effective Monday. Ogletree Deakins, with headquarters in Greenville, S.C., and offices in two dozen U.S. cities, bills
Booklets breach rules on election ads
Two brochures produced by the political parties and parliamentarians in the implementation of the Parliamentary crest was decided that elections to advertising as part of the Electoral Commission Finance Act. However, the Electoral Commission said there are no consequences. The parties, labour and law, receive a warning and a reference
Sports of The Times; Amateurism: The Myth Is Upheld
AFTER Mike Utley broke his neck playing for the Detroit Lions in a National Football League game in November 1991, he received workers' compensation for his injuries, which have rendered him a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair. He gets $533 a month, nurse's care five days a week, and rehabilitation
Seven rules for working with an attorney
Working with a labor and employment attorney is not always easy. Believe me, I know. I've seen the relationship from both sides of the fence, as a client and as a labor and employment attorney. Prior to attending law school, I worked for several years as a human resource professional
Microsoft discrimination case highlights pitfalls of employee referral
Microsoft has remained tight-lipped about the employment discrimination lawsuit filed by seven ethnic minority employees in a U.S. District Court this week. Microsoft's global vice president of human resources, Deborah Willingham, said the company had no further comment because the matter was under litigation. Meanwhile, in the UK, Microsoft said
$54M in landmark case
What would have been a landmark federal gender-discrimination trial turned into a landmark settlement yesterday when Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $54 million just before opening arguments were set to begin. The giant investment house faced charges from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that it had discriminated against women on
Supreme Court to Consider Role of Intent in Age Bias
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to settle one of the most disputed questions in civil rights law: how to win an age discrimination case in the absence of proof that an employer deliberately singled out older workers for unfavorable treatment. The issue in a case brought by a group
Workers' Compensation: More to Do
Before 1914, workers in New York State who were disabled on the job faced a stark choice: Sue or starve. Then the Legislature devised a no-fault insurance plan that covered medical costs and two-thirds of lost pay. Albany closed its 1990 session by voting a deserved increase in worker benefits.