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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
BACK with a VENGEANCE.
R revolutionaries trying to return. Cas. If Liberty Mutual Insurance, the largest nation of accident insurance for workers holders, which comes from a new analysis of the economic impact of injuries in the workplace, nobody in the world of work and the field of health protection was surprised to learn
Minnesota Widens Rights Act To Counter High Court Move
In a direct countermove to the United States Supreme Court, Minnesota has expanded its human rights law to broaden the rights of employees and subcontractors who want to take job discrimination complaints to the state's courts. In a direct countermove to the United States Supreme Court, Minnesota has expanded its
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
State Labor government to make further inroads into workers compensation
Proposed changes to workers' compensation by labour laws by the Australian government in the state of New South Wales have led to a series of strikes, public protests and resistance from the union bodies NSW Council of laboratory and Laboratory deputies. An estimated 100000 workers in the construction and forestry,
Former Steelworkers To Win Severance Pay
Workers laid off by the the United States Steel Corporation two or more years ago when their plants permanently closed are to receive severance pay, according to an arbitrator's ruling. Alfred C. Dybeck, chairman of the Board of Arbitration, ruled Monday that U.S. Steel should have given those employees a
Good governing
By Douglas Heuck and Dan Fitzpatrick, Post-Gazette Staff Writers In this edition, we have surveyed the 15 PG Benchmarks metropolitan areas to find out how they compare on six measures of good government practices. Some of the practices simply show how effectively and efficiently the main city or county in the
Your World Today
Protests in Paris. Tens of thousands clash with police in the largest demonstrations against a new law the government says will make France more competitive. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANDREW CARD, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF: Mr. President, as the chief of staff, I know I was a staffer. And now... (END VIDEO
Workers' compensation costs dip into Costco's profits
Costco Wholesale Corp.'s second-quarter earnings fell 5.4 percent as the company cut into profits to pay for rising workers' compensations costs. The Issaquah-based company reported yesterday net income of $182.1 million, or 39 cents per share, for the quarter ending Feb. 16, down from net income of $192.6 million, or 41
End of employment law as we know it?
A more sane approach to settling disputes is to look to the workplace for answers, says Mike Emmott A more sane approach to settling disputes is to look to the workplace for answers, says Mike Emmott Deregulation has been on the UK political agenda now for two decades. What is there to
Benefits fraud backfires
If you are looking for a shortcut to riches, don't try to swindle the workers' compensation system, or you'll wind up in rags. A number of postal workers have learned - to their chagrin - that stiff fines and financial penalties await those who try to defraud the U.S. Postal