While serving to curb inappropriate or abusive use, an effective and properly administered Web-use policy can encourage and guide the workforce to use the enterprise's Internet resources for positive, constructive, work-related purposes. This white paper looks at the major issues involved in formulating Web-use policy.
Most companies have performance management policies and processes that require, among other things, an annual formal written evaluation for each employee. Some companies go further and also require quarterly reviews. The policies usually explain the review process and tell employees the time frame in which reviews are done. Unfortunately, many...
Smoking is a hot issue in society today, and you as an employer need to make your stance on smoking in the workplace clear. In fact, some states have laws that require you to have a written smoking policy, to post that policy, and to designate certain areas as either...
The purpose of the Smoking policy is to control smoking in enclosed public areas and workplaces under the control of the company and to protect the health and comfort of its employees and customers. It covers enforcement of the policy and alternative provisions. You must check state law and local...
The purpose of the Short-Term Disability policy is to clearly define the eligibility requirements, benefits, administration of, case management of, disputes, reductions, confidentiality/privacy issues as they relate to the release of medical information, termination, as well as other important topics related to this disability benefit.
This Paid Absences Progressive policy explains the details of the Company's policy on employee illness as well as illness in the immediate family. It covers sick pay schedule, notification of illness, and unused sick leave.
The Employment Agreement policy is an agreement between the Company and the employee stating, in writing, the wage/salary, dates of payments, dates of acceptance, and job title. It further acknowledges that the employee received an employee handbook, and agrees to comply with it and any other rules. Neither the handbook,...
This paper uses a unique Linked Employer-Employee Data LEED set to examine the determinants of mergers and acquisitions and to study post takeover employment. It is found that firms involved in takeovers are qualitatively different from non takeover firms and that post takeover employment probabilities are highly dependent on individual...
This paper studies optimal UI policy from the perspective of worker assignment to heterogenous jobs in an environment of random matching. Workers react to UI policy through job acceptance decisions; firms react to UI policy through wage posting. There is endogenous assortative matching as a result of the fact that...
The contribution holidays that extended through the late 1990s lulled many plan sponsors into the false belief that it wasn't necessary to have a funding policy. Despite this harsh lesson, today many plan sponsors still have not developed a formal, well-documented funding policy and continue to fund just the minimum...
Empirical studies document differences in firms' response to the introduction of various labor market policies. In particular, large and mature firms tend to participate more actively in the targeted employment subsidy programs under which firms receive subsidies for hiring disadvantaged workers. This paper offers an explanation for this phenomenon and...
In the absence of a personal time-off policy, when has an employee called in sick enough times to justify dismissal? How many days off are appropriate when a family member is sick or dies? Do you have any choice about paying an employee who is on a jury or spending...
While any business operates best when all employees are present, employee absence and tardiness create more of a problem in some businesses than in others. With this in mind, we've designed two different sample absence policies, contained in this paper. The first is very strict and is designed for businesses...
From the executive summary: ‘For many entrepreneurs and owners of small businesses, the decision to take on employees represents an exciting step. While a firm, that employs only the owner and his or her family members may get along without formal human resource policies, the status changes when others are...
This white paper is indulged in evaluating the performance of threshold-based job allocation policies in a heterogeneous distributed computing system, where servers may have different speeds, and jobs may have different service demands, importance, and/or affinities for different servers. The paper basically finds that while threshold based policies typically yield...
It's health insurance that private insurance companies sell to help fill gaps in what the Original Medicare Plan covers. Medigap policies are also known as "Medicare Supplement Insurance." Medigap policies pay most - if not all - of the costs for coinsurance and co-payments under the Original Medicare Plan. These...
This article explains the policy statement that restates and reaffirms a long-standing policy of the Company and its predecessors that establishes the highest standards of legal and ethical conduct for the company. It is the policy of the company to comply fully with all laws governing its operations and to...
More Than Four years after the U.S. Supreme Court's pronouncement on employer liability for sexual harassment by supervisors in Ellerth and Faragher, most employers recognize that it is necessary to have a written policy prohibiting harassing conduct that includes a procedure telling employees where to turn if they believe that...
The long-held belief that investment policy accounts for more than 90% of performance results has recently been questioned by critics of the study that established this belief. While the critics suggested - but failed to agree on -- alternative measures to better estimate the importance of investment policy, they unanimously...
A number of mechanisms are available to regulators that will harness the benefits of competitive markets. However, more focused experiments should be undertaken to test the viability of the alternative policies, products and services. This article will review and analyze the salient features for some of the well-known failures of...
