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- absence from work caused by illness
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- Sick Leave Creates a Dilemma
- Sick Leave Creates a DilemmaSick Leave Creates a DilemmaThat type of situation is what FMLA was created for. The business can have legal issues if they are creating a new policy that applies for "popular" people and then a different policy for "unpopular" people.RE: Sick Leave Creates a DilemmaNow the...
- Discussion threads 2008-03-19
- Germs, and Germaphobes, in the Office
- Germs, and Germaphobes, in the OfficeIrrational?O agree that a corner of the office is the better solution. However, her fear of getting a cold shouldn't be labeled irrational. The fact is, you get a cold by being exposed to the cold virus. So if employees come to work with colds,...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- Pivotal workers' compensation decision.
- Mar 15, 2007 (Benchmarking HR - ABIX via COMTEX) -- An unfair dismissal case involving a casual child care worker is to proceed to trial. The employer in the case, Hills Before & After School Care, had argued that its decision to sack Jane Lee on ...
- Research articles 2007-03-15
- IRS ruling OKs sick leave conversion to cash balance credit.
- JERRY GEISEL WASHINGTON - A new Internal Revenue Service private letter ruling could further increase the appeal of cash balance pension plans. Under the new ruling, employees annually could convert unused paid sick leave into a pay equivalent, JERRY GEISEL...
- Research articles 1998-10-19
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- Sick Leave Creates a Dilemma
- Last week, Washington D.C. approved a new law requiring all city businesses to provide paid sick leave to their employees. This is a positive step for small businesses and low-wage workers most large companies already have such policies in place for their professionals, but it reminded me of a...
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- Sick Leave among Home-Care Personnel: A Longitudinal Study of Risk Factors
- The aim of the white paper study is to assess whether self-reported factors related to health, work and leisure time could predict: 1) future certified sick leave due to any cause, in nursing aides/ assistant nurses and 2) future self-reported sick leave due to NSBD in nursing aides/ assistant nurses....
- White papers 2004-11-08
- Establishing a Sick Leave Policy
- There are many reasons for having a sick leave policy. Which policy is best for a person is a matter of how much the company can afford and corporate/personal philosophy and background. This article discusses the varieties of sick leave policies and the pros and cons, which will affect your...
- White papers 2000-07-24
- Developing Vacation and Sick Leave Policies
- The article says that Human Resource Department should work on developing vacation and sick leave Policies. When developing sick leave and vacation policies for your company, there are some things you must do, because you're required to by law, and some things you should do, because they'll help you retain...
- White papers 1999-01-02
- Sick Leave
- Permanent and temporary employees earn sick leave; intermittent employees do not. The rate sick leave earned is based on the type of work schedule. There is no limit to the amount of sick leave an employee can carry over from one year to the next
- White papers 1998-11-18
- SUN LIFE MANAGES SICK LEAVE.
- NEW YORK-A program from Sun Life Insurance & Annuity Co. of New York aims to help employers manage self-funded sick leave plans. The program, SunAdvisor, provides professional claims management, including medical and psychiatric review, as well NEW YORK-A program from Sun Life Insurance &...
- Research articles 1999-05-10
- Smokers take eight days more sick leave per year: study
- PARIS AFP — Smokers take on average nearly eight days more sick leave per year than non-smoking colleagues, according to a Swedish study published on Thursday in the British health journal Tobacco Control. The study looked at data on absence for sickness among more than 14,000 workers between 1988...
- Research articles 2007-03-28
- Hangover is main reason for Britons taking sick leave: study
- LONDON AFP — The morning after the night before is the main reason in Britain for employees calling in sick, a study published Wednesday showed. One in five workers opting to stay in bed do so because of over-indulgence, according to 500 individuals surveyed by Unum insurance company. Scots...
- Research articles 2007-12-19
- Workplace flu shots aim to cut sick leave.
- May 14, 2002 (The Courier-Mail ABIX via COMTEX) -- A growing number of companies are offering free influenza vaccinations to staff to cut down on the risk of sick leave and lost productivity. Staff at Qantas Airways, Royal Brisbane Hospital and Ford Motor Australia...
- Research articles 2002-05-23
- More Weld County, Colo., Businesses Adopt Family-Friendly Sick Leave Policies.
- By Tom Hacker, Greeley Tribune, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 24--There must have been some mistake. Mike Brehon's paycheck was over the top, according to his calculations of time spent on the job at Mark's Main Street Market in...
- Research articles 2004-05-24
- State Senate Rejects Mandatory Sick Leave Bill
- PeopleFirst Expands Loan Program Through MyBankUSA Web Site The country's largest small-business group commended the California state Senate for saving the state's small businesses from some "poisonous" legislation. Earlier this month, the Senate's Committee on Industrial Relations rejected SB-1567, the Sick Leave Mandate. "This was a poisonous...
- Research articles 2000-05-22
- Sick leave taken during suspension: Pentagon investigator still faces probe.(Nation)
- A senior Defense Department criminal investigator who was suspended on allegations of falsifying a passport has been transferred to paid-sick-leave status after complaining of stress. Larry Hollingsworth was the director of internal affairs for the Defense Criminal Investigative Service DCIS when federal agents...
- Research articles 1996-01-04
- Morph of a Nerd CEO â€" Sick Days are Sick
- Here you are with your own company. You don’t get to write code any more (or you shouldn’t be writing code, anyway). There’s a lot of petty stuff you have to deal with. One of the worst is adjudicating sick days, personal days,...
- Blog posts 2007-02-15
- OPM proposes new leave policies for pandemics, family care
- The Office of Personnel Management proposed regulations on Wednesday that would make it easier for federal employees to take time off to care for family members who have been exposed to dangerous communicable diseases or wounded in combat."It's a very generous federal benefit, and it's one that makes us a...
- News items 2009-08-27
- Sick of Sick Days?
- A study by human resources information provider CCH Inc. indicates employees aren't as ill as they let on. Only one-third of the time they call in sick are they ailing. Family issues and personal needs take up a lot of sick days. Taking an elderly parent to the doctor or...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- How to Take Parental Leave
- How to Take Parental Leavegreat article!This was really usefulRE: How to Take Parental LeaveCool info, it wasn't that long ago that our kids were born (seems like just the other day ;-) While I probably could have taken a lot of unpaid leave, I never took more than a week...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-27
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