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How many paid time-off days are allowed per year for employees with 5 years of tenure? Check one for each employee type. 1-5 days 6-10 days 11-19 days 20-24 days 25+ days Exempt Employees 15 (3%) 50 (9.9%) 189 (37.5%) 152 (30.2%) 80 (15.9%) Nonexempt Employees 20 (4%) 49 (9.7%) 200 (39.7%) 158 (31.3%) […]
Does your company offer a Paid Time Off (PTO) plan which provides a bank of days that may be used at the employees’ discretion for vacation, sick time, personal time, holidays, etc.? Response Percent Response Count Yes 58.2% 524 No 41.8% 377 Of those who Have a PTO Program: Which items are included […]
Yesterday’s Advisor answered three tricky “during leave” FMLA questions. Today, the challenge of suddenly discovered performance issues, plus an introduction to the book users call “The FMLA Bible.” Note: Today’s questions and answers are adapted from an HR Hero publication, Mastering HR: FMLA. What if we discover a previously unknown performance issue while an employee […]
Our recent survey on paid time off reveals that more and more organizations are going the PTO route for offering time off. For holidays, over 90% of respondents are offering New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, and Thanksgiving, and 81% will offer the Monday after Christmas. Fifty-eight percent of responding companies have […]
This summer, the U.S. House and Senate took a break from its floundering over debt and deficits to consider a few measures affecting employee benefits. Perhaps it was refreshing, spending at least a little time thinking about something else. Let’s take a look at the latest House and Senate bills that could affect employee benefits. […]
If you find out during the hiring process that an applicant blew the FLSA whistle on his or her former employer, you can probably pull the plug on that applicant, EVEN if you already sent him or her an offer letter (at least in the 4th Circuit). The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled […]
On Friday, August 12, the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta held 2-1 that the individual health insurance mandate provision found in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), the comprehensive health care reform legislation that President Barack Obama signed into law in March 2010, is unconstitutional. More specifically, the court found […]
“There is a dramatic increase in wage and hour lawsuits,” says Contacos-Sawyer (and the recent Wal-Mart decision probably means an even greater increase). At her presentation at the recent World at Work Total Rewards Conference in San Diego, Contacos-Sawyer, president of HR Consultants, Inc., was joined by colleagues Polly Wright and Judith Mickey. What About […]
Under California law, employees who work a “split shift” are entitled to one hour’s pay at minimum wage in addition to at least the minimum wage for that workday. But what, exactly, is a split shift? Guest columnist Cathleen Yonahara of San Francisco-based Freeland Cooper & Foreman, LLP explains.