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Florida Clean Indoor Air Act

01/15/2007

Florida recently amended its Clean Indoor Air Act to comply with the Florida Health Initiative. The law prohibits smoking in all enclosed indoor workplaces except: private residences or private clubs, retail tobacco shops, smoking-designated guest rooms in hotels and motels, stand-alone bars and designated smoking rooms in airports … 

New York’s Employee Leave Laws

01/15/2007

New York employers must contend with an assortment of leave laws in addition to those required by the federal FMLA and the ADA’s reasonable accommodations requirements for employees with disabilities …

California’s Employee Leave Laws

01/15/2007

In addition to complying with the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, California employers must wade through a maze of the state’s leave laws, ranging from paid family leave for a serious health condition to time off for school visitations and emergency rescue duty …

Illinois’ Employee Leave Laws

01/15/2007

Illinois employees have enhanced leave options in addition to their rights under the federal FMLA. Employers with 50 or more employees are subject to Illinois’ School Visitation Rights Act, the Victims’ Economic Security and Safety Act and the Employee Blood Donation Leave Act. Also, employers with at least 15 employees must comply with the Illinois Family Military Leave Act …

How to Create Ergonomic Office Workstations

01/03/2007
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Sample Policy: Flexible Scheduling

01/01/2007
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Sample Policy: Moonlighting

01/01/2007
The following sample policies were excerpted from The Book of Company Policies, published by HR Specialist, © 2007. Edit for your organization’s purposes. _____________________________ Sample Policy 1: “An employee may hold a job with another organization as long as he or she satisfactorily performs his or her job responsibilities with XYZ. All employees will be […]

Design development plan around person’s life, not just the job

01/01/2007

Managers traditionally use employee development plans to give employees a say in the direction of their careers and to assess the organization’s future talent pool. Instead of using the tool just to focus on what an employee’s career would look like over the next one to five years, what if you used it to focus on what the person’s life would look like during that period? …

Flexibility is ‘Fundamental’ at Wisconsin accounting firm

01/01/2007

Flexibility isn’t a program at accounting firm Jefferson Wells International, says Nadine Guirl, vice president of HR. It’s part of the company’s “fundamental structure”  …

Sample Policy: Holidays

01/01/2007
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