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To cut costs, shed myths about staff returning from injury

10/01/2004

Issue: Common misconceptions exist about how to handle employees returning from injury leave. Benefit: By looking deeper into these return-to-work myths …

Water-cooler politics: Limit trouble, but allow free speech

10/01/2004

John Kerry and George Bush aren’t the only people embroiled in political debates this month. So are some of your employees. And, with the country at war …

Start of absence, not approval date, sets 12-week FMLA clock ticking

09/01/2004

Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), eligible employees can take up to 12 weeks of job-protected, unpaid leave. When do those 12 weeks officially begin? A new court ruling …

Lay down the law on when staff can take vacation leave

09/01/2004

Issue: Productivity takes a hit when key employees take vacation at key moments. Benefit: You can legally tell employees when they can take …

Sniff out suspicious FMLA requests with this 9-step plan

09/01/2004

Issue: Half of all HR professionals say they’ve approved FMLA requests that they believed weren’t legitimate. Risk: Employees who “work” the system to earn …

Courts Differ on Half-Day Deduction Rules

08/01/2004

Q. You’ve said that a company can’t deduct a half-day for an exempt employee who has used all her sick and vacation time; it must be in full-day increments. But what if the employee hasn’t used all her banked sick and vacation time? Could an employer require the employee to use that instead? —S.V., North Carolina

ADA doesn’t give employee freedom to redefine his job

08/01/2004

Q. One of our employees has been out on disability leave for almost 16 months. He says he wants to return to work, but only if we give him a supervisory position without a lot of strenuous activity. We have no such position available. We’ve offered him other positions, but he’s refused them all. Can we legally terminate him? —L.B., North Carolina

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To cut costs, shed myths about staff returning from injury

Water-cooler politics: Limit trouble, but allow free speech

Start of absence, not approval date, sets 12-week FMLA clock ticking

Lay down the law on when staff can take vacation leave

Sniff out suspicious FMLA requests with this 9-step plan

Courts Differ on Half-Day Deduction Rules

ADA doesn’t give employee freedom to redefine his job

You don’t have to accept after-the-fact proof of FMLA leave

You can set rules on when employees take vacation time

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