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Different education standards for young applicants is legal

01/01/2007

While employers should typically use the same education and experience requirements for all applicants for the same position, they needn’t do so in every case …

You can demand that staff work overtime, but be consistent

01/01/2007

If your organization hits a busy time and needs employees to work long hours, don’t hesitate to require everyone to pitch in. Federal rules allow you to require nonexempt employees to work overtime, so long as you pay them time-and-a-half for hours worked above 40 in a week …

Employee’s comment can serve as harassment ‘Notice’

01/01/2007

It doesn’t take much for employers to become liable for sexual harassment once someone in authority knows (or should have known) about the probability that harassment will occur. Actual knowledge that harassment has occurred isn’t necessary. In fact, liability can be triggered by something as minor as an employee’s comment that she is “uncomfortable” around a co-worker …

Court gives employees more power in age-Bias cases

01/01/2007

When employees file age-discrimination lawsuits, their lawyers may try to bolster the case by seeking out co-workers who have the same complaint …

Moonlighting policy: What’s the best language?

01/01/2007

Q. We are a not-for-profit agency working with developmentally disabled clients. Some of our therapists moonlight with private patients. Should we allow this? If not, how would we word a policy statement forbidding it? —B.B., Maryland

Sample Policy: Meal Breaks

01/01/2007
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Sample Policy: Time Sheets

01/01/2007
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Sample Policy: Absenteeism/tardiness

01/01/2007
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Sample Policy: Smoking

01/01/2007
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Sample Policy: Vacations

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: This first policy stresses the importance of taking vacation time by forbidding carryovers except when special workloads make it impossible for employees to take the vacation due them: […]