We recommend implementing a policy like such if you have employees who drive their personal vehicle for business purposes. Click the link below to download and customize the policy for your use: Use of Personal Auto for Business Purposes Policy We hope this information is valuable to you. If you have any questions regarding …
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Help your hiring managers effectively screen candidates and determine which applicants should continue on to the next steps in your hiring process with our Initial Pre-Screen Interview Questionnaire. Ask candidates to complete this questionnaire as part of their written application, during a face-to-face interview, or in an interview over the phone. Please click the link …
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The city of Elizabeth recently became the 10th New Jersey municipality to enact a paid sick leave law. The list of New Jersey cities with such a law includes Bloomfield, East Orange, Irvington, Jersey City, Montclair, Newark, Passaic, Paterson, and Trenton. Elizabeth’s law, which becomes effective on March 2, 2016, largely mirrors the laws that …
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California School Activities Leave Expansion Starts January 1 California’s law allowing unpaid time off for employees to participate in their children’s school or daycare activities will be expanded effective January 1. Current law requires employers with 25 or more employees to provide unpaid leave to employees who are a parent, guardian, or grandparent with custody …
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A bill signed into law over the summer will significantly strengthen Alabama employers’ ability to enforce noncompete agreements when the law takes effect January 1, 2016. The state’s old noncompete statute makes a broad statement that noncompete agreements are void. It then creates several exceptions into which courts have shoehorned the modern version of the …
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Policy Statement [Company Name] recognizes that employees may have a family emergency or a personal crisis that causes a severe impact to them resulting in a need for additional time off in excess of their available sick/personal time. To address this need all eligible employees will be allowed to donate sick/personal time from their unused …
Can you require all employees to get flu shots? Kind of. Mandatory flu shot policies are particularly prevalent in the healthcare field, and generally, employers can require employees to get a flu shot. However, although employer-mandated flu shots should be a good thing, some employees don’t see it that way. You may have to make …
Effective July 1, 2015, the Healthy Workplaces/Healthy Families Act of 2014 or the CA Paid Sick Leave Law will entitle most employees in California to three days of paid sick leave each year. All California employers must display the following text in an easily readable location on our before the effective date of the law: …
Starting July 1, 2015 most employees will be entitled to up to three days of paid sick leave each year. Here are the details. WHO IS COVERED? Employees who work in California at least 30 days within one year from the commencement of employment are covered. All private and most public employers are subject to …
At the time an employee’s protected leave is coming to a close, many employers send the individual a “Job Readiness” or “Fitness-for-duty” form. There are many sound reasons for such a process including: Confirmation of the individual’s condition (rather than relying exclusively on the employee’s own assessment or representation); Preventing employees from abusing medical leave …
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