California is uniformly thought of as the most liberal employment law state. It is often the test ground for new employment laws and theories. Yet, paid sick leave could not even make the grade in the Sunshine Golden State. According to the Angeles Times, California's paid sick leave measure died in its legislature: A state bill to guarantee paid days off for sick workers died Thursday amid op
While the Ohio Healthy Families Act stalls in the legislature, and Sick Days Ohio, the group lobbying for this bill, gathers signatures to place in on November's ballot, New Jersey will join California and Washington to become the 3rd state (plus the District of Columbia and San Francisco) to require paid sick leave for employees. The New Jersey plan, however, differs from Ohio's Healthy Families Act in three key regards:
New Jersey's employees will partially fund their own paid leave through a payroll deduction. According to today's Philadelphia Inquirer, each worker will pay about $33 per year, while each is entitled to collect up to two-thirds of their salary, capped at $524 per week.
Employers will be able to require their employees to use accrued vacation days and other paid time
Went to the doc yesterday after a few scary dizzy spells, and holy baloney, no wonder I feel so wretched.
Sinus infection.
Bladder infection.
Anemia.
I’m eating Keflex and iron pills, and I’m taking advantage of all the pity and laying on the couch like a pregnant spud. See ya next week sometime.
PS - Shaggy woke up yesterday, doing [...]
God Bless You! Well, I didn't get a chance to help my Grammy with any more blog posts this past week because I got sick with a cold. I was sneezing and coughing a lot. Mommy said that I felt a little warm and had something called a "fever" so, she decided not to send me to day care on Thursday and Friday. I really missed Ms. Bea, Nyeisha, and all my friends but Mommy said that I might make them sick too so, I had to stay at home. She stayed home (and didn't go to work) so she could take care of me and did all kinds of things to help me feel better. We even wrapped up in our blankee and watched "Thomas & Friends" together for hours!Click logo to enter!
(A week ago) Friday night, Bug had cold-like symptoms. Saturday night, her fever and throat pain were pushing straight through my efforts. I wasn't expecting her to be admitted when I took her to the ER, but within a couple of hours, she was being processed. She had a bad case of strep throat and a white count well above her doctor's level of comfort. Bird and I spent three nights camped out in
I recently came across a study that caught my interest. Have you ever wondered how many of employees who call in sick are actually ill? A 2003 study by Harris Interactive found that only 36% who claim to be sick are sick. Not only is this figure disturbing, the trend is disquieting. It seems that back in 1995 45% of those taking sick leave were sick; we have lost 9 % in 8 years. A summary of the full study is available at www.cch.com in an article titled Unscheduled Absence Survey. The actual data on the reasons given for using sick leave, as provided by Harris Interactive: 36% Sick 11% Stress 13% Entitled to their sick leave 18% Personal matters 22% Family Matters 100% The study also viewed the data from the standpoint of companies with very good morale (12%) and good morale (44%), fair morale (34%) and poor morale (10%). As you might guess, morale did have a marked impact on absenteeism. Companies with very good/good morale had an overall absenteeism ra
Have you ever thought about what you will do when you need to take time away from your online business because you are ill? Will your downtime result in a stumbling block to business? What about times when you will be taking a vacation, will your site continue to sell without your guidance?
There are a [...]
