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  • New Hampshire checking in, our gas prices are @ $1.69 depending on where you shop and what grade of gasoline you use. It has krept up continously in the past two weeks. We've read in our newpapers by summertime we may be paying $3.00 a gallon. YIK…
  • Thank you, This is what I need to get things started.
  • Our agency in NH enables regular full time or part time employee to take care of necessary personal arrangements and relieve the employee of the concern over loss of earnings on regularly scheduled work days immediately following the death of: a spo…
  • We offer two medical plans. Our HMO plan EE .075% Employer portion .0925% Employee and Spouse- 45% employee employer portion 55% Employee and Child(ren)-45% employee employer portion 55% Family 47% employee e…
  • I'd like a copy of your survey also. Please email me at [email]mmurray@rcaction.org[/email]. I'm looking for new ideas for a new survey this year. We sent a survey out last year if you would like I can send you a copy of what we did.
  • The letter from the attorney does not state why he wants this info other than the ee was unable to work for a period of time following the accident. What happened is our employee got into an auto accident during work hours. It appears our ee is goi…
  • All said and done with safety incentives, I work for a small non-profit in New Hampshire and have been assigned the task of creating safety awards for this coming years retreat. The catch here is I will have no budget to spend, therefore purchasing…
  • Our company does offer Family/Sick Leave under the condition that the care provided by the employee is indispendensable to the family member's well-being. I would agree with the step-parent situation, the ee should be using our leave policy but und…
  • thank you for all your input, it has been a big help. It was just as i Thought and none of this has been done. As I have stated, I sent all the information to my boss and it is now in his lap. There isn't much more I can do if he isn't willing to mo…
  • Even though all I do is the enrollments, don't I still have to provide something to new hires and provide the employees with a summary plan description showing them their benefits? Our broker informed us we needed to do all of this to comply.
  • The ED stands for Executive Director and apparently he went to a non-profit seminar on HIPAA and it was his understanding from this class we did not have to do anything to comply with the new HIPAA regulations.
  • Thank you all for your input. It has been very helpful. I find this to be the worst part of the job notifying an employee they are no longer employed. I know I shouldn't take it personally but I feel for each and every employee I come in contact wit…
  • We are going through the same issue in our agency. Our Insurance Liability Carrier wished for all employees to carry the 100,00/300,000 while driving on agency business. We felt being a non-profit most employees could not afford this type of insuran…
  • Everyone has giving me great insight and feedback. The employee has gone on vacation for the next couple of weeks so this will give me time to set an action plan with her supervisor for when the employee returns. I agree enough is enough. If you do…
  • Thank you all for your posts. This employee has depression and has been hospitalized in the past for her depression. This employee is currently in counseling and as she begins to feel better comes off the medication and doesn't realize the outcome …
  • I work for a non-profit agency. Our sick policy runs a maximum of 420 hours; once you reach these hours you no longer accrue sick leave. Vacation is 12 days 1-2 years, 15 days 3-4 years, 18 days 5-6 years, 21 days 7-8 years, 24 days 9+ years. Up to…
  • My agency has to be licensed in some of the programs so the Feds get to come in and look at the personnel files checking to see if employees have had their hep 6 vac, criminal records, drivers checks, etc... We also have nurses working for us taking…
  • We have BCBS - New Hampshire - and a four tier plan, paying at 100%, less co-pays and deductibles. The agency pays various portions of the employee costs and dependents pay the rest. We received a 20% increase effective 12/1/02. Employee - $322.43 …
  • We have a have Personnel Committee who review policies? The committee is comprised of managers from different divisions in the company, along with the Personnel Manager. This committee gives input on ideas for new policies and presents them to our E…
  • We are running into that issue with our employer liability insurer carrier at the moment. If you would like I can send you a copy of the draft policy that we have written so send to our insurance company showing what employees have for coverage on t…
  • We have a small agency (130 employees). We require employees to give us written notification if they wish to allow someone else to pick up their payroll checks. Usually we ask the employee to give us the persons name and the date this person is comi…
  • We maintain separate files in separate secured cabinets.
  • Our agency is based in New Hampshire and is an "at will" employment state also. We have a 90 day interim orientation period for exempt and non exempt employees with an option to continue for another 6 months. In some cases, we may continue the orien…
  • I agree, I don't think anyone should have access to the HR office. In our agency, the only other people that have keys to my office other than myself are the Fiscal/Personnel Director and Office Manager. Our ED cannot come in unless I or the Fiscal/…
  • Hi Carol, I tried to you email you at your address listed and receieved a message that stated unsuccessful delivery. I don't know why. If you could send me your HIPAA policies, I would be eternally grateful. My email address is [email]MMurray@rca…
  • Linda, could you fax me the copy of the check list for HIPAA? My fax# is 603-431-2916. Thank you.
    in HIPAA Comment by maryfmurray April 2003
  • Could you send me a sample notice also. my email address is [email]mmurray@rcaction.org[/email] or you may fax me @1-603-431-2916. Thank you,
  • I work in a non-profit industry and th employee is a personnel/fiscal director. Our policy asks for a 4 week notice if possible. This employee gave a 4 to 6 month notice so they could help train the replacement if our agency placed an ad in the ne…
  • Sonny, How did you go about setting up the buyout option? Was this buyout only to be done at termination or retirement? or did you determine a deadline for someone to make a decision as to how much time they wished to buyout?
  • How did you place a cap on time to accrue? Sounds like an interesting plan? I'd like to hear more about it.