Sentences with phrase «with sicker employees»

«Companies that have healthy employees may see increases, and those with sicker employees may see decreases,» says Alan Cohen, chief strategy officer for Liazon, a private health care benefit exchange in New York City.

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On March 26, 2015, Microsoft announced it would require many of its 2,000 contractors and vendors to provide their employees with 15 days of paid time off for sick days and vacation time.

Your company benefits because you and your employees could learn how to adopt practices with a number of advantages (such as decreased stress or fewer people needing to take sick days).

Roger Chevalier, a California — based management consultant, says most of the companies he works with combine sick with personal days, trusting the employees will use the time when they need it.

Finally, the work - from - home employees were happier and therefore healthier, thereby reducing sick days and absenteeism (as well as people coming into work with contagious colds and flu), all of which decreased the company's overall health care expenses.

On the afternoon of Monday, January 31, human - resources manager Brown sat anxiously by his phone, waiting for a call from Stack, who was negotiating with Harvester at his lawyer's office in downtown Springfield.Since SRC did not want to assume Harvester's liabilities to employees for sick pay and vacation time, everyone in the plant had to be terminated as soon as the buyout was completed.

Studies show that employees with «schedule control» have lower turnover; increased productivity and quality; greater engagement; and reduced absenteeism, overtime and sick leave.

Employees with health insurance are more likely to get regular check - ups and take preventative measures, decreasing overall sick days.

It will reform disability and sick - day entitlements and work with employees to get them back to work as soon as possible.

Examine policies for leave, telework, and employee compensation and review with all employees so they are up - to - date on sick leave policies and employee assistance services that are covered under any of your employee - sponsored health plans.

Item No. 1 on the agenda for both legal and political reasons is the push to override Governor Hogan's veto of a measure requiring most companies to provide their employees with the chance to earn paid sick leave.

But it also includes measures that the Opposition Parties may not want to support; for example; the increase in annual Tax Free Savings Account contribution limit; changes to the sick leave provisions of federal employees; and retroactive legislation to protect the RCMP from possible criminal charges with respect to the destruction of data under the Access to Information Act.

If employees come down with a cold, have a family emergency or are just feeling stressed in the office, they may take a sick day when it's not really necessary.

Wayne Pesce, president of the Connecticut Food Association, a grocery trade group, spoke against legislation that would expand paid sick leave to businesses with 20 or more employees.

All other private employers will be required to provide up to 64 hours of paid sick leave... So - called micro-businesses, with five or fewer employees, will also be required to give paid sick leave, but not until October 2020.

The survey, which polled 1,000 working adults, revealed that 26 percent had taken a sick day due to a mental health problem; more than half (58 percent) revealed they weren't comfortable telling their boss if they were diagnosed with a mental health problem, and only 20 percent believed that their employer would be supportive of their employees battling a mental health issue.

Chipotle also offers a highly competitive benefits package to all employees, including paid sick leave and vacation time for full and part time employees, along with tuition reimbursement and merit - based increases.

Co-workers and managers benefit when employees are working rather than spending days at home with a sick child and when mothers are able to return to work sooner (and with greater peace of mind) after maternity leave than they otherwise would.

And by «working,» I mean «mainstream working»: as an employee, with little flexibility of working hours or home office and a very limited amount of holidays, which is dramatically reduced by the days you and your partner need for when childcare is closed, or those flu weeks you can not really cover by calling in sick again.

The proposed bill, agreed to by the mayor and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Vivertio but not yet introduced or passed in the council, will expand the size of businesses required to provide paid sick leave from 15 or more employees to 5 or more employees, accelerate it's applicability so that all covered businesses must comply by April 1, 2014 (businesses with 15 - 20 employees have until April 1, 2015 under the existing law), remove exemptions for manufacturing businesses and remove economic measurements that could have caused a delayed implementation and expand the range of family members that employees can care for during such paid sick leave.

If approved, it would have required businesses with 20 or more employees to provide workers with nine paid sick days a year.

If they work for a business with over 10 employees, employees could use up to 72 hours of paid sick leave.

Meanwhile, organized labor and progressives turned up the heat, with the Service Employees International Union purchasing a full - page newspaper advertisement that showed a sick child lying in a hospital bed.

Advocates have renewed their push to mandate paid sick leave for businesses with five or more employees.

All three proposals would provide up to 12 weeks of paid leave, with varying levels of reimbursement for an employee taking the time off to care for a sick loved one or a newborn.

The Albany County legislature is considering enacting a local law that would require employers to provide their employees with paid sick days.

The legislative intent of the bill is to «ensure that all workers in Albany County can address their own health and safety needs... and the needs of their families...» The legislature found that access to paid sick time promotes a healthy and safe county, reduces the spread of illness, and provides greater flexibility to employees with caregiving responsibilities.

The reasons for allowing an employee to take paid sick time include: employee's short term illness; time to deal with medical, legal or relocation issues related to domestic violence or child abuse; and to care for a family member when ill or in need of medical care.

«Employees are healthier, businesses function better, we have lest cost associated with people going to work sick,» said County Legislator Catherine Borgia.

An antagonist of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and critic of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's immigration record, she has already irked business interests by spearheading a law that requires businesses with five or more employees to give paid sick leave to their workers.

Quinn has been under intense pressure to pass the legislation, which would require businesses with 20 or more workers to give employees nine paid sick days off a year.

In addition to both bills, Democrats will also push two bills that expand paid sick leave countywide — companies with five or more employees would be required to provide at least 40 hours of paid sick leave — as well as a bill that would ban employers in the county from asking how much prospective employees made at a previous job.

The new legislation, being introduced to the Council by the mayor himself, will force businesses with five or more employees to provide workers, both full and part - time, with up to five paid sick days a year.

The resolution permits certain Rockland Association of Management (RAM) employees serving as undersheriffs, and a handful of other positions with other departments, to receive paid holidays, sick pay totaling half of the wages from missed days, four personal days, and 15 vacation days.

The legislation, which will take effect on April 1, 2014, will initially require companies with 20 or more employees to provide five days of paid sick leave.

That legislation would require businesses with four or more employees to give workers five paid sick days per year.

Cuomo proposed an employee - funded, 12 - week paid family leave for workers so workers can bond with a new child or care for a sick relative.

The latest version of the bill would require businesses with fewer than 20 employees to provide five paid sick days a year, said supporters.

Enacts paid family leave for New Yorkers with an employee - funded program that provides 12 weeks of paid leave for parents to bond with a new child or a sick relative.

Meanwhile, the employee - funded state paid family leave program will offer 12 weeks of paid time off for workers who want to take care of a sick relative or spend time with a newborn.

Under the revised version, businesses with more than 20 employees would have to provide nine sick days per year per employee.

Contract negotiations also led to more work - rule efficiencies, additional sick leave, more health plan options, higher health insurance opt - out payments and increased health insurance premium sharing, with contributions capped at $ 6,000 for active employees and $ 8,000 for retirees.

The Governor has proposed 12 weeks paid family leave for all employees with at least four weeks on the job, all in the hopes of helping new parents and workers who need to care for sick family members.

Others have reported that certain kinds of artificial light can improve sleep and reduce depression and agitation in people with Alzheimer's disease; that higher air temperatures seem to curb calorie consumption; that employees take more sick leave when they work in open - plan offices; and that children in daylight - drenched classrooms progress faster in maths and reading than do those in darker ones.

Zarezin, a circus employee is tasked with driving Bodhi, a sick elephant, to be euthanized.

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Handle the sickness - dodge It's not unheard of for employees faced with formal investigations to go off sick with stress.

Any full - time employee shall be eligible for participation in the sick leave pool after 1 year of employment with the Florida College System institution, provided such employee has accrued a minimum amount of unused sick leave, which minimum shall be established by rule.

Each other employee shall be credited with 4 days of sick leave at the end of the first month of employment of each contract year and shall thereafter be credited for 1 day of sick leave for each month of employment, which shall be credited to the employee at the end of the month and which may not be used before it is earned and credited to the employee.

Any full - time employee shall be eligible for participation in any sick leave pool after 1 year of employment with the district school system, provided the employee has accrued a minimum amount of unused sick leave which shall be established by rule and provided, further, a sick leave pool is established that allows participation by that particular employee.