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HRNET@yahoogroups.com
Sep 1, 2004 9:27 am
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I will be out of the office starting 08/26/2004 and will not return until 09/02/2004. I will respond to your message when I return. If this needs immediate ...
Hi groups--pardon the cross post. I'm trying to get a sense of who the major players are in designing and implementing world class customer service training...
I got this article sent to me from BizJournal a bit earlier this week, but just got around to reading it. It is certainly related to some of our discussion ...
We have been discussing HR and its need to know/understand the business for at least the last 20 years as well as recently here on HRNET. So I thought many of...
HRStrategy@...
Sep 2, 2004 1:10 pm
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Patricia, Great article! I particularly liked the sections on "business alignment" and "cost verses value." Both have some real implications for HR, but the...
I just found out that an exempt staff member was fired yesterday, on Sept 1st. (I don't know the story, but I think it was because he refused to do certain...
I have been trying to relate to this discussion for some time and seemed to be missing something. Two things come to mind. The "top table" seems to equate to...
What state are you in? If you are in California, you owe all pay and vacation including accrued vacation at the time of termination. There is a penalty for...
Hi, Has anyone dealt with this issue before? My question is specifically about benefits. Since our health care plan doesn't extend into Canada (and Canada has...
Susan Padan
spadan@...
Sep 3, 2004 4:23 pm
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Here is my icq list. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Susan..... You have an interesting question. Years ago when I worked for a company that had a few Canadian employees we did pay them an amount equal to the...
salerno2@...
Sep 3, 2004 5:46 pm
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Employee Reward Programs I understand that quite a number of companies have now eliminated traditional employee reward programs, such as “Employee of the...
Have all the cost-cutting measures affected employee incentive programs in your company? Would you care to describe the Employee Incentive Programs you have in...
Hi Claire, Still there are some organisations which have Reward programs in place. But most of the organisations, as you say have programs directly related to...
shobana@...
Sep 4, 2004 4:05 am
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Paul and Susan - If I understood Susan's question correctly, she is saying that she has a Canadian citizen working in the US office of a US company, on US...
Here's a great opportunity that some of you may be interested in. I'm on the planning committee for a wonderful upcoming conference in San Francisco, on...
President Bush has announced something of crucial importance to employers and employees alike: That he plans to implement a system whereby workers will not...
In Australia health insurance is not related to employment at all. Everyone pays 1.5% of their taxable income to the Government as a Medicare levy. People...
Ailsa Turrell
ailsat@...
Sep 5, 2004 3:09 am
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Ailsa, Thank you for the detailed explanations (very thorough). My mistake: I omitted saying that it is about pension funds and medical benefits above and...
in Australia only a few large private sector employers pay for private health insurance and my previous explanation regarding superannuation stands - all...
Ailsa Turrell
ailsat@...
Sep 5, 2004 6:16 am
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Hi Claire, Situation in Europe looks a bit the same as in Israel but still different. For instance in Holland it is possible that an employer provides a...
Gijs Houtzagers
gijs@...
Sep 5, 2004 6:38 am
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I thought to share with you a past favourite passtime of mine (since childhood), which I neglected for many years, but for some reason resumed this morning...
Hi Claire, In Asia and the Pacific, especially in our country, pension, retirement, life/ accident insurance, and medical insurance benefits are being given in...
Dear comrades in HR, I am from Malaysia and wish to compare the various avenues available for employees who consider themselves as "unfairly dismissed" in the...
Reinstatement is nearly impossible in Holland. The relation with the employer is damaged so it is no use to get reinstated. It is however possible to claim...
Gijs Houtzagers
gijs@...
Sep 6, 2004 4:31 pm
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Dear Fellow-subscribers For world news I found that watch.org, worldnetdaily.com and honestreporting.com, give me instant important news and links of the day....
HRNET'ers: What are your thoughts on the value of going on benchmarking trips to other companies? I honestly have never been on one and have found myself in...
Hi Michelle (and others :-)) What are your thoughts on the value of going on benchmarking trips to other companies? They are an excuse for Senior Managers to...