Archive for July, 2008

SF City Overtime Redux

Posted by Lori Dorn on July 30th, 2008

Looks like the overtime for some San Francisco city employees has once again become excessive. This seems to happen every year. This year the Supervisors are actually looking at doing something about it.
From SFGate:
The city’s spending on overtime has increased sharply since 2000, and the Board of Supervisors will hear a proposal this [...]

Governor Threatens Federal Minimum Wage

Posted by Lori Dorn on July 24th, 2008

In an effort to save the state of California money, Governor Schwarzenegger has indicated that will sign an Executive Order that would call for all state government workers to be paid the federal minimum wage ($6.55/hour as of today) rate until a budget agreement is reached between the Democrats and Republicans. Why not [...]

Paranoid?

Posted by Lori Dorn on July 24th, 2008

Step Right Up

Posted by Lori Dorn on July 23rd, 2008

The HR Carnival has set up its big top and the show is about to start.

In a precedent setting decision, the 4th District Court of Appeals determined today that California employers are no longer responsible for for ensuring that their employees take meal breaks but rather, just that the meal breaks are available for the employees to use without any interference from the employer.
From the California Chamber of [...]

DHS v. SHRM

Posted by Lori Dorn on July 18th, 2008

Oh boy. This looks like a good one. Stewart Baker, Assistant Secretary for Policy at the Department of Homeland Security really threw down the gauntlet regarding SHRM’s (Society for Human Resources Management) opposition to E-Verify when he made this statement:
SHRM lobbies for the HR execs who do corporate hiring. It also opposes [...]

Cintas & Hayward Living Wage

Posted by Lori Dorn on July 16th, 2008

I wrote about this quite awhile ago.
In this particular case, a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 219 Cintas employees who alleged that they were not appropriately because they had not been paid according to the living wage as was determined by the city of Hayward, CA.
These workers, although not [...]

Too Old for Google?

Posted by Lori Dorn on July 16th, 2008

Valleywag actually brings up an interesting point here. Does Google promote age discrimination with its “Work Hard, Play Hard” tag line?
I must admit that I’ve been incredibly annoyed at Valleywag lately due to personal reasons, but I give them due credit for attempting to connect the the dots from a recruiting strategy [...]

New I-9 Form

Posted by Lori Dorn on July 9th, 2008

Found here. Must be used starting…well, last week. 7/1/2008.
Forgive me. I was on vacation. From everything.

Carla Zilbersmith

Posted by Lori Dorn on July 9th, 2008

Today I was reading an article about a performer in the Bay Area by the name of Carla Zilbersmith who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the same disease that took my mother’s life in 2002.
Normally I stay away from anything that refers to the disease as it makes me way, way too upset. [...]


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