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Setting up a "Stay Package" for Employees
(This question came to me from an HR practitioner Anonymously) We are interested in creating a stay package for one of our business units; we have not done this in the past,…
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Paid Maternity Leave
I am looking to update our paid maternity leave. I was curious as to how other companies structure paid maternity leave. Can you share your thoughts and policies? (How long, full or partial wages,…
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Mandatory Direct Deposit
I work in HR for a Manufacturing Plant in Florence, KY with our home office in San Antonio TX. The problem we have is that payroll is processed in San Antonio,…
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Bereavement Leave
I am in the process of evaluating our bereavement leave policy, which allows for the typical 3 day paid leave for the death of an immediate family member.…
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Part-Time PTO
Our current PTO policy only applies to regular, full-time employees but we are considering adding a PTO policy/benefit for part-time employees. Does anyone have any PTO policies for part-time…
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HSA Employer Contribution
For those who offer an employer contribution for HSA's: do you require employees to contribute to their HSA in order to receive the employer contribution? Either way,…
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Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) Funding Policy
HR Colleagues, We've recently had much discussion regarding the employer HSA funding we offer our staff who are enrolled on our HDHP plan. We give employees on a single HDHP plan $550 annually and…
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Specialty Pharmacy
We are looking over our plan set up in regards to our pharmacy plans. We are currently on three tiers but looking to go to 4 or 5 tiers. Has anyone done this? What was the outcome?
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Average severance offered
We haven't revisited a few facets of our severance policy in quite some time and was looking to see what most of you were offering in severance per years of service.…
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Accrued PTO position moving to unlimited PTO
I have a staff member who is moving from a position with limited PTO to a position with unlimited PTO. He carried over 75 hours from 2016. We are located in a state where you pay out accrued,…
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Holiday Pay - spanning across two days
Hi All - I'm curious for anyone who has non-exempt employees who start their shift on a holiday (for example a 2nd shift employee starts their shift on Thanksgiving),…
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Compensation for Hourly Machine Operator Trainer
Does anyone have designated machine operator trainers? If so, do you compensate them for the additional responsibilities? Did you create a new pay range or provide an hourly add-on? i.e. $1/hr
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Payroll Cycles
(This came to me as an Anonymous question. Thanks - Steve) The majority of our company is made up of hourly employees. We have both part-time full time staff in multiple locations over a three state…
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Enhancing Our Current Benefit Offerings
Hello! My team and I are looking to enhance our current benefit offerings. We are a small company - 55 employees in two main locations (Cincinnati and Durham) with 5 remote workers.…
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Tipping Policy
Does anyone have a tipping policy they are willing to share? I have a need for a policy by country (US, Netherlands, Canada, Philippines)
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HSA/FSA/DFSA Vendor Feedback
We've narrowed our selection down to EBC and HealthEquity. I'm looking for some feedback from anyone that's used either one, past or currently. Specifically what employees thought of the customer…
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Leave Policies
One of the most challenging things about managing HR these days seems to be surrounding Leaves of Absence. FMLA, ADA, STD, LTD, you name it in the alphabet soup - it is tough!…
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HSA Fees Benchmarking
We're looking to get some benchmarking data on HSA fees. Our employees are currently charged a one-time fee of $20.00 to set up their HSA and then $3.50/month in fees that are taken out of what they…
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PTO / Holidays And 24/7 Facilities
Hi, looking for help as Lighthouse explores implementing PTO vs separate paid leave banks. For those with direct care (or operational) staff that work on a designated holiday,…
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Exempt employees comp time
Does anyone offer comp time for their exempt employees working weekends or holidays? We have been offering the following: although salaried employees may have to work a weekend now and then without…
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Time Off for Recruiting & Retention Purposes...
We have been getting feedback from candidates along with new and former Associates that our time off benefit may not be as plentiful as they would like.…
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Benefits in Australia
My company is looking to start a division in Australia and I've been tasked with some background HR research. What are the top benefits employers offer in Australia or what benefits should be…
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Maternity and Paternity Leave
Hi All. I am curious what other companies are doing for maternity and paternity leave. Are you offering paid benefits outside of Short Term Disability?…
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Adjusted Full-Time Schedule
I have a full-time exempt employee (working 40 hours per week) who has requested to work 32 hours per week instead. She'll essentially be going from 5 days per week to 4 days per week (she is making…
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Purchase an extra week of vacation
How does it work when you offer employees the opportunity to buy a week's vacation? We are thinking the employees weekly pay would be divided by number of pay periods and this amount deducted from…
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