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Labor Law Update - FMLA, ADA, Workers' Comp - An Integrated Approach
Sick Leave Abuse - A Chronic Workplace Ill?
Technical Corner - Attendance Reporting in NOVAtime
Did you Know - Points or No-Fault Attendance Policies
Just in Time - Avoiding Summertime Sports Related Injuries
Ask the Expert - Questions and Answers from our April Newsletter

Welcome
Welcome to the May edition of The Cincinnati Times. Our thanks to those of you who submitted questions to our Ask the Expert column.

We will be continuing this forum as a regular part of the newsletter. We'll bring in the best person to answer your question so while all of us are concerned about Labor Law Issues, there is no need to limit ourselves to just this area. Feel free to submit a question on any workplace topic.

If you would like to contribute an article or have an idea on how to improve this publication, please let us know. Thank you again, we are pleased to work with you.

Best regards,

Mike Lahm, President
mlahm@cintime.com
(800) 454-8463 ext. 102

Lynette Mace, Editor
lmace@cintime.com

FMLA, ADA Workers' Compensation - How to make sure you are compliant
Employers may not be familiar with the overlap and areas of commonality between ADA and FMLA that require an employer to adopt an integrated approach to achieve compliance with both statutes. If an injury occurs in the workplace it becomes even more complicated. Click here to help unravel these issues.

Sick Leave Abuse
Unscheduled absenteeism can cost employers $602 per employee per year. Are you doing all you can to prevent this? Here are some ideas that may help.

Technical Corner
Using NOVAtime's Human Resource Attendance Review Report to spot patterns of abuse. Click here for the details.

Did You Know?
ADI and NOVAtime offer modules that can automate your attendance policies. These "Points" modules allow you to set up rules that assign a point value to an attendance exception. When an employee accumulates a set number of points an action can be specified. These sets of rules may be called a Points System, No-Fault Attendance Policy or Demerit System. They are designed to take the subjective element out of the attendance disciplinary process. Automating this process insures that offenders are identified quickly, before the problem gets out of control. For more information please contact your account representative.

Avoiding Summertime Injuries
So what are some ways you can avoid an injury happening to you? Click here to read the article.

Ask the Expert - Questions and Answers from the April Cincinnati Times:

The question below was submitted by Sara Van LeeWuen of the Physicians Partner Group in Indianapolis. Our thanks to Steve Richey, a partner with Thompson Hine for this response.

I was looking at the article on record keeping and wondered if you had any specific information regarding the necessity of keeping timesheets that were signed by the employee on file or if electronic records were acceptable. I attended a wage and hour law seminar in 2004 and at that time they were teaching that a signed hard copy of the timesheet had to be kept on file and electronic records could not be used. I have been looking for any documentation that might support allowing us to use the submit and approve functions of Novatime rather than print and keep the hard copies. I also wondered if these had to be kept for Exempt employees at all since the article here was specific to non exempt employees.

Go here for the answer

This next question was submitted by Linda Nixon from UC. For a response we went to Bob Wirth, our corporate accountant. Bob is a CPA and President of Wirth, Lowe and Wissemeier.

We have a physician who was employed here for several years. He recently accepted a position in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. However, he is still providing services to us via phone, conference via computer cam, etc. If we continue to consider him as an employee, what taxes should we access?

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