absenteeism policy

• School Officials Want Policy Grace Period Absenteeism Rules May Be Phased In

For now, Columbia County school and legal officials want to loosen the stringent standards of a new absenteeism policy. In a Truancy Protocol Committee meeting Thursday, Columbia County school Superintendent Tommy Price asked the committee's members to relax the standards by which a student can miss school for the current school year.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• September 22, 2005

• Absenteeism

...DEVELOPING AN ABSENCE POLICY. Many small business owners do not establish absen...

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• A-I

• Enforcement to Become Stricter

A tougher absenteeism policy enacted in Columbia County last school year will get tougher enforcement in the upcoming school year. In May 2005, the Columbia County school board adopted an absenteeism policy recommended by a committee of school and law enforcement officials for the 2005-06 year.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• June 01, 2006

• Brooks v. Qualchoice, Inc., (Ohio 2005)

Civ.R. 12(B)(6), motion to dismiss, failure to state a claim, temporary total disability, terminated, inability to work, absenteeism, public policy, Workers’ Compensation Act, R.C. 4123.90, wrongful discharge, statutory remedy.

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• Your Letters

Schools should enforce lice policy A recent article about how we have relaxed the longstanding policy of keeping children with the eggs of lice present in their hair from attending school is another example of lowering the standards to accommodate people who are unwilling to rise to the occasion ("Local schools relax lice policy to combat absenteeism," March 3).

• Dayton Daily News
• March 18, 2009

• Teacher Planning Wouldn't Cut Class

Keeping students in class was the theme of two items at a Columbia County Board of Education meeting Tuesday. Officials discussed abandoning a proposal for the early release of elementary-school pupils for teacher planning and loosened the restrictions of a recently adopted absenteeism policy.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• September 24, 2005

• New Jersey Supreme Court Rules 'Good Faith' Claim Required in Retaliation Cases

In cases alleging retaliation under state law, a plaintiff must show that his underlying claim of discrimination was made reasonably and in good faith, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled. The plaintiff, a hotel desk clerk, was a recovering cocaine user prone to relapses. He had missed work on several occasions and built up enough progressive discipline points to warrant termination. Rather than exploring the possibility of an approved medical leave to treat his cocaine dependency, the plaintiff complained to the employer's equal employment opportunity office that the absenteeism/ termination policy was being unfairly applied to him due to racism.

• Lawyers USA
• March 13, 2007

• Board Will Phase in Absence Policy

Letting students out of school and keeping them in were topics of discussion for the Columbia County School Board at a Tuesday meeting. The board accepted changes to a new absenteeism policy that makes it more difficult for students to miss school and examined an alternate proposal to a teacher collaboration plan that keeps elementary pupils in class.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• September 22, 2005

• Raglin Calls Debate a 'Distraction', Duerring Met with Union Leaders to Discuss Policy

Kanawha County school board President Bill Raglin believes the recent debate over a policy proposal on employee absenteeism acts as a "distraction" from next week's election. We have much bigger issues to deal with," Raglin said. "We should be looking at what the candidates' beliefs are and what they stand for less than a week away from this election.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• May 07, 2004

• Dotson, Brian v. BRP US Inc, (7th Cir. 2008)

... of time allowed by the company's absenteeism policy, which tracks the time allotted by the Fami...

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