absenteeism policy

• State ex rel. Jacobs v. Indus. Comm. of Ohio & Cenveo Inc., (Ohio 2012)

Industrial Commission did not abuse its discretion in denying relator's request for TTD compensation where relator's violation of employer's absenteeism policy amounted to a voluntary abandonment of employment. Writ of mandamus denied.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Our Views ; Education Unions Control State Policy; Absenteeism Is a Costly Problem; Senators Should Have Addressed It

EARLIER this year, Kanawha County School Superintendent Ron Duerring testified before the Senate Education Committee that 200 to 300 of the county's 2,000 teachers abuse paid leave. This helps drive the cost of substitutes to $4.6 million a year - $23 million over five years. That's money that cannot be spent for other purposes.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• April 02, 2013

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• Ohio Supreme Court

• 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

• Taking FMLA Leave Does Not Affect Employee's Obligations Under Non-FMLA Attendance Policies

... 2006, the CWA revised its Sickness & Absenteeism Policy to require employees on paid sick leave to ...

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• Labour and Employment

• 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