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Employee personnel files — what should and shouldn’t be included

BMT Office Administration

While some variance may occur between companies, certain papers commonly belong in these files and some definitely do not. For instance, employers cannot include medical information in an employee’s general personnel file due to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Medical leave of absence requests. Doctor’s notes.

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

Success

Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. The prospect is now a patient and has referred dozens of friends. Here’s an example: “Hi, I’m Jenny.

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Employee Files: What to include, what to leave out, and what’s confidential

BMT Office Administration

Besides that, your confidential medical records will let you know if any team members have disabilities that you need to consider when planning and assigning tasks. If so, then you’ll definitely want to have the proper documents on-hand to defend your managers.

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Podcast 141: Quarantine organizing

Clutter Coach

Note that medications should be separated out and taken to your local pharmacy for disposal, or whatever the recommendation is in your area. My categories are hair products, lotion and sunblock, face products, soap, cosmetics and medications. Ladies, it’s likely you’ll find a substantial collection of beauty products and hair goo.

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It’s time to review (or create) your document retention policy

BMT Office Administration

Employers covered by the Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ) are required to make, keep and preserve certain records pertaining to their obligations under the law. Basically, the term refers to evidence of business-related activities, such as events, transactions, discussions, and communications. Per the U.S. Department of Labor.

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Stay organized and secure with electronic records management

BMT Office Administration

Basically, the term refers to evidence of business-related activities, such as events, transactions, discussions, and communications. Be certain employees know not only your organization’s precise definition of a business record but also the various forms such records may take. Figuring out what to keep and for how long. OSHA forms.

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Start the New Year off with a New Focus on Your Personal Affairs.

Stephanie LH Calahan

.  Here are a few tips to get started: Set up a filing system to store and manage your paperwork Your paperwork likely consists of three types of paper:  1) stuff you need to take action on 2) stuff you are saving for reference and 3) stuff that you should have tossed a long time ago, but haven't.    Avoid backlog. 

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