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How to Have Difficult Financial Planning Conversations with Aging Parents

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In some cases, they opt to organize family meetings in which everyone can be clear about responsibilities such as who will oversee health and legal decisions for parents, parental wishes for living arrangements, their available resources including various types of insurance, and how inheritances will be apportioned.

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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. Health insurance forms.

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

BMT Office Administration

Legal consult proves especially helpful in matters involving the organization’s litigation hold policy. Their advice places a legal hold on physical and electronic records that should not be deleted because of potential future use. When constructing your policy, examine legal and regulatory guidelines. Per the U.S.

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Stay organized and secure with electronic records management

BMT Office Administration

Jan bit her lip and hoped that Laura had not accidentally tossed evidence the legal department might need in a harassment lawsuit. The second action opens up the company to potential legal and regulatory problems. Some types of business records, such as tax forms and legal documents, are relatively easy to spot. OSHA forms.

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Menopause gift bags and monitoring toilet breaks: why are employers getting menopause support so wrong?

Workplace Insight

This means that there is no legal obligation for employers to support employees going through the menopause unless the effects on a particular employee are so severe that they meet the definition of a disability under the Equality Act 2010 or they constitute a health and safety concern.

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New Hire Overload

Laughing all the Way to Work

As I was going through the manual, I saw chapters on office procedures, confidentiality, health and safety, security and more. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. The Human Resources Director pointed me to a small office and I was left alone to read what must have been 200 pages.