Course Project The Compensation and Benefits of the Dooly County School System [pic] Renee Bowens HRM430 Professor Eureka Hampton August 16, 2009 DeVry University Abstract This report will show what compensation and benefits are offered to the employees of Dooly County. It will also show how a sick leave bank would benefit the employees that have exhausted their sick and personal leave days in order to care for themselves or their families. I hope this paper will show readers that although Dooly County is a small rural county, they can compete with other school systems with their compensation and benefits. The Dooly County School System is a small organization that employs from 200 to 300 employees. These employees …show more content…
The superintendent, directors, principals, clerical staff, and maintenance workers receive ten (10) days vacations. Custodians that are twelve-month employees receive five (5) days paid vacation. Twelve-month employees receive their vacation days at the start of the new fiscal year which begins on July 1st. “Benefits available through payroll deductions are classified as two types (mandatory or voluntary” (Personnel Handbook, 2008). Mandatory deductions are required by law. The mandatory reductions are federal income tax withholding and state income tax withholding, teacher’s retirement, public school employees retirement, social security/old age, survivors death insurance tax, and Medicare tax. “All full time employees have the opportunity to elect to participate in voluntary deductions” (Personnel Handbook, 2008). Some of the voluntary deductions include dental insurance, credit union, disability insurance, life insurance, medical/hospitalization, and etc. Although the compensation and benefits that the school system in Dooly County provides for their employees are good, there is always room for improvement. A benefit that would help the employees would be a sick leave bank or donated leave pool. “The purpose of the donated leave pool is to provide a means or employees to donate and receive paid leave to alleviate hardships caused to an employee or the employee’s family if an illness or injury forces and employee to exhaust all earned leave time”
This leave entitles employees to a 12 week unpaid leave within a 12 month period. It is 26 weeks for service men and women and their families. There are several components of this law that pertain to the number of employees, location of employees and the amount of time an employee has at their place of employment. Some employers may require you to use any accrued sick time, personal days or vacation time before the unpaid period
A vacation of two weeks after 12 months of service and within the following 10 months or, if the employee has been employed with the same employer longer than 8 years, a vacation of at least three weeks
PTO time will allow employees more flexibility when it comes to vacation time, emergencies, and even schedules events that require the individual to miss work. These twelve days will help the employee’s better plan his/ her vacation and other scheduled commitments and drastically reduce the number of unscheduled days off since all the days in one category instead of only allowing five sick days and seven vacation days. However, there will still be some days that the employees cannot request off in advance, but this policy would allow the employee a certain time period to tell the employer they cannot make it to work on a given day. By offering this type of time off structure, it will help the employer more time to plan and prepare for the staff shortage in a more efficient manner. Also, paid time off helps the employer and employee not have to differentiate what is acceptable and applicable to a holiday and sick day and it will help motivate the employees to not use a sick day unless he/ she is actually sick (Hulett, 2007). Therefore, if an employee is rarely sick, then that employee will have more vacation time to use
Paid time off (PTO) is the employer pools sick days, vacation days, and personal days that allows the employees to utilize upon need. this policy pertains mainly in USA as such no legal requirement for minimum number of paid vacation days. the PTO works best in the culture and accountable employee’s environment existing. US companies determine the amount off the pay day off that will be allocated to each employee. In general way PTO system cover, everything from planned vacation to sick leaves .and are becoming more common in human resources management. unlike traditional more plans leave, PTO doesn’t distinguish employee’s absences from personal days or vacation days or sick days. per study conducted in 2010 by WorldatWork, 44% of 387 companies surveyed said they started using PTO bank-type plans prior to year 2000. (Wikipedia -paid of time).
If employees use this leave and regular FMLA leave during the year, they are entitled only to 26 wks. Of leave total, and no more than 12 of those weeks may be used for regular FMLA leave with special rules for public and private school employees.
Cleveland Clinic financial activities at the local, state and federal levels are primarily focused in the areas of healthcare delivery system reforms. Specifically, they are interested in issues related to access to healthcare, patient outcomes, quality of care, wellness, health information technology adoption, physician education and provider reimbursements (Clinic, 2017). Also, these activities can take many forms including support of legislation, providing comment on proposed regulations, participating in ad hoc committees, and offering testimony in state and federal legislative committee hearings. Cleveland Clinic participates in
After analyzing the attached comparison chart, the Spokane School District compares to the other districts as for absences. However, Spokane’s population and number of certified staff is greatly fewer than that of Belton and Neosho district. The areas of significant differences are; number of sick and personal days allowed to be accumulated and number of days available for funeral/death leave.
The latter change is particularly noteworthy, as it now entitles Ontario employees to 10 personal emergency leave (PEL) days in a calendar year, with the first two being paid equal to the wages earned if an employee wasn’t absent. Previously, the criteria for taking PEL days only applied to employees in workplaces with more than 50 employees and were unpaid for PEL.
provides personal incentives to keep employees motivated. Employees receive paid time off depending on their position, length of employment, and number of hours worked. Employees also receive paid holidays. If employees are faced with unexpected hardships or required duties such as military leave, employees may request a leave of absence.
This memo is regarding the use of Floating Holidays by exempt staff. Effective January 1, 2017 there will be some changes to the use of Floating Holidays. As noted in the Employee Policy Handbook – at the beginning each calendar quarter (January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1) all eligible staff are credited one (1) floating holiday, which can be taken at any time during the quarter. New employees hired on or before the 15th of the second month in the quarter will be eligible for the floating holiday for that quarter.
In practice, all employees are required to use at least 5 days of their allotted sick leave to cover the elimination period for Short-term Disability. When Bonnie’s leave commenced on Dec 20, 2016, she had exhausted all of her paid sick leave (80 hrs). Because she was not actively at work, she did not receive holiday pay. However, upon her return she was issued her incentive bonus which was paid Feb 3, 2017.
One can treat employees as adults who uses Paid Time Off at their discretion without oversight. Managers are not put in the position of having to police the employees. They do not have to oversee their benefits or paid time off. PTO gives the employer some control over unscheduled absences, a serious problem, and cost for many. Employees can schedule time off in advance which assists with work coverage. Employees value the flexibility that PTO provides. It gives them the option of using the paid time off when they most need it—whether to care for a sick child who can't go to daycare or to take a vacation with the family at the
28 days holiday (paid) for full time employees (part-time employees would receive this on a pro rata basis);
Employees who take personal time away from work due to illness, your child’s illness, doctor appointments that are not made up, bereavement time for a funeral, or any other personal issues that arise may use PTO time to replace hours not worked. This is a benefit paid for time loss over and above vacation and holiday pay. PTO hours are not accrued during the year, but rather granted in full on January 1st. The number of PTO hours available will be shown on your pay stub.
Tri-County School Corporation, centered in Wolcott, IN, is exactly what one would expect from a small, rural school. Class sizes are small, students know the names of everyone in their grade level, and it’s not uncommon for teachers to also teach the nieces, nephews, and even children of their former students. And, like most small schools in Indiana, Tri-County is entrenched in the crisis that is the Hoosier education system.