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Employer Sends Invoice to Former Employee – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

Before this job, I worked in the government sector from 2006 to 2010. I left in 2010 because of an illness. I recently received a letter from the finance department of my former employer stating that they overpaid my sick leave benefits during my course of employment and I owe them $18,500. Hi Sharlyn.

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Kingsley Napley introduces enhanced time-off for dependents policy

Employee Benefits

Through the firm’s enhanced scheme, its employees with parental or caring responsibilities are able to take five days of paid leave per calendar year to support dependents who have a physical or mental illness or injury, a disability as defined in the Equality Act 2010), have care needs due to old age, or are under the age of 18.

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Lovewell’s logic: Who is caring for unpaid carers?

Employee Benefits

Between 2010 and 2020, more than 1.9 million people in paid employment became unpaid carers each year, according to Census data. How many employees in your organisation have unpaid care responsibilities? One in seven carers , meanwhile, juggle work and care, according to Carers UK’s report State of caring , published in November 2022.

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Competitive Employee Benefits Key During Tepid Economic Recovery

Insperity

According to the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finance —a detailed look at American wealth undertaken every three years—the median American family had the same amount of money in 2010 as it did in 1992. 77,300: Net worth of the median family in 2010, a 40 percent drop. 55,000: Median home equity in 2010, a 42.3

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The importance of disability insurance

Higginbotham

Bureau of Labor Statistics, 33 percent of private industry workers have 15 to 19 days of paid vacation days after 10 years at the company. The FMLA doesn’t guarantee paid leave. Under the Family and Medical Leave Act, eligible workers have the right to take up to 12 weeks of job-protected leave due to health issues.

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What HR needs to know about parental bereavement leave

cipHR

Parents and primary carers who have been employed for a continuous period of at least 26 weeks prior to when the child dies, and have received pay above the lower earnings limit for the previous eight weeks, are entitled to at least two weeks’ statutory paid leave.