Employee Handbook for ABC Corporation

Employee Handbook for ABC Corporation

            The fair labor standards act (FLSA) initiates the lowest salary, overtime payment, recordkeeping, and youth employment level affecting the federal, local, and state government employees. The minimum wage requirement by the FLSA is $7.25 per hour, which was passed on July 24, 2009. Most of the Sates have this law, although some provide more employee protection, and the employer is required to comply with both. Employees under this act must receive overtime payments for over 40 hours worked in a week. The rate should not be less than time and one half of their basic rate of pay.

The act states that employees must get their minimum salary, and they should not work for more than 40 hours weekly without receiving the overtime payment at their regular rate. The net wage that each employee gets should depend on the number of hours he/she has worked. Mealtime should be paid for as working time while meeting time is voluntary should not be paid for. Every employer under this act must keep records for each non-exempt worker. There is no specific form of these records, but they should entail data, including the number of hours worked and wages given or expected.

The ABC corporation should be committed to agreeing with employee’s compensation laws and offer the benefits associated with injuries occurring within the scope of the company. It should provide the workers’ information regarding compensational insurance in case of an emergency. This policy ensures timely reporting, treatment, and investigation necessary to offer competent employees compensational benefits.

The corporation has the mandate of purchasing the insurance for all the employees from a worker’s compensation insurance carrier. When an employee gets involved in work-related accidents, his/her case is filed with the insurance company, which caters to the medical treatment of the worker.

It is the responsibility of the worker to report any injuries and diseases. Such cases should be immediately reported once they occur to the manager. The manager is required to fill a report with the required details of the occurrence of the accident. It will be acted upon within a better frame of time as following allegations might be denied. The employer has the right to choose the healthcare and the doctor to offer services to the employee. Payment will only be made to authorized medical centers. In case the worker chooses an unauthorized doctor, it will be his/her responsibility.

Workers returning to full-time work after absence due to work-related injuries, unpaid time-off will be provided or charged to sick leave. It will be an unpaid off. The corporation has the right to take a drug test when an accident occurs within the scope of the organization. Body samples like blood may be necessary to carry out the test. Therefore the worker must obey the rules and guidelines set by the worker’s compensation insurer. If it is found that the employee was under the influence of drugs when the accident occurred and if it were related to the use of drugs, the employee would not receive the compensation benefits.

Employment security is established by the employment security department, which provides salary replacement payments to workers who lose their job, and it was not their fault. Employees discharged due to specific reasons are not entitled to the unemployment benefits (Aleixo, 2018). One is required to write the information needed by the agency to start the payments. The application can also be made online using a mobile phone. The corporation is required to make payments to the state unemployment insurance funds on behalf of the employee.

The” employee retirement income security act” (ERISA) is a body the regulated employers who offer retirement benefit plans for their employees.  The corporation, under its management, provides a retirement plan to its employees. The amount of the money contributed to the retirement fund, as decided by the administration, is 10% of total monthly income. The company also has the responsibility to manage this investment and ensure that it will be enough to cater for the promised benefit. On the other hand, the employee is responsible for supervising the finance in her account and choosing options offered by the plan.

The benefits entirely are dependent on the contributions made by the employer in concern of the worker, the accounts performance, and the number of charges the account is entitled to.  The payment plan advised to the retiree of our corporation is monthly payments that continue for life. However, one may choose other payment options like balance transfer into an individual account. In case one leaves after investing in retirement benefit, the worker should claim for the amount as the plan taken by the corporation provides early retirement benefits. Some workers may desire to transfer the whole balance to their account, and this amount will be exposed to taxes and possible penalties, reducing the income (U.S. Department of Labor, 2017). Therefore, in case such happens, we advise our employees to transfer in small portions.

When employees’ rights are violated, or the worker is exposed to one of the FLSA violations, he/she is supposed to file the matter to the violations department within the organization. The employee is supposed to present the case and forward it immediately, where the report should be assessed in four to eight days. A meeting with the parties should be held where investigation and submission of the report will follow. The parties will be required to submit any response to the report filed, and the administrative record will be awaited. The report will then be forwarded to the hearing panel, and the determination date will be set. The last meeting after the hearing will be held for the board to give their decision, which can either be sanction or resolve the appeal.

When an employee is exposed to the work-related injury, he/she is supposed to file the injury immediately as the case might be denied in case of a delay. The claim should be submitted to the employee’s manager, who then forwards it to the appropriate office. We decide on the hospital and the doctor to attend the employee who is authorized by our insurer. The employee must be subject to given drug tests to ensure that during the accident, he/she was not under drug influence. During the treatment, it is mandatory to follow the given prescriptions and required therapy. The employee must return to work after release by the doctor otherwise will be considered absent without permission. The corporation believes that absenteeism of three consecutive days is a voluntary resignation.  Complying with these conditions is a mandatory requirement for all employees in the company. Failure to commit to them may result in disciplinary action.