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ENDNOTES
1. John Pletz, Workers, Go Home, Crain s
Chicago Business 34, no. 8 (February 21,
2011), pp. 2, 14.
2. Based on Frederick Hills, Thomas
Bergmann, and Vida Scarpello, Compensation
Decision Making (Fort Worth, TX:
The Dryden Press, 1994), p. 424. See also
Fay Hansen, The Cutting Edge of Benefit
Cost Control, Workforce, March 2003,
pp. 36 42; Crain s Benefits Outlook 2009,
www.crainsbenefits.com/news/surveyfinds-nearly-20-percent-of-employersplan-to-drop-health-benefits.php,
accessed July 28, 2009.
3. Survey Finds 99 Percent of Employers Providing
Health-Care Benefits, Compensation
& Benefits Review, September/October
2002, p. 11. See also National Compensation
Survey: Employee Benefits in Private
Industry in the United States, March 2006,
U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics, August 2006.
4. Costs This Year Increased at Highest Rate
Since 2004, Survey Reveals, HR Focus 88,
no. 1 (January 10, 2011); Employee Medical
Costs Expected to Increase by 8.5 Percent in
2012, According to PwC , http://www.pwc.
com/us/en/pressreleases/2011/employermedical-costs-expected-to-increase.jhtml
accessed September 14, 2011.
5. Trouble Ahead? Dissatisfaction with
Benefits, Compensation, HR Trendbook,
2008, p. 16.
6. Joseph Martocchio, Strategic Compensation
(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 2001), p. 262.
7. California Domestic Partner Benefits
Mandate Carries Likely Impact Beyond
State s Borders, BNA Bulletin to Management,
November 6, 2003, p. 353.
8. Pletz, Workers, Go Home.
9. Ibid.
10. HR Plays a Major Role in Curbing Company
Unemployment Insurance Costs,
Analysts Say, BNA Bulletin to Management,
August 3, 2010, pp. 241 242.
11. www.bls.gov/opub/perspectives/issue2.
pdf, accessed June 1, 2011.
12. Ibid.
13. www.bls.gov/opub/perspectives/issue2.
pdf, accessed June 1, 2011.
14. Ken Belson, At IBM, a Vacation Anytime,
or Maybe No Vacation at All, The New
York Times, August 31, 2007, pp. A1 A18.
15. National Compensation Survey: Employee
Benefits in Private Industry in the United
States, March 2006, U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, August, 2006, p. 116. See also
Spurious Sick-Notes Spiral Upwards, The
Safety and Health Practitioner 22, no. 6
(June 2004), p. 3.
16. Unscheduled Employee Absences Cost
Companies More Than Ever, Compensation
& Benefits Review, March/April
2003, p. 19; Robert Grossman, Gone but
Not Forgotten, HRMagazine 56, no. 9
(September 2011), pp. 34 46.
17. Making Up for Lost Time: How Employers
Can Curb Excessive Unscheduled Absences,
BNA Human Resources Report, October 20,
2003, p. 1097. See also W. H. J. Hassink et
al., Do Financial Bonuses Reduce
Employee Absenteeism? Evidence from a
Lottery, Industrial and Labor Relations
Review 62, no. 3 (April 2009), pp. 327 342.
18. SHRM Benefits Survey Finds Growth in
Employer Use of Paid Leave Pools, BNA
Bulletin to Management, March 21, 2002,
p. 89.
19. See M. Michael Markowich and Steve
Eckberg, Get Control of the Absentee-
Minded, Personnel Journal, March 1996,
pp. 115 120; Exploring the Pluses,
Minuses, and Myths of Switching to Paid
Time Off Banks, BNA Bulletin to
Management 55, no. 25 (June 17, 2004),
pp. 193 194.
20. Society for Human Resource Management
2009 employee benefits survey,
quoted in Martha Frase, Taking Time
Off to the Bank, HR Magazine, March
2010, p. 42.
21. Creating Holistic Time Off Programs Can
Significantly Reduce Expenses, Compensation
& Benefits Review, July/August 2007,
pp. 18 19.
22. See, for example, Rita Zeidner, Strategies
for Saving in a Down Economy, HR
Magazine, February 2009, p. 28.
23. Judith Whitaker, How HR Made a
Difference, People Management 27
(October 28, 2010).
24. Ibid.
25. The Department of Labor updated its
revised regulations for administering
the Family and Medical Leave Act in
November 2008. See DOL Issues Long-
Awaited Rules; Address a Serious Health
Condition, Many Other Issues, BNA
Bulletin to Management, November 18,
2008, p. 369. In 2008, Congress amended
the family and medical leave act to
include, among other things, leave rights
particularly for military families. See
Sarah Martin, FMLA Protection Recently
Expanded to Military Families: Qualifying
Exigency and Service Member Family
Leave, Compensation & Benefits Review,
September/October 2009, pp. 43 51.
26. Ten Years After It Was Signed into Law,
FMLA Needs Makeover, Advocates
Contend, BNA Bulletin to Management,
February 20, 2003, p. 58.
27. HR Professionals Face Sundry Challenges
Administering FMLA Leave, Survey
Asserts, BNA Bulletin to Management,
July 20, 2007, p. 233.
28. Based on Dennis Grant, Managing
Employee Leaves: A Legal Primer, Compensation
& Benefits Review 35, no. 4 (2003),
p. 41. There are several unresolved issues
in what 12 months employment means.
For example, several courts recently held
that an employee can count previous
periods of employment with the employer
to satisfy the 12-month requirement. See
Daniel Ritter et al., Recent Developments
Under the Family and Medical Leave
Act, Compensation & Benefits Review,
September/October 2007, p. 33.
29. Gillian Flynn, Employers Need an
FMLA Brush-Up, Workforce, April 1997,
pp. 101 104. See also Worker Who Was
Employee for Less Than One Year Can
Pursue FMLA Claim, Federal Court
Determines, BNA Fair Employment Practices,
April 26, 2001, p. 51.
30. Workers Who Come and Go Under
FMLA Complicate Attendance Policies,
Lawyer Says, BNA Bulletin to Management,
March 16, 2000, p. 81.
31. Sue Shellenbarger, The Mommy Drain:
Employers Beef Up Perks to Lure New
Mothers Back to Work, The Wall Street
Journal, September 28, 2006, p. D1.
32. Jill Fisher, Reconciling the Family Medical
Leave Act with Overlapping or Conflicting
State Leave Laws, Compensation & Benefits
Review, September/October 2007, pp. 39 44.
33. Severance Practices, BNA Bulletin to
Management, January 11, 1996, pp. 12 13;
and Neil Grossman, Shrinking the Workforce
in an Economic Slowdown, Compensation
& Benefits Review, Spring 2002,
pp. 12 23.
34. Severance Pay, July 2007, Culpepper
Compensation & Benefits Surveys.
35. Terry Baglieri, Severance Pay, www.
SHRM.org, accessed December 23, 2006.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. Workers Compensation Costs Are Rising
Faster Than Wages, BNA Bulletin to
Management, July 31, 2003, p. 244.
39. Workers Comp Claims Rise with Layoffs,
But Employers Can Identify, Prevent
Fraud, BNA Bulletin to Management,
October 4, 2001, p. 313.
40. Firms Cite Own Efforts as Key to
Controlling Costs, BNA Bulletin to
Management, March 21, 1996, p. 89. See
also Workers Compensation Outlook:
Cost Control Persists, BNA Bulletin
to Management, January 30, 1997,
pp. 33 44; and Annmarie Lipold, The
Soaring Costs of Workers Comp,
Workforce, February 2003, p. 42ff.
41. Using Case Management in Workers
Compensation, BNA Bulletin to Management,
June 6, 1996, p. 181; for other
tactics, see for example, H. Jorgensen,
Overhauling Claims Management. Risk
Management 54, no. 7 (July 2007), p. 50.
42. Workers Comp Research Provides
Insight into Curbing Health Care Costs,
EHS Today, February 2010, p. 18.
43. Hills, Bergmann, and Scarpello, Compensation
Decision Making, p. 137.
44. Costs This Year Increased at Highest
Rate Since 2004, Survey Reveals,
Focus 88, no. 1 (January 10, 2011).
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