Motor Vehicles and Employee Risks for your Business
It is becoming more common for employers to require employees to use their personnel motor vehicles for business use. Reimbursement for business use is commonly by way of a kilometre/mileage allowance or a general motor vehicle allowance for the year.Did you know that you can be found vicariously liable for the acts and omissions of your employees driving while driving a motor vehicle for work related business?Even an innocuous journey to pick up the daily mail can be fraught with risk!I this day and age employees cannot always be relied upon to exercise discretion and common sense. It is therefore important that you take some human resource risk strategies to ensure that any risk is mitigated or at least as much as possible.Normally a business motor vehicle policy should set the boundaries of employee use such as;?Is the employee required to use their personal motor vehicle, when and under what circumstances,?Does the employee have comprehensive and replacement insurance for their and any third party damage,?How is the employee to be reimbursed,?Is the reimbursement subject to state or federal taxes,?Does the employee warrant that they hold a valid drivers license for driving their vehicle,?What is your company policy for an employees' loss of drivers' license. This may be due to potential substance abuse, driving under the influence of alcohol or another offence.?Does your employee loosing their drivers license mean termination of employment as driving the motor vehicle is part of their tools of trade??Is the employee required to advise you of any license restriction and demerit points??Do you have a company policy that states that no parking fine, infringement, traffic violation or any other impost federal, state or local will not be paid by the company?By taking time to develop key human resource policies and procedures and by inducting and training your employees you can reduce the potential business and financial risk to your company.For more helpful articles visit www.biz-momentum.com Subscribe to our free monthly newsletter and receive a free template job description or employee performance review..
Philip Lye is the Director of Biz Momentum providing strategic human resource management to help your business grow. Philip is also a qualified accountant. Biz Momentum assist small to medium businesses. Visit http://www.biz-momentum.com for other helpful articles and to subscribe to Biz Momentum's free monthly newsletter and receive a free Employee Performance Appraisal.Philip has considerable cross cultural and international experience.700-Pound Man...100 Pounds Lighter?
42 year old Los Angeles resident Sergio Silva underwent the first stage of his journey toward a better quality of life today at the Center for Surgical Treatment of Obesity. Today Silva underwent an abdominal wall panniculectomy to have 100 pounds of fat removed to prepare him for the Fobi Pouch Gastric Bypass. After Silva heals from the surgery in several months, Dr. Fobi will give him the Fobi Pouch Gastric Bypass. Six years ago Silva weighed 400 pounds and was suffering from hypertension, sleep apnea, chronic heart failure, and diabetes.
He had tried various diets and exercise plans but lost no weight. As his weight continue to increase, the quality of his life started to decrease. "I could not work, walk, or take care of my personal needs because of the obesity," says Silva.Silva, who has a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 85, was refused treatment at other obesity centers because of the high risk of the procedure. Body mass index (BMI) closely correlates with body fat and can help...
700-Pound Man...100 Pounds Lighter?
Health insurance > 700-Pound Man...100 Pounds Lighter?
Highwall Deploys Rogue Detection System for Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Highwall Technologies announced the deployment of its Rogue Detection System at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, an 828-bed regional medical center, is the second-largest acute care public hospital in Florida. Due to the wide spread use of wireless for Patient Care in the Hospital, Rogue Access Points and Clients were a concern. "We were looking for a solution that would gives us 100% coverage of our buildings, and would tie into our existing network management system. The only product we found on the market that provided high-range capabilities and integration into our existing software was Highwall", said Scott Stone, Security Manager for Sarasota Memorial.
"We are excited to be working with a future-thinking health care provider like Sarasota Memorial. We believe Health Care faces a serious challenge in protecting their information and networks from unauthorized wireless devices, and we hope to replicate the success at SMH into other providers."...
Highwall Deploys Rogue Detection System for Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Health insurance > Highwall Deploys Rogue Detection System for Sarasota Memorial Hospital
Licenced Wellcoach?, Jonna Reynolds, Offers the Newest in Health and Fitness Services
SAN DIEGO (ContentDesk) August 2, 2005 -- Jonna Reynolds, a health and fitness expert, is among the graduates of the new Wellcoaches? Coach Training and Licensing Program, the first program of it's kind developed to train and license health and fitness professionals to become wellness coaches. The program is offered by Wellcoaches Corporation in partnership with the prestigious American College of Sports Medicine (www.acsm.org), the world authority in exercise science, sports nutrition, and the establishment of professional certification standards in fitness.
All licensees of the Wellcoaches? Coach Training Program are experienced professionals with degrees or certifications in exercise science, health education, nursing, physical therapy, and/or nutrition. They are uniquely qualified to provide wellness coaching services by telephone, using the state-of-the-art Wellcoaches? web-coaching platform which supports a comprehensive approach to wellness involving stress management,...
Health insurance > Licenced Wellcoach?, Jonna Reynolds, Offers the Newest in Health and Fitness Services
HealthMark Multimedia CD-ROM for Cancer Patients Exploring Complementary Therapies to be Featured at the UICC World Cancer Conference
Washington, DC (ContentDesk) August 5, 2006 -- Eighty-three percent of cancer patients use complementary therapies to manage symptoms of cancer and side effects of conventional treatment.
Ideal cancer care may integrate evidence-based complementary therapies with conventional care, but, for now, the burden of exploring options, weighing efficacy versus risks, and coordinating care between providers falls upon the patient. Dr. Brink was selected to present the formative evaluation results that led to the development of Complementary Cancer Care: Your Healing Plan".
The Complementary Cancer Care: Your Healing Plan" CD-ROM serves as an interactive tool for cancer patients to integrate complementary care with their conventional treatment through goal setting and development of a personalized healing plan.
Therapies were chosen based on the evidence for effectiveness in meeting goals that cancer patients have at various stages of their cancer journey (e.g., combat...
HealthMark Multimedia CD-ROM for Cancer Patients Exploring Complementary Therapies to be Featured at the UICC World Cancer Conference
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Americans Rush to Open HSAs
VALLEY FORGE, PA. (ContentDesk via ContentDesk Direct) January 19, 2006 - Consumers are scrambling to get their new Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) opened by 2006, according to PFPC, a leading provider of processing, technology and business solutions whose central processing and call center in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, recently saw the number of new health savings accounts (HSAs) being opened triple in just three days. Anticipating a flurry of calls and questions from new account holders, PFPCs call center staff levels are already ramped up and ready for the expected end-of-the-year rush.This rush reflects advice from many financial experts who say that some consumers may be able to save considerably in terms of taxes this year by having their HSA set up and initially funded by April 15, 2006. These new account holders are in the vanguard of consumer-directed healthcare, and like most first responders, they have questions as they set...
Americans Rush to Open HSAs
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DATA REVEALS THREAT OF SHINGLES EPIDEMIC FROM VACCINE USE Health Officials Threaten Legal Action Against Researcher
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Gary S. Goldman, Ph.D.Phone: 661-944-5661Fax: 661-944-4483Email: e-mail protected from spam botsFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (ContentDesk October 1, 2003DATA REVEALS THREAT OF SHINGLES EPIDEMIC FROM VACCINE USEHealth Officials Threaten Legal Action Against ResearcherPearblossom, California (ContentDesk) October 1 2003-- Three different analyses of reported cases of shingles and chickenpox were published today in the October 2003 issue of Vaccine and suggest the threat of a shingles epidemic in the US due to mass vaccination with varicella (chickenpox) vaccine. Data collected under the CDC-funded Varicella Active Surveillance Project (VASP) of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services Acute Communicable Disease Control Unit revealed that when chickenpox disease was significantly reduced in a population, there was an unexpectedly high number of shingles cases among unvaccinated children with a previous history of chickenpox. Shingles is usually mild in children and...
Health insurance > DATA REVEALS THREAT OF SHINGLES EPIDEMIC FROM VACCINE USE Health Officials Threaten Legal Action Against Researcher