Employee
Assessing Worker Health in the Pork Industry
Publish Date: April 30, 2012
Worker health is an important concept for the pork industry. Not only should worker health be assessed during employment, but before employment as well. Pre-employment physicals can help pork producers match a potential employee with a specific job in the operation. In addition, pre-employment physicals should be part of an overall occupational medicine and health promotion program. Worker health should also be assessed periodically for active employees. This may include hearing tests and measurement of respiratory function.
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Absent and Tardy Employees
Publish Date: November 8, 2010
Employees that are absent and tardy to work are major concerns for farm owners, supervisors and managers. Too much management time is spent on problems related to attendance and too many farm supervisors and managers tend to be casual about it. That will not work. You need a plan. Here are things that actually encourage poor attendance: • Out of date leave policies under which employees lose unused leave. Scrap the old“use it-or-lose it”policy. • Employee awareness of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) • “Flexible scheduling”that makes it hard to see who is tardy and who is absent
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