BJ to limit sick days

Beginning Jan. 1, 2006, Knight Ridder will be implementing a new policy stating that staff members may use only the vacation and sick days they have accrued. The current policy at the Akron Beacon Journal allows staff members to ôborrow ô up to two weeks of vacation with the approval of management. KR is making the change to accommodate a new payroll time-keeping process that will be administered by Fidelity, KRAs payroll vendor, at all Knight Ridder newspapers. To the extent a collective bargaining agreement is contrary to the new practice, the policy will have no
application to the employees covered by that contract. To prepare for the conversion, Beacon Journal staff members must show positive balances in their vacation and sick-time ôbankö by Dec. 31, 2005. Employees who need assistance calculating their vacation and sicktime balances should contact Aaron Burr, human resources.
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