Category: @Work Magazine

Absence Matters: Reconsider Your Leave and Disability Policies

The leave and disability environment continues to change. The number of state statutes, new state disability programs, and accommodation changes should prompt employers to reorganize their company guidelines. To stay current, you must establish order, maintain organization, and update and replace outdated or “spoiled” policies.
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Using a DEIBA Lens to Assess Policies and See How Efforts Measure Up

Assembling a workforce that reflects different ages, ethnicities, abilities, genders, and cultural backgrounds adds value to conversations; challenges the way people think; and enhances employee morale, recruitment, and retention. It also increases profitability. Yet doing this is not easy.

Supporting Employees’ Return to Work

Building comprehensive RTW programs that ensure a coordinated, collaborative approach that integrates mental and physical elements of recovery helps employees return to work after a leave of absence for any reason and especially in catastrophic cases. The team at North Memorial Health has a keen appreciation this type of

DMEC News: July 2023

Check out the latest DMEC resources including the DMEC AbsenceExemplar™ Benchmarking Dashboard, Building a Return-to-Work Program Microcredential Course, and our manager’s conversation guide for presenteeism.

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The Disabled Workforce: Evaluating “Reasonable” Accommodations

Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to engage in a timely, good faith interactive process and provide reasonable accommodation. What, then, makes an accommodation objectively reasonable?

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Leave Technology: One Source of Truth

If companies use outbound feeds and allow data to flow into leave management technology, employers can simplify the leave process, improve compliance, and enhance the employee experience by creating one source of truth.

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Featured Case: “100% Healed” and Maximum Leave Policies

Most courts agree that inflexible policies discriminate against people with disabilities, yet employers still have and enforce them. And some employers are not aware that these policies may violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.

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Common Sense Compliance: A Comprehensive Approach

It is difficult to navigate the patchwork of federal, state, and local leave and accommodation laws in addition to employer-sponsored leaves, and it is in the best interests of all parties to simplify the ability to identify and use entitlements and benefits. Taking an integrated approach helps accomplish this.

The CEO’s Desk: RTW Programs

Return-to-work programs benefit organizations in myriad ways including enhanced employee experience that extends beyond those who need accommodations or request leaves of absence. They enable you to take a holistic approach to a foundational aspect of what we do — keeping employees at work or returning employees to productive and

Employer Solutions: Risk Management and Employee Benefits

While risk managers are keenly focused on workplace safety and workers’ compensation, it’s important for them to have a working knowledge of all benefits to ensure employees can access available benefits. Human resources professionals and risk managers should work together to support employees with job-related injuries and nonwork-related conditions.