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Common Sense Compliance: Supporting Employee Health and Wellness

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Reviewing efforts to support health and wellness should be part of an employer’s leave management process. Promoting services; leveraging benefits; and refreshing education, training, and absence management policies help support employee needs and encourage them to stay healthy and well. It can also help employers avoid issues with compliance.

Employer Solutions: Preventable Absences

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Being proactive with your employees’ health and safety is essential to keep your workforce productive. Conditioning programs, ergonomics training, lessons in lifting, physical ability tests, and employee assistance programs can be effective prevention strategies to consider.

Engaging Today’s Workforce: Supporting Caregiving Employees

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Employers should consider customizing benefits and other resources that meet the evolving needs of caregiving employees. As more employees expect their employers to provide resources to balance their personal and professional lives, it will be increasingly important to offer generous packages that promote holistic health and financial wellness.

Integrated Absence Management: Benefits to Retain Employees

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American employees have different priorities and expectations following the COVID-19 pandemic, which radically changed what they want and expect from workplaces. Understanding the new realities — especially when it comes to younger, more mobile generations — is key to successful recruitment and retention.

Absence Matters: Win the Wellness Game

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In the quest for employee wellness, prevention has become critical. Proactive and preventive healthcare can reduce illness and claims, as well as help employees stay at work, which is a win for everybody.

Industry Q&A: A Different Mindset to Ensure Inclusive Environments

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As employers redefine acceptable approaches to work, they can differentiate themselves in a competitive hiring market and ensure policies and practices align with mission, vision, and value statements. Debra Dupree, an absence management consultant and mediation specialist, offers guidance for employers grappling with unprecedented operational and human resource-related changes.

Employer Perspective: Supporting Employee Mental and Emotional Well-being

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Creating a culture of well-being starts with establishing employee health as an organizational priority. Temple University Health System, Inc. has a commitment to meeting employees where they are with their well-being journeys (from mental to physical and financial health) and includes them in efforts to create effective well-being programs.

Program Showcase: Well-Being Strategy

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There has been unprecedented demand for mental health support during the last several years, especially for healthcare employers with clinicians working long hours on the front lines. It is not enough for organizations to amass well-being benefits, such as employee assistance programs, telehealth, virtual behavioral health, and text coaching. They must also communicate intentionally with employees.

Navigating the Complex Web of Pregnancy and Parental Leave Laws and Programs

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Employers and employees face a daunting task when it comes to planning for leave related to pregnancy, childbirth, and bonding with a new child. Many disability laws and policies may apply that provide paid leave, unpaid leave, and/or paid benefits for disability during pregnancy, disability to recover from childbirth, and/or bonding that vary by state and, in some cases, by city and county.

Powerful Returns Prompt Employers to Rethink Benefit Offerings

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Before the pandemic, many Americans were ill-prepared for unexpected emergencies, which has been exacerbated by the recent rise in inflation. As a result, more employees are forced to tap into their savings and 401(k) plans to make ends meet. A few ways that employers can help employees get back on track financially is by offering payroll-deducted savings programs, developing emergency funds with an employer match, and offering emergency savings options.

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