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2025 Employer Compliance Issue

Ensuring employer compliance requires creativity and due diligence; a commitment to detail and a dedication to helping employees during vulnerable times. This issue showcases the variety and complexity of this work as well as competing demands on disability and absence managers. It also emphasizes the value of community and access to colleagues, who share challenges and successes and lean in to provide guidance. Read about lessons learned during the first year of implementing the Colorado Family and Medical Leave Insurance program, how assessing cognitive demands can help protect employees from reinjury when they return to work, tools to help teams take an unbiased approach to accommodations, and more.

2024 Technology and Innovation Issue

Leave management experts define innovation in myriad ways as illustrated in this issue of @Work magazine. Content spans the gamut from building the business case for paid leave to identifying the nuances of data automation and the value of selecting one-stop-shop software platforms. We feature the Emerging Leader and inaugural Kaleta-Carruthers Award winners and celebrate the passion that drives leave management experts to find innovative ways to support employees and ensure employer compliance!

2024 Americans with Disabilities Act and Return to Work Issue

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This issue of the magazine encourages employers to step outside the traditional confines and seek new ways to support diverse groups of employees. It champions the notion that returning to work can be part of the healing process when a leave is necessary and provides examples of how employers can encourage employees to return to work as soon as possible. Read about the bravery needed to test new approaches to accommodations and the willingness to expand the concept of disability and absence management to be more inclusive. The issue, focused on of compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Return to Work, includes articles about how employers can support employees diagnosed with cancer, benchmarking tips, how to avoid legal missteps after a leave of absence, ways to create accessible environments for employees with different types of disabilities, and more.

2024 Integrated Absence Management Issue

The process of integrating disability and absence management has been called a journey and, as authors note throughout this issue of @Work magazine, it is one well worth taking! This approach, a hallmark of the Disability Management Employer Coalition (DMEC) since its inception, helps employers comply with an increasing number of (and nuances to) laws across the U.S.

2024 Mental Health and Well-Being Issue

There is increasing pressure on employers to invest more strategically in the mental health and well-being of their employees, and this issue of DMEC’s @Work magazine includes guidance on high-level strategy as well as practical implementation.

2024 Employer Compliance Issue

This issue of @Work magazine illustrates the need for professionals to track leave laws (and their variations across the country) while taking a creative approach to accommodation requests to ensure compliance and help employees stay at work when possible and return to work when it is safe to do so.

2023 Healthcare and Wellness Issue

This issue of @Work magazine offers suggestions for how employers can encourage appropriate use of available leave to avoid and address burnout and ensure whole-person health, guidance for designing return-to-work pathways that minimize employee stress, practical approaches that help one employer support absence and disability managers, and more.

2023 Americans with Disabilities Issue

Ongoing challenges with Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance highlight the need for and value of education and training. And passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which mirrors some but not all of the ADA requirements, makes it even more important for employers to ensure compliance and support employees. This issue includes insights into the differences between the ADA and PWFA, ways employers can encourage stay-at-work options and faster return to work for employees, and guidance for getting to a “yes” with all types of accommodation requests.

2023 Integrated Absence Management Issue

It is becoming harder to decipher where absence management ends and disability management begins, which is one (of many) reasons employers should consider an integrated approach. This issue of @Work magazine showcases practical examples of how integrated absence management streamlines operations, saves employers money, enhances the employee experience, and helps support employees in their recovery and return to work.

2023 Workplace Mental Health Issue

The conversation about workplace mental health is expanding from a focus on treatment and support for mental illness to designing environments that protect and promote mental health and wellness. This issue of @Work magazine offers tips and tools to help employers reassess how they approach, invest in, and manage workplace mental health. With examples of successful employer approaches, suggestions for expediting safe return-to-work timelines, and more, there is abundant guidance on an age-old issue that threatens employee productivity, morale, and livelihood.

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