The Workcomp Writer

MAY 23, 2022

The Court also found the Commission had utilized an incorrect standard when it held the claimant's post-accident weight gain—he weighed 250 pounds at the time of injury, but after surgery gained an additional 120 pounds—was a subsequent superseding event that relieved the employers of liability for the full extent of his disability.

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Insperity

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The Department of Labor (DOL) is cracking down on businesses that either purposely or unintentionally misclassify their workers. Misclassification can also result in liability for unemployment taxes, violation of workers’ compensation laws and a host of other issues. Common mistakes when classifying. Simple enough, right?

Taxes 58

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The Workcomp Writer

AUGUST 15, 2024

The appellate court stressed that the plaintiff’s allegations could never have been fully addressed at the Commission or Board level because the commissioner enjoyed only limited jurisdiction. and Liberty Mutual entered into a workers’ compensation insurance contract in September 2015. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company , 2024 Conn.

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Florida Workers' Comp

MAY 5, 2022

Despite being very comprehensive, it does not include the Commission's final decision of April 22, 2022. The Kentucky Judicial Commission unanimously "order(ed). The Commission lamented that "many of the children are too young to understand what is going on in the courtroom and too young to participate in any proceedings."

Family and Medical Leave Act 80

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 12, 2019

I’ve received a lot of questions recently on workers’ compensation healthcare spending in Canada, the US and other countries. Is the workers’ compensation part of that spending similar across nations? Is the workers’ compensation part of that spending similar across nations? See figure at top of this post.]

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Florida Workers' Comp

APRIL 28, 2024

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission issued a rule. The announcement boldly asserts that this is intended for "protecting the fundamental freedom of workers to change jobs, increasing innovation, and fostering new business formation." One instance noted in 2016 involved hourly employees of a sandwich restaurant.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 4, 2022

Notably, in the workers' compensation practice, communication among judges regarding such calendar conflicts is commonplace, but less so when the conflict is court-related. In a word, mandatory mediation has been famously beneficial to Florida workers' compensation. The early 1990s were tough in Florida workers' compensation.

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Insperity

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The Department of Labor (DOL) is cracking down on businesses that either purposely or unintentionally misclassify their workers. Misclassification can also result in liability for unemployment taxes, violation of workers’ compensation laws and a host of other issues. Common mistakes when classifying. Simple enough, right?

Taxes 51

Taxes Pension Commissions Workers’ Compensation 51

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JANUARY 1, 2019

Workers with permanent disabilities often don’t have those options. The monthly workers’ compensation amount they receive may have sustained them initially but unless it is adjusted for the cost of living, permanently disabled workers will see the buying power of their workers’ compensation income decline with each passing year.

Workers’ Compensation 52

Workers’ Compensation Pension Health and Welfare Insurance 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

These are tough times for workers over a certain age. Hence, there are many mid-level and senior workers who are feeling left out or overlooked. The average age of an American worker is 42 years. Learn how to combat ageism in the workplace.

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Florida Workers' Comp

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Of note, the Arizona Commission in this instance did not conclude there was sufficient proof of ex parte communication, but it was merely alleged. The judge was a prosecutor before appointment as a Court Commissioner in 2012, and was appointed judge in 2016. Some of the derogations were allegedly "printed. on the wall in the division."

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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 11, 2024

In 2018 Forum Recap and Professionalism (April 2018) ; 2015 Frierson-Colling Professionalism Award (2015), I had the chance to discuss professionalism and The Florida Bar Workers' Compensation Section's efforts to recognize it in their members. Myers who was a legend in Florida workers' compensation before my time. Not so much.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 11, 2019

For more than a century, governments have pursued a social policy objective: to protect workers from work-related injury, disability, illness and death in a compassionate and sustainable way that still allows the economic activity and innovation necessary for societies to operate and thrive. Government interventions alter the market.

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Workers' Compensation

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited a New Jersey contractor for again exposing workers to fall hazards, this time while working at a construction site in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey. The company faces a proposed penalty of $1,017,248 for these violations. Recommended Citation: Gelman, Jon L.,

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Florida Workers' Comp

DECEMBER 7, 2023

See Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet (July 2013); What is Right with Comp (June 2016); What is Different (December 2021); Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (October 2022). Workers' compensation as a community is ever-changing. There is a tendency for workers' compensation agencies to see leadership turnover.

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HR Digest

MARCH 8, 2023

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has seen a significant increase in sexual harassment claims, leading to calls for updated guidance on the issue. The Need for Updated Guidance Despite these efforts, the EEOC has not updated its guidance on harassment since 1990, despite convening a task force to study the issue in 2016.

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The Workcomp Writer

AUGUST 10, 2022

With its decision, the appellate court reversed a determination by the state’s Industrial Commission that had ruled the deceased worker’s claim abated with his death because it had not been approved by the Commission. On June 2, 2016, the employer, its carrier, and King attended mediation. LEXIS 82 (Aug. Background.

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 12, 2023

There was a curious addition to a 2016 report on the Top 10 Technologies Driving the Digital Workplace from tech researchers Gartner. By the 1960s questions were already being raised about the wisdom of these sorts of layouts, especially in Europe. It should be a place where 1,000 people can feel at home.

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Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The report – Working for the Future – is published alongside the launch of a new Commission on the Future of Employment Support that aims to work over the next eighteen months to gather evidence and develop proposals for far-reaching reform.

Employment 52

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Florida Workers' Comp

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

That company commissioned the construction of "Mindy," a representation of changes that might occur in humans as a reaction to the impacts of technology. This article is a somewhat scary exposition that leads with technology creating negative impacts "on our bodies." Might the new tools simply suggest different challenges to our DNA?

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The retirement policy went into effect in 2016 and the group believed that this guaranteed patient safety and ensured they received the best care from their physicians. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has been dialing up its efforts to protect the U.S.

Medical 52

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Business Management Daily

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In addition to raising the overtime salary threshold, the final rule: Allows employers to use nondiscretionary bonuses and incentive payments (including commissions) paid at least annually to satisfy up to 10% of the standard salary threshold.

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The Workcomp Writer

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Where a Missouri employee was able to work on a full-time, seasonable basis following a second work-related injury, the Missouri Commission did not err in finding that the employee had failed to show that he was permanently and totally disabled [Chambers v. A majority of the Commission affirmed and adopted the ALJ’s award of no compensation.

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Achievers

OCTOBER 18, 2018

But, also as important is making sure that when you do bring in these new workers, they are a good fit to the true culture of your workplace. He has directed two feature films and is an illustrator and commissioned painter. As HR professionals you understand your organization.

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In a carefully reasoned opinion, the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has affirmed a decision by the state’s Workers’ Compensation Board that denied benefits to a worker who sustained a torn Achilles tendon when he stepped from the employer’s parking lot into a vehicle to go home just following the ending of his shift [ Lewis v.

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The Workcomp Writer

JULY 30, 2023

That got me thinking about workers’ compensation claimants. Direct and Natural Consequence Rule Like a number of other axiomatic doctrines within the field of workers’ compensation law, the so-called “direct and natural consequence” rule is easily articulated. The appellate court agreed with the commission, finding that Va.

Medical 52

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Business Management Daily

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

If co-workers, for example, find out that a worker or his family member’s genetic disorder, any harassment violates GINA. For example, employers can’t force DNA testing on workers even if the results don’t show a genetic disorder. Or an employee or co-worker may pass on information about an inherited condition.

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Bayzat

JUNE 2, 2024

The first was in 2016, according to Ministerial Decree 739, and the second was in 2019. Also, SIF is a compulsory tag-along document for salaries, so you don’t need to fill one out for commissions, gratuities, and bonuses. The company is reduced to the third category Workers will be allowed to live.

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The Workcomp Writer

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Heartiest congratulations to the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) as it celebrates 100 years of service to the workers’ compensation system. By way of context, in my 37 years of working on “the Treatise” [ Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , 17 vols., The winnowing was not easy. Minneapolis St. 315, 41 N.W.2d

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The Workcomp Writer

MARCH 28, 2024

2016-Ohio-8304, 2016 Ohio App. Background Rolsen sought workers’ compensation benefits after he suffered an adverse reaction to a pneumonia vaccination that he received while he was on duty as a manager at his employer’s Walgreens retail store. Walgreen Co. LEXIS 5147].

Workers’ Compensation 52

Workers’ Compensation Hospitality Employment Medical 52

HR Digest

JANUARY 21, 2019

Paid parental leave offering companies have increased from 21 % to 29 % between 2016 and 2018. The society is increasingly acknowledging that fathers struggle with the conflicts of work and family far more than their co-workers who are moms. HOW EMPLOYERS CAN SUPPORT WORKING DADS.

Parental Leave 53

Parental Leave Paid Leave PTO Commissions 53

Achievers

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Starting in 2016, organizations began asking me not just about the future of work but more specifically about the future workforce. Let’s start with the math: More than a third of the current workforce are millennials and in 2016 they became the largest generation in the workforce. Who are the employees of the future?

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2020

Ageism or age discrimination is an unfavourable treatment at work of an employee or worker based on the class or category of the person, like employees over age 40. The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (POWADA) was earlier introduced by legislators in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Commissions 119

Commissions Education Salary Technology 119

HR Digest

JANUARY 7, 2020

A 2016 report from the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity estimates that 30 percent of young adults will not graduate from secondary school with the skills they need to hold most jobs in the digital world. A growing number of business leaders see the value of upskilling, but there’s much to be done.

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 16, 2023

It is, of course, one thing for a state to allow the use of marijuana in the treatment of injuries and diseases, but quite another to require employers and/or insurers to reimburse injured workers in connection with a workers’ compensation claim. Stat. . §§ 26-2B-1 to 26-2B-7, et seq.), Four have ruled that it cannot.

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Insperity

AUGUST 24, 2015

The best way to avoid charges of discrimination from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) or other fair employment practices agencies is to proactively establish consistent employment practices and policies that spell out the expectations for workplace interactions and communications. EEOC enforcement priorities through 2016.

Pension 82

Pension Commissions Medical Payroll 82

HR Digest

MARCH 11, 2020

Co-workers who have hit the mid 40s have had their career stalled. The reason--people at the helm lack experience or are still finding their feet as workers, let alone leaders, as simple as that. The average age of an American worker is 42 years. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission enforces the ADEA.

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