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Workers’ Compensation: What’s payroll got to do with it?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

.); "total amount paid to employees over a period," hence, via records-keeping, "list of employees receiving pay." [ See [link] ] Today, the word “payroll” more often than not refers to the department or system that manage employer costs for a range of employee compensation components.

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Are wages or salary fully covered by workers’ compensation insurance?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The vast majority of workers in the US and Canada are employed in jobs “covered” by workerscompensation insurance. A December 2018 slip and fall in a wet stairwell of her employer’s office building resulted in a back injury and a cracked rib. Her workerscompensation claim was accepted. Burton, Jr.,

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Year-end checklist for HR

PeopleStrategy

Verify employee compensation. Verify compensation information for every employee in your organization. Ensure that your company will be in compliance with changes to labor laws, employee compensation requirements and any other relevant regulations in the new year. Determine the 2018 holiday schedule.

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Is workers’ compensation spending on healthcare significant? Would a "single-payer" system make a difference?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

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

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Workers’ Compensation Insurance Arrangements: Does the model make a difference? Part 1

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

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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What is pay equity? Defining the problem before it can be addressed

Business Management Daily

The wages, bonuses, and benefits a company provides to employees doing the same job should not vary by gender, sexual orientation, age, race, national origin, or possessing a disability. A variety of legitimate factors influence employee compensation. As important as what pay equity means is also what it does not entail.

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