Workers' Compensation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

While the Federal expanded benefits are ending for many workers on Labor Day, Workers’ Compensation Benefits are still available for those workers who have been exposed to COVID at work and contract disease and remain ill from Long COVID. Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Long COVID, Workers' Compensation Blog (Dec.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Workers who adapt and grow with the organization in a time of accelerated change will be able to launch products and services that meet market needs. For 2021, WE Forum lists the top 10 needed jobs: Data analysts and scientists. Quick Skilling Hits as You Plan for 2021 . AI and machine learning specialists. For Organizations.

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Best Money Moves

MARCH 3, 2021

The Top 5 HR Trends to Look For In 2021. Here are the top 5 HR trends to look for in 2021, after a year that transformed the way Americans work. . Look for more offices staying remote or vying for half-remote, half-in-office hybrid models in 2021. . It’s no secret that 2020 was a disruptive year.

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Best Money Moves

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

How to build a strong remote work culture in 2021. So, how can workforces maintain a strong remote work culture in 2021 if they feel a physical space is key to success? Try these three strategies to help develop your remote work culture in 2021, regardless of how long your team is stuck at home. .

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Employee Benefits

JANUARY 31, 2022

Soaring numbers of UK workers looked for support from an employee assistance programme (EAP) last year, research has revealed. The Employee Assistance Professionals Association (EAPA) found that 347,000 more employees used an EAP in October 2021 than they did a year earlier. With usage up from 10.4% in October 2020 to 11.4%

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InterWest Insurance Services

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Despite the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau recommending that benchmark rates in California be increased in the last two years, the rates that insurance companies are charging for coverage continue falling. As of June 30, 2022, the average charged rate for workers’ comp in California was $1.74

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Employee Benefits

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The amount of money paid to dependents of employees who died with Covid-19 (Coronavirus) soared in 2021, research has revealed. ” Group life assurance is one of the most popular benefits offered to employees, according to Grid, with nearly 10 million UK workers covered.

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Employee Benefits

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Almost six in 10 (59%) British workers feel unhappy, dissatisfied, highly dissatisfied or neutral with their benefits packages , according to new research. Many employers offered inflated salaries to secure talent throughout 2021 and 2022, so it’s unsurprising that salary offers have largely normalised, with fewer opportunities available. “No

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Insperity

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It’s a question with big ramifications that trips up many employers: Is my worker an employee or contractor ? If a worker meets the requirements for an employment relationship, they can’t be an independent contractor. How you decide to classify workers is of great interest to the Department of Labor (DOL) and the IRS.

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Money Talk

JANUARY 19, 2022

In this post, I continue my discussion of tips from webinars, podcasts, and virtual conferences that I heard during the last quarter of 2021. For example, workers with a guaranteed pension and/or a high investment risk tolerance might want to have more stock exposure in a TDF and would chose a target date farther off in the future.

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InterWest Insurance Services

MAY 16, 2024

After enrollment in high-deductible health plans soared during the last decade, 2022 marked the first year that enrollment in these plans fell among American workers since 2013, according to a new report by ValuePenguin. workers signed up for HDHPs in 2022, compared to 56% in 2021.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

In September 2021, more than 4.4 During Covid-19, the workers were faced with healthcare issues and social security issues. Many workers had to tap into their emergency funds when the pandemic started, and this situation is still current. On the other hand, we have students whose student loans are still unpaid.

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Business Management Daily

JANUARY 4, 2022

The summer of 2021 was our biggest year financially ever. The rafting industry had a shortage of guides in 2021, but all of our guides came back and worked extra hard. Abe Breuer, CEO and owner of VIP to Go and John to Go , recounts how his company took a similar action in the best interest of its workers.

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Money Talk

JUNE 8, 2022

Below are ten tax withholding tips for taxpayers with multiple streams of income: Inventory Your Total Income- Make a list of projected income sources for the current year, using previous income listed on your 2021 tax return as a guide. Adjust the previous income as life circumstances necessitate (e.g., In other instances (e.g.,

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Money Talk

JANUARY 13, 2022

In this post, I continue my discussion of tips from webinars, podcasts, and virtual conferences that I heard during the last quarter of 2021. Consider Your Computer- Windows 11 arrived during 2021 and Windows 10 support will end on October 14, 2025. A proactive plan (e.g., LTC insurance or self-insurance) can help alleviate this fear.

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Employee Benefits

JANUARY 18, 2023

This suggests that long-term thinking about their future is an important aspect of working life for employees, so employers should look to engage younger workers with pensions sooner rather than later to ensure they are building an adequate retirement income. Pension communications do not have to be, and indeed should not be, dull.

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Money Talk

AUGUST 10, 2022

The year 2021 was noteworthy for the “Great Resignation” as about 47 million people quit jobs last year. The year 2022 is equally noteworthy for a “Great Unretirement” as millions of older workers who left jobs during the pandemic decided to come back into the labor force. Factors contributing to this trend include: 1.

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Employee Benefits

MAY 24, 2023

An employment tribunal has ordered private hire cab and courier business Addison Lee to pay deposits of up to £125,000 to continue with its legal arguments in the workers’ rights case brought by hundreds of drivers. The post Addison Lee ordered to pay deposits to continue workers’ rights case appeared first on Employee Benefits.

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Ahmed's Universe

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

PARIS, February 12, 2021 Since 2013, when almost nobody in continental Europe could spell “Workday”, and I became the first person in France to be certified on the system and project methodology, I have worked on 9 Workday implementations. You go back to the Worker Profile and nothing had happened. My favorite? Confusing terminology.

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InterWest Insurance Services

JUNE 6, 2024

After enrollment in high-deductible health plans soared during the last decade, 2022 marked the first year that enrollment in these plans fell among American workers since 2013, according to a new report by ValuePenguin. workers signed up for HDHPs in 2022, compared to 56% in 2021.

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InterWest Insurance Services

AUGUST 10, 2022

Cal/OSHA has issued a reminder to employers that they are required to protect their outdoor workers from unhealthy air due to wildfire smoke. Cal/OSHA’s Protection from Wildfire Smoke emergency regulation put in place in August 2019 was made permanent in February 2021. Options for protecting workers ?

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Florida Workers' Comp

APRIL 14, 2024

Some believe that the distinction is somehow starker in the community of workers' compensation, but I am dubious. Some believe that part of our workers' compensation challenge is based upon a conscious decision to neither recruit nor train young professionals early in the 21st century. There will always be workers' compensation.

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InterWest Insurance Services

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

American employers are trying to meet their workers’ mental health needs as they struggle with burnout and stress from their jobs and finances, according to a new report. The annual “ Aflac WorkForces Report ” found that more than 50% of American workers experience burnout in their workplace.

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InterWest Insurance Services

AUGUST 1, 2023

California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has issued an order that cuts the average advisory workers’ compensation benchmark rate across all classes by 2.6%, starting Sept. The number of workers’ compensation claims hit a low of 13 per 1,000 workers last year. per $100 of payroll as of Jan. on average.

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InterWest Insurance Services

MAY 9, 2023

In a sign of the long-lasting effects of reforms enacted a decade ago, California’s workers’ compensation rate-making agency will recommend that average benchmark rates increase a mere 0.3%. The number of workers’ compensation claims hit a low of 13 per 1,000 workers in 2022, down from 49 in 1991.

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Money Talk

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Below are eight insights about savings that I gleaned from the America Saves program and government data sources: Savings Rates Dropped in 2021 - The U.S. By January 2021, as vaccines started to roll out, the savings rate was 19.9%. In April, July, and December 2021, savings rates were 12.6%, 10.6%, and 7.9%, respectively.

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Money Talk

MARCH 4, 2022

Catch-Up Savings Contributions - In 2022, workers age 50+ by year-end can contribute an additional $1,000 to a traditional or Roth IRA for a maximum contribution of $7,000. This same group of older workers can contribute an additional $6,500 to an employer savings plan (401(k), 403(b), 457, and TSP) for a maximum contribution of $27,000.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 2, 2024

CVS’ employee cuts are expected to target corporate roles primarily, so in-store workers who manage the day-to-day interactions with customers are unlikely to be affected by CVS’ layoffs. Besides the mention of corporate workers, CVS has not indicated whether it will target specific departments while making the cut.

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Money Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Using simple math, losing the income of someone earning the 2021 U.S. Some unvaccinated workers may lose their jobs as employers announce “zero-tolerance” mandatory vaccination policies in conjunction with a required return to workplaces. As noted above, unvaccinated workers may see their health insurance premiums increase.

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Employee Benefits

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Wellbeing and performance service GoodShape took data from its proprietary workplace absences database – which includes more than 750,000 employee records – and found that UK workers have taken more than 319 million days off work in 2021 for an illness or injury at an estimated cost to employers of £43 billion and counting.

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HR Bartender

APRIL 20, 2021

Bureau of Labor Statistics March 2021 jobs report said that employers added almost 1 million jobs and the unemployment rate is down to 6%. The situation changes when organizations have remote and hybrid workers. Enjoy the article!). I’ve seen a couple of interesting articles lately about recruiting. First, the U.S.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 13, 2022

This is usually held at the annual workers' compensation conference each August, but 2021 was delayed. In Perseverance and Poise (November 2021), I congratulated the organizers and participants for their successful pivot to a virtual preliminary round. The Zehmer contest emulates the reality of workers' compensation practice.

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Best Money Moves

MAY 18, 2021

According to the Pew Research Center , 71 percent of workers who can work from home are. What’s more, 54 percent of those workers have expressed a desire to continue to do so, even after the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic has passed. An increase in temporary workers and freelancers is likely.

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Hireology

JUNE 8, 2021

Our customers have seen an average of just over 8,000 hires per month in 2021, so this trend is encouraging. In fact, from February 2020 to February 2021 , 1.8 Economists predict a bumpy road through the summer, however businesses and workers will likely fare better following the downturn than after recent recessions. .

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Workplace Insight

JANUARY 10, 2024

A new poll from Scalable Software of 2,000 UK knowledge workers claims more than a third (35 percent) resent being told they have to go into the office for a set number of days. Knowledge workers are forced to work 3.1 Almost a fifth (18 percent) of workers rated the DEX provided by their employer as poor, up from 15 percent in 2021.

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Money Talk

JANUARY 26, 2022

Example : $500,000 account balance on December 31, 2021 and age 72 in 2022. Still Working Exception - The only exception to RMDs beginning age 72 is for workers who are still working for a company where they have a retirement savings plan. Take the RMD withdrawal by the end of the distribution year. The divisor is 27.4

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