HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close and companies begin to settle on the wages and hikes for the next year, the question of how to create an equitable compensation system might flash in everyone’s mind—if briefly. Building a conscious pay system requires conscious policies and practices that support such an initiative.

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Workers' Compensation

JULY 14, 2023

2023 REVIEW OSC’s 2023 review found that while the Division made some changes, including modifying its claims management software and adopting performance metrics for its vendor, the Division implemented them ineffectively and therefore did not fix the systemic problems uncovered in 2020. The risk of incorrect payments to workers remains.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 4, 2024

The apparent rise in mental disability claims is a significant issue for disability insurers and workers’ compensation systems. The observed rise in workers’ compensation claims for mental injury must be interpreted in context. In workers’ compensation articles, claims are often described as either “accepted” or “denied”.

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Workers' Compensation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Stakeholders Face Challenges The numerous stakeholders of the workers’ compensation system have been repeatedly faced with episodes of increased infectious disease, and little has been done to take the necessary precautions against the hazardous consequences. Work has changed dramatically to remote and non-industrial in many instances.

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

MARCH 23, 2020

Corporate planning exercises are internal to the organization and not necessarily subject to public scrutiny making it hard to know how many workers’ compensation insurers saw COVID-19 coming and what, if anything, they did to prepare. This limitation was noted at the time. Source: 1918 Annual report ibid.,

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Workers' Compensation Perspectives

JULY 11, 2019

Requiring employers provide financial compensation to workers or their families for work-related injury, illness and death is central to achieving this objective. The market for workers’ compensation insurance is far from a free market place. There is no one “right way” or “best” insurance arrangement.

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Florida Workers' Comp

MARCH 15, 2022

This week, the Workers' Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) hosts its 38th Annual Issues and Research Conference in Boston. There was no Americans with Disabilities Act, no Family Medical Leave Act, and even the ground-breaking Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was not even a decade old.

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