Posts tagged Workers Comp
How to Navigate an Injury at Work

No matter how vigilant you are about maintaining safety in the workplace, you can’t always avoid accidents. It’s important to know how to respond when one of your employees suffers an injury on the job.

Properly training staff on workplace safety is important. As one Philadelphia workers compensation lawyer points out, these injuries can be costly, “as most injuries or illnesses that…have been caused by an accident or condition at the workplace” will be covered by your worker's compensation plan.

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How to Establish a "Perfect" Time and Attendance Policy

Absenteeism in the workplace is a real issue and it has become a major problem over the past few years. There are three different types of absences that can potentially impact your business: scheduled, unscheduled, and partial shift absences. Scheduled absences consist of vacation or personal time, such as PTO. Unscheduled absences include sick days, disability, and Worker’s Compensation leave. Lastly, partial shift absences are when a worker arrives late at work, takes longer breaks than allowed, or leaves early. There are different causes for absenteeism, some an employer can control such as bullying and/or harassment in the workplace or employee burnout and there are others that cannot be controlled by an employer such as bad weather, childcare, or even job hunting. Whatever the case may be, employers should be aware of how often their employees are absent from work without a valid reason. Being proactive about managing attendance and talking to those employees that miss work often is a good start, but having a perfect (or almost perfect) time and attendance policy is imperative. If you don’t already have one in place or are thinking about making your current time and attendance policy better, consider the following.

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An Overview of Workers' Compensation in Michigan

Workers’ compensation is a unique area of the law. It’s all governed by the Michigan Workers’ Disability Compensation Act. Prior to 1912, all injuries that occurred on the job were to be treated as a personal injury matter. If you were to get in a car accident, or you were to slip and fall while you’re visiting a store, it was all the same. Back in 1912, everyone had adopted a statute that made it almost automatically a liability on the employer’s perspective, but it really limited the amount in damages that an individual could recover if an injury were to happen on the job. 

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