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8 Tips To Ensure The Easy Transition From Office Employee To A Work From Home Employee Is Painless

Your organization does not need to shut its doors with the panic of a statewide/countrywide quarantine, you can offer a work from home option. With technology today, there is the potential to move non-customer facing operations to remote locations…

Our SIM-Hacking Prevention Guide

Cyber Liability Insurance, General Liability Insurance, HR Challenges, Risk Management, Vlogs

We recently wrote a piece about what SIM-Hacking or SIM-Swapping is. Click this link here to read it. We’re following up on that article with a quick guide to preventing SIM-hacking. We’re not here to re-explain what SIM-hacking is, we’re…

Changes To Employment Practice Liability Laws Could Affect Your Business If You Are Not Careful

Is Your Organization Prepared For The Coming Changes That Could Increase Your EPL Risk?

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Rapidly changing times bring rapidly changing standards when it comes to things like diversity, harassment, and discrimination. Employment practices liability has always had significant exposure but the current social climate adds a hypersensitivity…

Signs Of Worker Burnout In Home Healthcare

HR Challenges, Human Services Practice Group Content, Workers Compensation Insurance

Signs Of Worker Burnout Worker burnout in the Home Healthcare Sector is a major problem. On top of burn out, home healthcare agencies face a growing problem of worker shortages. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects 7.8 million job openings…

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New York State Expands Anti-Discrimination Laws

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New York State (NYS) has once again increased its protections against workplace discrimination and harassment by updating and expanding its Anti-discrimination laws. Under a new law enacted on Aug. 12, 2019, certain provisions that were added…

When An Employee Refuses Medical Injury Treatment For Potential Workers Compensation Claim

Claims Management, Construction Practice Group Content, Food & Beverage Practice Group Content, HR Challenges, Human Services Practice Group Content, Transportation Practice Group Content, Workers Compensation Insurance

Is your employee refusing medical injury treatment for a potential worker compensation claim? Based on the geographic location of your business, many state workers’ compensation statutes limit and mandate certain employer actions when a worker…

Discover Return To Work Program Benefits That Are Easy To Implement Within Your Organization

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A return to work (RTW) program allows employees to come back to a job while they are still injured. These employees aregiven a light or modified work instead of not working while they are injured. This workers' comp cost control tactic has…

New Bill To Broaden Workplace Harassment Puts Business At Greater Risk

Construction Practice Group Content, Food & Beverage Practice Group Content, HR Challenges, Human Services Practice Group Content, Other, Risk Transfer, Transportation Practice Group Content

N.Y. State lawmakers are working towards stricter standards on workplace harassment. Under today’s guidelines, judges have determined “pulling a bra strap” or “suggesting a woman gets breast implants” doesn’t qualify as workplace…

Workers Comp Questions and Advice

Claims Management, HR Challenges, Other, Risk Management, Vlogs

There are 3 questions every organization should put to each level within their organization to get a sense for how aligned they are as it relates to managing employee injuries, near misses and workers comp claims in general. Doing so will open…