Get Your Employees Back to Work Now! - Tele-Seminar

Return to Work Interactive Workshop

This 4 Part Tele-Seminar Series is the complete guide to implementing a proactive Return to Work Program.

This is an interactive workshop that will allow you to exchange ideas with other participants, receive best practices coaching, design and develop your program, receive templates and sample policies.

By the end of the workshop you will be able to implement a comprehensive Workers Compensation Return to Work Program.

All participants will receive expert coaching from Margaret Spence – author of From Workers’ Comp Claimant to Valued Employee – Employer’s Guide to Implementing a Proactive Return to Work Program and you will have access to our Return to Work Resource website and Forum.

Posted by Margaret Spence on Apr 15, 2008

HR Manager - Did You Just Hire Your Next Workers’ Comp Claimant?

Let’s evaluate a typical hire for most companies:

There is an open position so you place an advertisement in the newspaper or online. Multiple resumes come in, you narrow your search to ten people, however only three people show up for the actual job interview. Of the three, you decide to hire Jack. After completing the background and reference checks, Jack is told to show up at 8:00 A.M. Monday morning and report to the HR Department to complete his paperwork.

Monday morning, here is the exchange that takes place:

“Hi, Jack. Welcome to the company. Fill out your paperwork, sit in the break room and watch the safety video and I will take you to work with Charlie, our senior employee. You will watch how Charlie does the job for two or three days, then you’re on your own. We are here if you have any questions. At XYZ Company, we have an open door policy.”

Posted by Margaret Spence on Apr 15, 2008

Every Workers' Comp Claim Start with an HR Decision

When I worked as an adjuster, I received countless phone calls from employers saying, “I should have fired him or her,” or, “He or she was a lousy employee,” or, “I’m not sure why I let him or her get away with that,” or, “If I had only let him or her go yesterday, I wouldn’t have this claim on my hands today.” This brings me full circle to why I feel, every workers’ compensation claim starts with an employment decision. As the employer, either you did not provide enough training and oversight to the employee or you hired the wrong employee to do the job or you kept the wrong employee too long. Most workers’ compensation claims can be traced to one of these bad HR decisions.

Posted by Margaret Spence on Apr 08, 2008