Return to Work: Dear Injured Employee
Return to Work Interactive Workshop - Get Your Injured Employees Back to Work Now - Part 4 May 28, 2008 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. (Eastern-time) We all know getting injured employees back to work is not easy – this workshop will evaluate how and when to bring injured employees back to work and what you should do if they refuse to accept light duty job offers. We will review best practices, legal pitfalls and critical strategies to insure that injured employees return to work successfully.We will answer the following questions:
- How do we get the employee back to work?
- How do I use the light duty restrictions to identify tasks that can be assigned to the injured worker?
- When the employee comes back to work how do I make sure he or she stays there?
AGENDA
We will discuss best practices including:
- Part 1: How to avoid the “I’m in too much pain to work” syndrome.
- Part 2: How to keep the treating doctor from rescinding the return to work status?
- Part 3: The pitfalls that can occur when injured employees do not want to be at work.
- Part 4: The supervisors headaches that can occur because your managers do not want the injured employee in their work area.
- Part 5: The documentation that you should maintain to prove that you made an appropriate job offer.
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