Nurses care. It’s who they are, what they do—and unfortunately, it can hurt them. RNs experience some of the highest injury and illness rates in health care/social services, a field where such incidents are already higher than average. The most frequent source of employee absence in any field, back injury, affects nurses acutely because they … Continued
MDGuidelines®, the leading evidence-based guidelines for disability and workers’ compensation, today released the MDGuidelines Duration Analyzer™, a new tool for benchmarking claims performance. View the press release here.
2020 was the year that employers finally told their people, some for the first time: yes, you can work from home today. Some had no choice, due to executive orders closing non-essential businesses; others opted to make the move to virtual of their own volition, spurred by fears that their employees would contract COVID-19 at … Continued
On June 11th, the EEOC issued some additional guidance related to COVID-19 on its Q&A website. The guidance is very timely, as it provides clarity to many questions employers have as their employees return to the workplace. For Part 3 of our series about returning to the office, we’ve listed the questions and answers below … Continued
On this week’s episode, Sue and James discuss what leave benefits your employees who were previously furloughed are entitled to when they come back to work after coronavirus closures are lifted. Transcript: James: Welcome to our Podcast. I’m your host, James Venable, and I’m the Vice President of Compliance and Employment Law for Reed Group, … Continued
Is your Organization’s Culture and Behavior Inadvertently Causing Absenteeism? ReedGroup has identified seven of the most potent drivers of absenteeism within an organization. The first of this two-part series explored four of the seven pitfalls we’ve seen in some employer’s plan and policy designs that encourage employee absenteeism. This next part of the series … Continued
Are your policies inadvertently causing absenteeism? ReedGroup has identified seven of the most potent drivers of absenteeism within an organization. The first of this two-part series will explore four of the seven pitfalls we see in some employer’s plan and policy designs that encourage employee absenteeism. Here are some tips and tactics that will counterbalance … Continued
Sitting in a crowded legislative committee and listening to parties debate a bill inspired me to ask myself a very important question: When all is said and done and my actions are measured, am I truly a worker advocate? The debate referenced above between bill proponents and a hesitant House Labor Committee was long and … Continued
The MDGuidelines Population Database now includes more than 15 million real-world illness and injury case claims, allowing clinical and business leaders to measure how their patient populations compare against broader population benchmarks. View the press release here. Leading health and productivity company ReedGroup® today is announcing that its industry leading MDGuidelines® Population Database recently tripled … Continued
ReedGroup is today announcing the National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC)—a program of the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)—has accepted ReedGroup’s MDGuidelines® for Low Back Disorders and Cervical and Thoracic Spine Disorders. View the press release here.
ReedGroup, a leading provider of health and productivity solutions, announced today that Josh Protass has joined as the company’s General Counsel. View the press release here.
Despite the fact that the Family and Medical Leave Act has been a part of the American employment landscape for 17 years, there are still many pitfalls for employers in administering FMLA. Two recent federal court cases bring home the lesson that even if an employee’s leave request is handled properly and all requested FMLA … Continued
