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- Business Finance: Back-to-Work Breakthrough
- Integrated disability management helps companies reduce overall disability costs and return employees to the workplace quickly. To handle disability costs and injured employees back to work faster, a growing number of companies have embraced integrated disability management. This benefits-management strategy coordinates the administration of workers' compensation, long-term disability, short-term disability,...
- White papers 2000-04-01
- Promoting the Hiring of Workers with Disabilities
- The widespread availability of computers, a shrinking pool of available workers and a drive towatd diversity have combined to make it easier for persons with disabilities to become productive members of the nation's workforce.
- White papers 2003-06-03
- Tapping the Talents of People With Disabilities
- People with disabilities have the skills, abilities and experience to add value in a competitive workplace setting. In fact, the tangible returns to organizations that have broadly inclusive workplace cultures range from improved productivity, quality and morale to lower turnover and enhanced reputation as an employer of choice. A second...
- White papers 2005-07-13
- The Americans With Disabilities Act: Employing People with Capabilities
- In an organization, employers must hire and/or retain those individuals who can perform the major functions of the job, unless it can be demonstrated that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the organization. To follow the spirit of the law, organizations will need to adhere to various guidelines,...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Changes in Workers Compensation Laws, 2002
- Changes in State compensation laws ranged from increasing death benefit and burial expense amounts, to revising the criteria for eligibility for disability benefits, to expanding coverage for rescue workers whose health was affected or whose life was terminated by the events. One of the more significant provisions included increasing the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Can HR Legally Ask the Questions That Applicants with Disabilities Want to Be Asked?
- The article starts with the fact that under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the general rule, familiar to human resources professionals, is that an employer may not ask "disability-related" questions until after it makes a conditional job offer to an applicant. But there are exceptions to the general rule, some...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- Mental Disabilities In The Workplace
- Employers face a host of thorny problems ranging from limits on independent psychiatric evaluations to requests for accommodations of "stress." Article points out that there is no definitive list of covered mental impairments; employers must analyze disability claims and accommodation requests on a case-by-case basis. The statutory criteria for all...
- White papers 2000-06-01
- Is One Attempt to Accommodate an Employee's Disability Enough?II
- The case study discusses, If an employer makes an attempt to accommodate an employee with a disability and the arrangement fails, has the employer then met its responsibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act? That was the question recently posed before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Read the...
- White papers 2001-08-07
- Preventative Measures and Reasonable Accommodations II
- Making physical modifications within the existing work environment is a healthy start on making the workplace more accommodating for future employees who may have disabilities. Even though employers are not required to make workplace changes until an accommodation is actually necessary, they do have an obligation under Title I of...
- White papers 2003-03-04
- Disability Code of Good Practice
- The article focuses on the code that was issued in terms of the Employment Equity Act of 1998 and although not legally binding, it is intended to be used as a guide to assist employers and employees in understanding their rights and obligations when dealing with disability in the workplace....
- White papers 2001-01-09
- Several States Bar Consideration of Mitigating Measures
- The article explains that even if someone using mitigating measures is not substantially limited in a major life activity, the person might have a disability. In assessing whether persons requesting accommodations currently have disabilities, employers should not speculate about whether workers' conditions would improve if they took medications. Requests for...
- White papers 2002-05-03
- Integrate Benefits for Workers' Well-Being
- Improving and maintaining employees' health should be the key issue for employers that want to combine short- and long-term disability, occupational and non-occupational insurance providers. An added advantage to integrating providers is that all disability and leave cases are handled similarly. This creates an atmosphere of equality. Initially, supervisors who...
- White papers 2003-01-17
- Enabling Safe Evacuations
- The article says that The Americans with Disabilities Act ADA requires employers to modify their policies and procedures to include people with disabilities. These requirements apply also to evacuation plans. Employers may be required to provide reasonable accommodations to employees so they can evacuate during emergencies.Some employers may be leery...
- Case studies 2002-01-01
- Preventative Measures and Reasonable Accommodations
- Making physical modifications within the existing work environment is a healthy start on making the workplace more accommodating for future employees who may have disabilities. Even though employers are not required to make workplace changes until an accommodation is actually necessary, they do have an obligation under Title I of...
- White papers 2003-03-04
- Is One Attempt to Accommodate an Employee's Disability Enough?
- If an employer makes an attempt to accommodate an employee with a disability and the arrangement fails, has the employer then met its responsibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act? That was the question recently posed before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Read the article to know the...
- White papers 2001-08-07
- Employers May Be Liable for a Hostile Work Environment Under the ADA
- The ADA protects disabled people from discrimination in employment practices. Specifically, it states that covered employers shall not "discriminate against a qualified individual with a disability because of the disability of such individual in regard to job application procedures, the hiring, advancement, or discharge of employees, employee compensation, job training,...
- White papers 2001-06-05
- Disability - The Problem
- The odds of being disabled for an extended period of time before age sixty-five are greater than the odds that you will die before age sixty-five. The younger you are, the greater the odds. Generally it is seen that a person 25 years of age has a 50% chance of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- SkillsActive Case Study: Norfolk County Council
- The main purpose of the job of the Disability Sports Coordinator at Norfolk County Council is to promote inclusion and equity in sport and to provide sporting opportunities for people with disabilities in the county of Norfolk. This requires a great deal of coordination and awareness raising. A typical day...
- White papers 2006-02-15
- SkillsActive Case Study: English Federation of Disability Sport (EFDS)
- The job of the Community and Education Implementation Manager is to co-ordinate the implementation of the EFDS education and community targets working with partners and supporting nine regional managers. This person wanted to make a difference to the lives of disabled people through sport. There are few people with a...
- Case studies 2005-10-21
- Disability: Integration Vs. Accommodation
- During the Twentieth Century the advancement of medical treatments, coupled with progressive socialour inclusion policies worked to change the status of persons with disabilities. In the Western world, all citizens are valued and efforts to include as many people in the work of the communities are not only good social...
- White papers 2006-01-21
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