by Maureen Gallagher, WorkCompEdge Contributor Layoffs have become an unfortunate reality of everyday life in America. While historically layoffs are often due to legitimate competitive practices (and in some cases corporate heartlessness), I don’t have to tell you that almost all layoffs in the past 18 months have been due to the severe economic downturn. [...]
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by Maureen Gallagher, WorkCompEdge Contributor In America, we have a Uniform Plumbing Code to protect the health of the nation (not to mention the sanity of plumbers and builders) and a Uniform Commercial Code enacted in all 50 states for a standard method of dealing with business law questions involving commerce. Unfortunately, no such code exists [...]
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by Frank Pennachio, WorkCompEdge Blog Contributor Are there really that many “bad employees” out there crippling the workers comp system? The prevailing message I received at a recent two day workshop on workers compensation is that there are. But I don’t agree. The workshop was conducted by a renowned risk management organization and primarily attended [...]
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