Return to Work: What’s the Employer’s Duty to Accommodate?
How far must employers go to accommodate employees with medical demands? There are a couple of standards to compare yourself against.
Category: Employers
Webinar Recording – Medicalization: How to Avoid an HR Trainwreck!
How do you combat the effects medicalization has on your employees and your company? It’s a complicated problem addressed in our webinar: Medicalization: How to Avoid an HR Train Wreck!
Medicalization and the Workplace: How Do Employers Reduce the Cost of Medicalized Employees?
Medical conditions or accidents can cost a company money on top of affecting the employee’s quality of life. But what about when the condition doesn’t need to be a condition at all?
Medicalization and Subjective Conditions for Employers
Employers may find employees off work due to a host of subjective conditions that can’t be objectively verified by medicine, but nonetheless get treated as medical problems. Here’s what employers should watch out for.
How Do You Reduce the Cost of a Workplace Injury?
You can reduce the cost of a workplace injury. Independent Medical Assessments give you the information you need to ensure a faster, safer, return to work for you employees.
What’s the Cost of a Workplace Injury?
When an accident happens in the workplace, the employer stands to lose money. But where do these costs come from? And what can you do to reduce them?
Medicalization and Work — Not Everything is a Real Medical Problem
Medicine itself can get cancer: it’s called medicalization. It can complicate workplace absence issues and create patients dependent on treatment where problems don’t really exist.
Western Medical Assessments Now an Official Supplier of Alberta Motor Transport Association
Western Medical Assessments announces that it’s an official supplier of Alberta Motor Transport Association. We specialize in bringing clarity to cases of workplace medical leave, and help trucking companies get workers back safely and swiftly.
Independent Medical Examinations in the Return to Work Process
An independent medical examination can be a useful part of a complicated return to work issue. By consulting with an independent medical expert, you can get the clarity you need to get things back to normal.
Mental Illnesses: When Do Disability Benefits Apply?
Mental illnesses can present in complicated ways, and generally don’t have a visual element. Disability case managers need to be aware of the scope and spectrum of illnesses in order to make the right decisions.