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early and safe return to work

By Clear Path Employer Services | 3 Minutes Read May 24, 2016

Doctor’s note not necessarily final word with WSIB

Employers should deploy a number of strategies to minimize their workers' compensation related costs. One such strategy is to ensure you have instituted effective Early and Safe Return to Work (RTW) practices and procedures, including making an offer of suitable modified work for those employees who require modified duties a standard procedure.

Article by Clear Path Employer Services / Employee Relations, Health and Safety, Payroll, Union Relations / doctor's note, early and safe return to work, employment law, Functional Abilities Form, suitable modified work, workers compensation, wsib

By Marcia Scheffler | 4 Minutes Read September 27, 2013

Return to work and the duty to accommodate in non-WSIB cases

So your employee is off work again for the third time this year, you have no idea when they are coming back and their physician’s note is a vague cipher. It is not a work injury, so you know you don’t have to worry about WSIB, but it is a staffing issue for your organization and a serious concern. What should you do?

Article by Marcia Scheffler / Employee Relations, Health and Safety, Human Rights, Payroll / accommodation, Disability, duty to accommodate, early and safe return to work, employee disability, Employee illness, fitness to return to work, managing absenteeism, Ontario human rights commission, Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, return an employee to the workplace after an extended absence, Return to work, Return to work policy, return to work process, right to return to the same job or a comparable one, staffing issue, work-related claims, wsib, WSIB work reintegration policies

By Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD | 2 Minutes Read June 1, 2011

Sweeping changes at the WSIB – Learn the latest

There have been some sweeping changes at the Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) this year. Are you ready for the new return-to-work and New Experimental Experience Rating (NEER) policies? And do you know about the soon-to-be effective Bill 160? Come join us at the annual Employment Law Conference to Learn the latest.

Article by Christina Catenacci, BA, LLB, LLM, PhD / Administration, Health and Safety / Bill 160, Colleges and Universities, early and safe return to work, employment law, Labour Market Re-entry Program, Ministry of Labour, Ministry of Training, NEER policies, New Experimental Experience Rating, new work reintegration policies, re-employment, return to work policies, return-to-work program, workers compensation, Workplace Safety and Insurance Board, wsib

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