Monthly Archives: July 2008
Can Injured Employees Return to Work? Successfully?
All too often, an injured worker is not put back into the workforce for one of three reasons. First, employers do not feel that they can offer the employee a limited but meaningful job. Or second, you worry that the recovering employee, who...
Teenage Worker Safety – It’s My First Job – Make Sure It’s Not My Last!
From CDC’s website – Read Statistics
Approximately 2.3 million adolescents aged 16 to 17 years worked in the U.S. in 2007. Official employment statistics are not available for younger adolescents who are also known to work, especially...
Case Study: Impact of Delayed Carpal Tunnel Diagnosis
Background:
Joan has been employed for twelve years as an administrative assistant at AXZ Company. On December 3, 2007, Joan notice a pain in both of her hands, initially she dismisses the pain and continues working. One week later the pain...
Employers Commit Fraud Too..
I read an article today in the Mercury News about an employer who moved the body of an employee who died on the job to an orchid field so they could avoid workers’ compensation benefits. Shocking!!
According to the article the employer...
If You Can’t Work You Shouldn’t be on TV
Apparently Garrett A. Dalton forgot he was on workers’ compensation when he entered a contest to win Hannah Montana tickets. According to news reports Mr. Dalton entered a radio station contest that required him to dress up in woman’s...
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