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Lexology
In light of the recent news of tragic shootings and workplace violence around the country, employers are left wondering how they can protect their operations and employees from such events. Rightfully so — employers also have a duty to protect their employees, clients and customers from harm and can be held liable for failing to do so.
Recently, the State of New York enacted legislation making it a felony to assault certain public sector employees. While private employers don't have such sweeping authority, there are several steps they can take to ensure safety in the workplace.
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Financial Times
Daniel Pearson returned to work at EY, the professional services firm, after taking time off to deal with mental health problems and felt "absolutely terrified" of colleagues' attitudes to his illness and the uncertainty of how to deal with questions about his absence. Yet there was one person who made a difference, helping ease his re-entry to the workplace: his "buddy." This was a colleague who had experienced something similar.
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Waters Edge Recovery, a Joint Commission accredited, dual-diagnosis drug and alcohol treatment center located on the banks of the St. Lucie River in Stuart Florida. The facility’s waterfront location helps create a calm and restorative environment for reflection and recovery. Specializing in continuous communication, family support and complete EAP resources.
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The Wall Street Journal
The share of U.S. workers testing positive for illicit drug use reached its highest level in a decade, according to data from millions of workplace drug tests administered by Quest Diagnostics Inc., one of the nation’s largest medical-screening laboratories. Detection of illicit drugs – from marijuana to heroin to methamphetamine – increased slightly both for the general workforce and the “safety-sensitive” workforce, which includes millions of truck drivers, pilots, ship captains, subway engineers, and other transportation workers. Employers are required to test those individuals at random, as well as in specific situations such as after accidents occur.
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Utah Business
In the effort to treat the whole patient, doctors must grapple with one section of care still stigmatized by society, patients and even sometimes providers themselves: mental health.
A group of six professionals discussed the topic during a recent panel at the Utah Business Healthcare Solutions Summit. The initial consensus between the doctors and insurance providers on the panel was that, because work stress can create or exacerbate many symptoms of depression, anxiety or other mental ailments, the best place to treat and ease those is at the workplace.
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NPR
Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson's $20 million settlement with Fox News was unusual in some ways; she received an apology from the network and her complaint resulted in the ouster of former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.
Her high-profile case is just one of an increasing number of retaliation claims. Retaliation cases now exceed claims of race discrimination, making up about 45 percent of complaints filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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Addiction Professional
With the passage of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, California's Section 1115 waiver (Medi-Cal 2020), and possible adoption of the Adult Use of Marijuana Act by California voters in November, we are on the precipice of unprecedented change in the addiction treatment industry. Although increased focus and funding are positive developments, there are many potential problems that might arise if careful planning does not accompany these historic changes. Workforce shortages, insufficient treatment facility capacity, and oversight issues are of primary concern.
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Forbes
According to a RAND Corporation study in 2013, 85 percent of U.S. companies employing 1,000 people or more offer some sort of workplace wellness program. This is fantastic, right? But Gallup research shows that only 60 percent of U.S. employees are aware that their company offers a wellness program — and only 40 percent of those who are aware of the program say they actually participate. So that results in only 24 percent of employees taking advantage of these programs. Not so fantastic, right?
Although wellness is a high priority for employers and employees alike, programs are often under-used.
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Psych Central
A new model illustrates how economic globalization may create stressful employment factors in high-income countries. The high stress environments have triggered a worldwide epidemic of cardiovascular disease, researchers say. "We conclude from more than 30 years of epidemiological research that CVD is a disease of modern industrial society and not the natural result of aging," said Schnall.
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Journal Gazette
When opioid addicts count their losses, the numbers seem simple: One marriage. Two jobs. Custody of three children.
But when you measure the effects prescription drug dependence has on business, the math gets murkier.
You could start by multiplying daily wages by the number of times an addict calls in sick.
But how can you gauge what's lost when an employee reports to work but cleans five fewer hotel rooms, makes 10 fewer sales calls or stocks 15 fewer shelves than normal?
Some researchers have tried, estimating lost productivity at $229 billion to $335 billion a year, according to the Indiana attorney general's office. Those same studies found addicts are 33 percent less productive and 10 times more likely to miss work.
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