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The Philadelphia Inquirer
There is a big difference between helping employees with alcoholism and helping them with opioid addictions, says Gregory P. DeLapp, chief executive of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association. People are changing jobs more often, DeLapp explained, making both the employer and the employee less willing to invest in job retention. "If you take away the fact that your job may be at stake, you’ve lost a significant leverage point," he said. In addition, "with the opioids, problems develop so rapidely that you aren't going to have the reams of documentation of job-performance issues," DeLapp said. "The person is going from injury to addiction to near-death in months to a year instead of in decades."
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The National Law Review
Many employers have experience of dealing with prolonged, costly and challenging sickness absences of employees with mental health issues. While inevitably there will be situations in which sickness absence is medically necessary or the most appropriate solution, very often it may at the same time increase the employee's feelings of isolation and so exacerbate the problem.
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Human Resource Executive Online
In its initial defense of the beleaguered Bill O'Reilly, Fox News maintained that not one of his accusers used the company's harassment hotline to make claims against O'Reilly. Experts say the Fox case holds lessons on how to ensure HR hotlines do what they were designed to do.
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Senior Homes
It's normal for people to raise a glass to toast to celebrate big milestones in life, including weddings, promotions and also when retirement rolls around. For most people, a drink or two of celebratory wine or champagne won’t lead to a lifetime of alcoholism, but a recent study by the National Institutes of Health suggests that alcohol abuse in adults over 60 is a very real issue that tends to worsen with age.
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Fast Company
Corporate wellness programs are a nearly $8 billion industry in the U.S. and are expected to grow at a clip of nearly 7.8 percent through 2021. The Global Wellness Institute puts that number at $40 billion worldwide, even though only roughly 9 percent of the 3 billion-plus global workforce has access to workplace wellness programs at their jobs.
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The Legal Examiner
The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) compiles a report each year on the number of deaths on the job in America. Their 2017 edition of the report, "Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect" reveals that workplace deaths and injuries are still occurring far too often.
This marks the 26th year the AFL-CIO has completed this report, and though progress has been made, much remains to be done to protect workers on the job.
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New Hampshire Business Review
It was all over the news and social media recently when United Airlines personnel selected passengers, who were already seated on a plane, to involuntarily give up their seats to make room for traveling flight crews. To make matters worse, they also forcefully removed one passenger from that plane.
The decisions to terminate employees or reduce the size of a workforce in a layoff are never easy. There are, however, some lessons all employers can learn from the recent United Airlines incident, and with that hopefully avoid the negative publicity and potential legal liability that can result from missteps in the termination process.
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mHealthIntelligence
A new survey from the Health Advancement Research Organization found that employers can use wearable technology, along with supplemental support, to greatly enhance their wellness programs.
On average, 53 percent of employers report high initial and sustained interest in wellness programs that include wearable technology, and most employers state they intend to keep using wearable devices due to favorable employee response. More than half of employees continued to participate in the wellness programs for more than six months, indicating that the programs are unobtrusive and potentially beneficial.
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