Early return-to-work is crucial in helping employees heal and managing claims. Studies conducted by Liberty Mutual have shown the longer injured workers stay home the longer it will take for them to fully recover, and the more likely it is they will never fully recover. Yes, it sucks working while you hurt, but it’s better than being permenantly disabled. As long as the doctor released her to work, she should work.
I’ve had claims drag on forever because overly-sympathetic doctors would not release an employee back to work when I had appropriate job duties available. The workers wound up getting a victim-mentality and most of them wound up unemployed with a few thousand dollars to show for it. There are very few big settlements in wokers’ comp; just get back to work and tough it out.
You apparently did NOT see the pictures in that article. Some of these people were disfigured for life by the “treatment” they received from their employer. If this kind of thing occurred in South America or Indonesia, you’d call it human rights violations. Because it happened in South Carolina you want to call it malingering?!?
Some of you ask of others what you yourselves would not do or want your kids to be done to them! Such hypocrisy is incredible!
Why do you want to treat immigrant workers as 2nd class citizens? For some racist bigots Hispanics have become in this country the slaves of the 21st century!
Incredulous, what pictures? I’ve never seen pictures in an IJ article, so have no idea what you’re talking about.
And Thomas, I ask nothing of others in this regard that I don’t demand of myself.
I call nobody malingerer unless they deserve it. I have too many eye-witness accounts and too much videotape evidence to blindly accept time-loss anymore. I am very aggressive when it comes to return-to-work. I want my workers back at work. This isn’t just for my benefit, it benefits the worker as well.
Employers do not have the right to injure employees. Safe work is simply the best way to do business all-around. However, once the injury occurs the employer should do everything lawful in their power to get the employee back to work as soon as possible.
um…does that mean if i slip and fall, have a heart attack and then get an open heart surgery – you want me to work the very minute i get out of surgery. there is a point, where recovery needs to be at home. some medications folks take, will not allow you to drive/operate heavy machinery. some even well cause you to be drowsy. are you willing as an employer to pick them up from work? or willing the worker a few days off in most cases? this place sounds like an extreme place. SAFETY should always be a #1 issue. but at what costs to the victim, do we place their sanity/pain when getting them back to work the next day. the military don’t even do that! lord knows, those folks work hard with no playtime hardly.
I won’t go into case-by-case. Arguments can be made for every case and people can pull worst-case scenarios out of the air until we all die. The reality is most workplace injuries can be accommodated and workers should return as soon as possible.
Yes there are some times when recovery must be at home. Yes there are times when you can’t accommodate things such as medication. But people need to realize that everyone has a vested interest in getting workers back to work as soon as possible.
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Early return-to-work is crucial in helping employees heal and managing claims. Studies conducted by Liberty Mutual have shown the longer injured workers stay home the longer it will take for them to fully recover, and the more likely it is they will never fully recover. Yes, it sucks working while you hurt, but it’s better than being permenantly disabled. As long as the doctor released her to work, she should work.
I’ve had claims drag on forever because overly-sympathetic doctors would not release an employee back to work when I had appropriate job duties available. The workers wound up getting a victim-mentality and most of them wound up unemployed with a few thousand dollars to show for it. There are very few big settlements in wokers’ comp; just get back to work and tough it out.
You apparently did NOT see the pictures in that article. Some of these people were disfigured for life by the “treatment” they received from their employer. If this kind of thing occurred in South America or Indonesia, you’d call it human rights violations. Because it happened in South Carolina you want to call it malingering?!?
Some of you ask of others what you yourselves would not do or want your kids to be done to them! Such hypocrisy is incredible!
Why do you want to treat immigrant workers as 2nd class citizens? For some racist bigots Hispanics have become in this country the slaves of the 21st century!
Incredulous, what pictures? I’ve never seen pictures in an IJ article, so have no idea what you’re talking about.
And Thomas, I ask nothing of others in this regard that I don’t demand of myself.
I call nobody malingerer unless they deserve it. I have too many eye-witness accounts and too much videotape evidence to blindly accept time-loss anymore. I am very aggressive when it comes to return-to-work. I want my workers back at work. This isn’t just for my benefit, it benefits the worker as well.
Employers do not have the right to injure employees. Safe work is simply the best way to do business all-around. However, once the injury occurs the employer should do everything lawful in their power to get the employee back to work as soon as possible.
um…does that mean if i slip and fall, have a heart attack and then get an open heart surgery – you want me to work the very minute i get out of surgery. there is a point, where recovery needs to be at home. some medications folks take, will not allow you to drive/operate heavy machinery. some even well cause you to be drowsy. are you willing as an employer to pick them up from work? or willing the worker a few days off in most cases? this place sounds like an extreme place. SAFETY should always be a #1 issue. but at what costs to the victim, do we place their sanity/pain when getting them back to work the next day. the military don’t even do that! lord knows, those folks work hard with no playtime hardly.
I won’t go into case-by-case. Arguments can be made for every case and people can pull worst-case scenarios out of the air until we all die. The reality is most workplace injuries can be accommodated and workers should return as soon as possible.
Yes there are some times when recovery must be at home. Yes there are times when you can’t accommodate things such as medication. But people need to realize that everyone has a vested interest in getting workers back to work as soon as possible.