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Issue Commentary: NC Decision Shows Difficult Balancing Required for Lump-Sum Requests

The Workcomp Writer

97-44), the state’s Court of Appeals affirmed a decision by the North Carolina Industrial Commission denying an injured employee’s petition to receive a lump-sum payment related to her award of permanent and total disability (PTD) [ Blackwell v. The Commission had afforded little weight, therefore, to the two medical experts’ testimony.

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Perils and Promise: What Machines and Millennials are Doing to HR (Part 1)

Achievers

Starting in 2016, organizations began asking me not just about the future of work but more specifically about the future workforce. Let’s start with the math: More than a third of the current workforce are millennials and in 2016 they became the largest generation in the workforce. Who are the employees of the future? About the Author.

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Perils and Promise: What Machines and Millennials are Doing to HR (Part 1)

Achievers

Starting in 2016, organizations began asking me not just about the future of work but more specifically about the future workforce. Let’s start with the math: More than a third of the current workforce are millennials and in 2016 they became the largest generation in the workforce. Who are the employees of the future? About the Author.

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Issue Commentary: Compensability of Injuries Sustained as a Result of Inoculations

The Workcomp Writer

2016-Ohio-8304, 2016 Ohio App. Citing a 1928 decision by the state’s Supreme Court, the appellate court held that since the flu shot was not mandated by the employer, the fact that the inoculation was received at the employer’s facility, while the manager was on the clock, did not mean the injury was work-related.

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Issue Commentary: Direct and Natural Consequence Rule

The Workcomp Writer

The Virginia employer unsuccessfully argued that the employee’s decision to take part in the boating activity was sufficient to sever the causal link to his original injury. Later, her physicians advised that breast reduction might improve her back condition, but the employer refused the claim, contending it was not a covered medical expense.

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‘Upskilling’ a top priority for the decade ahead

HR Digest

This has less to do with rapidly evolving jobs, and more with the discrepancy between the skills people have and those needed for their future employability. It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile.

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