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Are Workers’ Compensation benefits protected against the rising cost of living?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

To forestall this eventuality, the majority of North American workers’ compensation jurisdictions adjust periodic payments (sometimes called workers’ compensation pensions or permanent disability payments) to account for increases in the cost of living. percent increase effective January 2019.

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Best Methods for Attracting and Retaining Talented Employees

Business Management Daily

The ‘new normal’ is here to stay, and there likely will never be a return to the way things were (think 2019 and years prior). health insurance, FMLA, unemployment, etc.), Understanding today’s talent market Like it or not, the talent market irreversibly changed after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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How prepared are workers’ compensation systems for COVID-19?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The then chairman wrote: In the closing months of the last year we have been compelled to reject a number of claims arising out of the influenza epidemic, in which mothers with small children made application for pensions. Researchers have raised the alarms but not every government or insurer was listening. We were unable to answer.