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Mental health in the workplace: What HR needs to know

Business Management Daily

These laws include the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act ( FMLA ). Clarifying that you are ready to work with employees to accommodate absences for treatment, modified schedules or other reasonable accommodations. FMLA leave is also available intermittently.

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Few “industrial diseases” were included in early legislation and typically by industry or process ( things like lead poisoning in smelting or sulfur poisoning in coal mining) and not diseases. I've included a list of notable pandemics from Madhav N, Oppenheim B, Gallivan M, et al. Source: 1918 Annual report ibid.,