Wendy Sellers, The HR Lady®, will provide a comprehensive overview of workers’ compensation in this time of increasing injuries and spreading COVID-19 variants. You will learn how to handle claims correctly and protect your organization.
What You'll Learn
- How should you initially handle a workplace injury or illness?
- How can your workers’ compensation representative help you?
- What steps can you take to avoid workers’ compensation abuse and fraud?
- May you terminate an employee who has an active claim?
- When does workers’ compensation insurance cover COVID-19?
- What state-specific requirements must you follow to avoid penalties?
Training Overview
Workers’ compensation claims fueled by workplace reopenings and COVID-19 variants. Learn how to handle injuries and illnesses at work.
As people return to their workplaces, they are encountering more injuries, driving a growing number of workers’ compensation claims. At the same time, the Delta variant of COVID-19 is infecting a larger portion of the population, causing some workers to assert that their illnesses result from inadequate employer precautions.
You need to understand the basics of workers’ compensation, including handling injuries and illnesses at work, even if they seem minor or contrived. Your appropriate processing of claims will make a big difference when lawyers and courts get involved.
- How should you initially handle a workplace injury or illness?
- How can your workers’ compensation representative help you?
- What steps can you take to avoid workers’ compensation abuse and fraud?
- May you terminate an employee who has an active claim?
- When does workers’ compensation insurance cover COVID-19?
- What state-specific requirements must you follow to avoid penalties?
Who Should Attend?
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Expert Presenter
Wendy Sellers
- Known as The HR Lady®
- 25 years of experience in human resources and leadership development
- Master's degree in human resources
- Master's degree in health care administration
Credits
- This program has been approved for 1.0 general recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR, and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.
- This program is valid for 1.0 PDCs for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.
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