Tim's Talking about Health Care Reform, ADA and BLS

THIS JUST IN.....

Did you know that requiring your employee to be 100% before returning to work could be a problem? It would seem that when an employee with an ADA disability is unable to return to full duty but wants to return to work the employer is obligated to try and see if some sort of reasonable accommodation can be made to return the person to work under restrictions.


Apparently employers are not required to remove essential functions of the job or create a new job in order to make this happen. So, you might want to check out your return to work policy (if you even have one) to avoid one of those hard lessons compliments of the Federal government.


TEMP JOBS SHOOT UP IN MARCH
Temp jobs rose by 28,800 in March to about 2.26 million according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The temp penetration rate rose to 1.73% in March from 1.71 percent of the total workforce.


As we've pointed out before increases in temporary employment bodes well for the economy as temp hires are a pre-cursor to companies adding permanent staff.


WHO SAYS WE ALL CAN'T GET ALONG?
Health care reform being what it is, it is at least comforting to know that all the powers that be were able to agree to repeal Section 9006 of the new law that would have required businesses to 1099 every vendor they use.


Talk about killing trees....and can you imagine how many new IRS employees would have needed to be hired to play with all that paper?


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