How do we motivate management to use the concept of return to work in a restricted duty capacity?
Responses: • Develop Worker’ Compensation cost allocation model and sell implementation to management. WC dollars would then come directly out of the departments/areas, providing a built-in incentive for management participation in efforts to bring employees back to work. • Educate management about the consequences to their experience modifiers (insurance costs) when employees are not brought back in restricted capacities. Currently a misperception exists that there are no real cost consequences to losing less-skilled people. • Translate lost productivity (in the form of absent employees) into dollars that contribute to the bottom line. • Build a culture where returning to work is part of employee ethics by first getting the CEO to champion the effort. This will include initiatives that make employees feel valued, such as supervisors sending get-well cards to employees, calling to check on progress, etc. • Implement a system that discourages fraud including surveillance, job descriptio
