Does your current absence management program meet your needs?
The right absence management program helps employees take the time to which they are entitled – all while ensuring optimal return-to-work outcomes, saving your company time and money, ensuring compliance, and boosting productivity.
Does your current absence management program achieve these goals? Our resources can help you make sure.
- How can you improve absence management?
If you’re thinking of giving your leave management program a second look, the Absence Management Scorecard can help you understand how your efforts compare to your peers.
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- 5 best practices that drive absence management success
Companies that follow these five best practices are better positioned to create better outcomes for their employees.
- Our research recommends these supporting activities:
- Offer wellness/prevention programs
- Offer wellness program incentives
- Integrated disability/FMLA reporting
- Disease management referrals
- Centralized STD/FMLA administration
Learn more in our latest report The Path Forward: Managing employee absence beyond the pandemic
Key reasons why employers choose to outsource
If your company struggles with the following, see how Guardian can help:
- Lack of expertise and/or difficulty interpreting and managing FML leaves.
This can lead to Department of Labor investigations and fines, and lawsuits that can be costly and disruptive — regardless of the judgement. Guardian can provide continuous monitoring of federal and state leave regulations by an accomplished team of legal and compliance experts.
- Increased complexity with and difficulty applying Americans with Disabilities Act and “leave as an accommodation."
Guardian can provide comprehensive ADA administrative services available — including management of the certification and documentation process, and clinical/consultative support.
- Trouble keeping up with coordinating different leave types and tracking intermittent leaves.
Guardian provides leave coverage, including federal and state leaves, company leaves, insured and self-funded short-term disability, and state paid family and medical leaves.
- Difficulty ensuring consistency of policies, processes and treatment of all employees in all company locations.
This can fuel perceptions of favoritism and discrimination, as well as cause compliance/legal issues. With Guardian eligibility is rules-driven based on current employer specifications, laws and guidelines which keeps them objective and uniform.
- Overall impact of lost employee work days— from re-training existing team members and hiring temporary help, to overtime pay and morale issues with other employees.
Our claims and clinical teams closely collaborate on return-to-work and stay-at-work strategies to maximize total productivity.
Why you should consider outsourcing your absence management with Guardian
- Compliance with all federal and state regulations
- Close collaboration on return-to-work and stay-at-work strategies to maximize total productivity
- Access to self-service claims information, including the ability to enter intermittent absences and return-to-work dates, submit new absences, enroll in direct deposit, electronically sign releases, and upload paperwork
- Proactive outreach by leave and clinical professionals to support timely and safe return to work
- And more!
Guardian can help you take a closer look at how your absence management efforts are serving your employees, and your business.
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