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Review if your current absence management program meets your needs

The right absence management program helps employees take the time to which they're entitled — all while helping ensure 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?

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Key reasons why employers choose to outsource

Managing employee leaves can be complex, especially with ever evolving state and local laws. If any of these challenges are impacting your organization, outsourcing may help you keep better track of administration while staying compliant.

Ready to evaluate your current absence management program?

We've learned that there are 5 best practices that most consistently lead to positive absence management outcomes. Is your organization meeting those standards? Use the Guardian Absence Management Scorecard to compare your efforts against similar companies and identify opportunities to strengthen your absence management program.

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Why you should consider outsourcing your absence management with Guardian

Guardian will seamlessly guide you through the complexity, so you can feel more confident in compliance while your employees have the best possible leave experience when they need it. Here's what you and your people can count on:

  • Compliance with all federal and state regulations, along with ongoing updates

  • Close collaboration on return-to-work and stay-at-work strategies to maximize total productivity

  • Access to self-service claims information

  • Proactive outreach by leave and clinical professionals to support timely and safe return to work

  • Integration between your absence management program and other coverages you may have with Guardian, like group short-term disability (STD) insurance

  • And more!

Want to learn more about how other employers are outsourcing? Read our "The Value of Leave Integration: Coordinating benefits plans and leave policies contributes to improved outcomes" report.

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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.

Guardian can provide comprehensive ADA administrative services available — including management of the certification and documentation process, and clinical/consultative support.

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.

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.

Our claims and clinical teams closely collaborate on return-to-work and stay-at-work strategies to maximize total productivity.

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Guardian can help you take a closer look at how your absence management efforts are serving your employees, and your business. Reach out to us today.

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