Nearly half (48 percent) will discuss salary during initial conversations or during the first job interview. How are employers basing pay?About one third of employers keep track of what competitors pay comparable employees via job postings (33 percent) or market average reports (34 percent), but many (35 percent) don't factor in external compensation at all. Haefner notes that this can hurt employers competing for skilled labor. "Forty-nine percent of hiring managers surveyed said job candidates have refused offers due to salary," said Haefner. "It's critical that recruiters and hiring managers are armed with up-to-date compensation data.
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Fired public housing chief seeks workers' comp
29, records show. That's four days after he requested his leave of absence for "personal reasons" and indicated he would not seek to renew his contract, which expired in June. Alvarez filed the claim April 26, about two weeks after he was fired amid mounting concern about his leadership of the public housing agency, which was about to run out of money, was rated one of the two worst in the state, and was the subject of a federal probe into its contracting practices. The Housing Authority was also defending itself against lawsuits from three former employees, including two who said they were discriminated against for taking paternity or disability leave. In one case currently at trial, Beverly Bernell Myres , a workers' compensation analyst with the Housing Authority, said she was fired while out on disability leave with a knee injury. Her lawsuit says Alvarez asked in a meeting, "How can the workers' comp person be out on workers' comp?" He also "made derisive comments" about her disability, the suit says.
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Court rules widow of off-duty NM police officer is entitled to workers' compensation benefits
Thirteen senators voted no. The workers compensation system is far from fair, said Dominick Marino, president of the Professional Firefighters Association of New Jersey. "A firefighter who is on the job 20 years would have to say where and when he contracted the cancer, and there no way to do that the city, municipality, employers they have all records. It's a long, drawn-out battle." The bill was first introduced in the 2006-07 legislative session. This was the first time it passed both houses, according to the Office of Legislative Services website. The bill is named for the late Thomas P.
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Padilla named Workers' Compensation Administration judge
Schultz may have hit his head on a rock and the injury could have incapacitated him, according to a medical examiner. In a ruling issued Monday, the Court of Appeals overturned a decision by the workers compensation judge that Cheryl Schultz wasnt entitled to benefits because her husband wasnt performing the duties of his job when he died. The court said benefits will be provided for off-duty law enforcement officers injured or killed in emergency situations reasonably calling for police officer assistance. If it is our expectation as a society that police officers put themselves in harms way, sometimes irrespective of their on-duty status, then it should also be our expectation that such officers be compensated when they are injured in the course of doing so, the court said in an opinion written by Judge Cynthia Fry. George Weeth, a lawyer for Cheryl Schultz, said the decision expanded the states legal framework for providing workers compensation benefits for off-duty police. That is the policy that poor Cheryl has been trying to establish for 10 years now, Weeth said. Its been a long road to get here. He estimated that the widow and her son may be entitled to death benefits of about $300,000, but said the final amount will be determined later by a workers compensation judge. The family is entitled to payments for funeral expenses up to $7,500 and some medical costs. The case has been the subject of several appellate court rulings since the workers compensation judge initially ruled that the widows claim was filed too late and her husbands death didnt happen in the course of his employment. The state Supreme Court twice revived the case after the Court of Appeals ruled against Cheryl Schultz.
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Georgia workers' comp payments dip
The first area, which is the area that I am most concerned about, is that by adding 30 million or more insured, as the Affordable Care Act is projected to do, over time, that its going to lengthen the amount of time it takes for an injured worker to see a medical provider. I think this will be especially true in certain geographic areas of the country and with certain medical specialties. Steve Festa, chief claims officer for Reno, Nev.-based EMPLOYERS, has some concerns about the impact of the Affordable Care Act on workers compensation. The other area that I have a concern with respect to the Affordable Care impact on workers compensation is that workers compensation does not have the leverage from a pricing standpoint that health insurance does. Workers compensation makes up only about 2 percent of the medical spend in this country and. As the Affordable Care Act ramps up, what I look to happen is that the medical provider community will look to leverage and recover some of their profit. I think theyll lose through the Affordable Care Act from the workers compensation community, as well as other payers with less leverage and the cost shifting will occur. Even before the Affordable Care Act was put in place, we already see some of that today.
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Senate fails to revive workers' comp bill for first responders
Padilla , has been appointed as a workersa compensation judge for the New Mexico Workersa Compensation Administration. Workersa Compensation judges hear and decide disputes over benefits due to injured workers. Padilla has more than 25 years of legal experience in both private practice and public service that includes 16 years of experience in workersa compensation law, according to Ned S. Fuller , director of the New Mexico Workersa Compensation Administration, who announced the appointment. From 1992 through 1997 he was recognized as a Certified Specialist in Workersa Compensation law by the New Mexico Board of Legal Specialization. Padilla has served for the past nine years as chief administrative law judge for the New Mexico State Personnel Office. He earned his law degree from visit site Southern Methodist University, in Texas in 1988. With the new appointment, there will be five workersa compensation judges in the Dispute Resolution Bureau based out of Albuquerque, who hear workersa compensation cases throughout New Mexico. By law, workersa compensation judges are appointed for an initial one-year term, which may be followed by subsequent five-year appointments.
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Executive Frets ACA Impact on California Workers' Comp
Goshien in November, 2012 for the intentional violation of the Illinois workers compensation statute. Prior to 2005, the failure to obtain workers compensation insurance was a misdemeanor in Illinois. In 2005, the failure to be insured for workers compensation was changed from a misdemeanor to a Class 4 felony, which carries penalties of 1 to 3 years in the penitentiary and/or fines of up to $25,000. It remained a Class 4 felony when Illinois passed the revised Workers Compensation Act of 2011. Failure To Obtain Workers Comp is Class 4 Felony That Will Cost Jail Time Following several continuances, Mr. Goshien on July 25, 2013 entered a guilty plea to the Class 4 felony charge. He will return to court in October, 2013 for sentencing, pursuant to the pleas agreement and agreement to pay a fine of $25,000. IWCC Chairman Michael P. Latz released a statement of Employers who refuse to obtain workers compensation insurance put their employees at risk, gain an unfair advantage over law-abiding competitors and ultimately shift the cost of their business to the Illinois taxpayers. Mr. Goshiens efforts to avoid purchasing workers compensation insurance will most likely end up with him going to jail. While employers may resent the state mandating their purchase of workers compensation insurance, it is the law in every state (with specific exceptions), and there is no reason for an employer to go to jail over not having workers compensation insurance. While you cannot avoid the requirements to have workers compensation insurance, you can reduce the cost of workers compensation. For more information on how your company can lower the cost of workers compensation (without going to jail), please contact us. Author Michael B.
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Go to Jail, Do Not Pass Go (Go = Work Comp Insurance)
The Peach State paid $1.39 billion in workersa comp benefits, down 4.3 percent from 2010, the report said. It should be noted private firms in Georgia with fewer than three employees are exempt from mandatory coverage. Nationally, workersa comp payments rose in 2011 as the U.S. economy continued to recover, NASI said. Total benefits were up 3.5 percent to $60.2 billion. The benefits include a 4.5 percent rise in medical care spending ($29.9 billion) and a 2.6 percent rise in wage replacement benefits ($30.3 billion). Total costs to employers jumped 7.1 percent to $77.1 billion. aWorkersa compensation often grows with the growth in employment and earnings,a said Marjorie Baldwin , chair of NASIas Workersa Compensation Data Panel and economics professor at Arizona State University . aWhen benefits and costs are measured relative to total covered wages, then benefits remained unchanged, and costs to employers rose very modestly (to $1.27 per $100 of wages) after declining in the previous five years.a
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