Providing Immediate Care After a Workplace Injury Occurs
Even with a robust safety program in place, accidents on the job do happen. How you respond to an accident can be critical. Recently, ICW Group's Senior Vice President...
Considerations for our Aging Workforce
A variety of reasons, including COVID-19 and the economy, are causing aging workers to remain in the workforce longer than in the past. As older generations continue working past...
Work Comp Fraud Prevention Starts During the Hiring Process
Knowing who you hire is an excellent start to preventing fraudulent worker's compensation claims in your workplace. A strained labor market has made good hires even harder to come...
Four Things Employers Should Know About Pay Transparency
Have you heard about pay transparency? It’s the idea that companies should be open with employees and applicants about pay and, more broadly, what factors they include when making...
What Employers Should Know About Trauma in the Workplace
When a distressing event occurs in or affects the workplace, leaders need to be ready and able to support their employees before, during, and after the event.
2008 was a difficult...
Making the Most of Job Interviews
When interviewing job candidates, time is critical. Let’s look at some basic practices that will enable you and your job candidates to make the best use of this time.
The...
What’s Work-Life Integration and Why it’s Important
It’s an understatement to say that collectively, we’ve experienced substantial change in the past two years. Perhaps one of the most notable is the mobilization towards an "integrated life"...
How to Address Employee Concerns
When employees share concerns with leaders, it's paramount to respond with care and empathy. Leaders can think of it as an opportunity to build trust. For most employees, sharing...
Supreme Court Halts OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard
As you've likely heard, the United States Supreme Court issued a ruling granting a temporary stay of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) vaccine or weekly testing Emergency Temporary Standard...
Leverage Your Company Values To Attract And Retain Talent
As we continue to resume work in a very different way than pre-pandemic times, companies across all industries are experiencing what has been coined as the great resignation. During...
