by David Schek | Apr 1, 2013 | News, Professional Employer Organization (PEO), Workers' Compensation Insurance
I Would Hate to See The NFL’s Workers Compensation Rates After This Lawsuit……
California law allows NFL players to make a claim in California if they have played at least one game in the state. The plaintiffs argue that the arbitration award violates California and federal law and public policy by waiving their ability to seek workers comp in California, records show.
U.S. District Court Judge William H. Alsup ordered the three cases to be consolidated on March 13, court records show.
The NFL Management Council and the four NFL teams filed a counter suit on March 8 asking the court to require the players to file any workers comp claims in the state specified by their respective player contracts, records show.
The California comp lawsuits are part of several claims being made against the NFL by former players seeking compensation for injuries suffered on the field. At least 2,400 former players have sued the league over neurological and cognitive problems that they allege were caused by football-related head injuries.
Most of the concussion-related cases have been consolidated into multi district litigation in the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. The NFL is expected to use an exclusive remedy defense in those lawsuits
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While your staffing and contract employees probably do not wear football helmets on the job, you can see that workers compensation insurance is a priority in all businesses- even in the NFL.
Call us at 202-302-1212 to discuss how how we can offer you a lower priced workers compensation insurance program using a Professional Employer Organization (PEO.) Also please visit us at www.StaffingCompSolutions.com. Finally, given the complexity of these legal claims, perhaps the NFL owners are wishing they had used a PEO as a human resource and workers compensation partner!
All the best
David Schek
President
StaffingCompSolutions.com
American Staffing Association Member
California Staffing Association Member
Exclusive PEO Broker for the United States Staffing Association
by David Schek | Mar 25, 2013 | Professional Employer Organization (PEO), Staffing Company, Workers Comp, Workers' Compensation Insurance
When I owned my own multi state, 15K+ employee staffing company for 16 years, I often had discussions with my Professional Employer Organization (PEO) workers compensation risk management specialist about how I could control my workers compensation insurance costs. My PEO representative would remind me that the easiest and most direct way to lower my premiums, was to make sure that an injured worker is offered light duty assignments as soon as they get the green light from the medical doctor treating their injury.
I followed that advice and always maintained a very low mod. Below is a GREAT article about best practices for using Light Duty effectively.
http://www.workerscompensation.com/compnewsnetwork/workers-comp-blogwire/16339-light-duty-return-to-work-program-implementation-tips.html
After you have had a chance to review this article, let’s talk about other ways to reduce your workers compensation insurance and back office costs by partnering with a Professional Employer Organization (PEO)
Remember, just like you are for your clients, I am available 7 days a week to help my clients address their staffing business concerns. Please feel free to contact me at 202-302-1212 and visit our web site at www.StaffingCompSolutions.com
All the best
David Schek
President
StaffingCompSolutions.com
American Staffing Association Member
California Staffing Association Member
Exclusive PEO Broker for the United States Staffing Association
by David Schek | Mar 18, 2013 | Professional Employer Organization (PEO), Staffing Company, Workers Comp, Workers' Compensation Insurance
While it is hard to generalize from one legal case, this one may help you to understand why partnering with a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) can save you time and money.
A Customer Service representative sued her employer after she was fired for having anxiety attacks which forced her to take time away from the job. The employee was fired after taking a few days off without telling the employer. She was subsequently awarded 16M because the (California) court felt she earned this amount in damages (please do not ask me to explain this amount) Actually she was awarded only 5.1M, but the court added treble damages so the total was 21M. See this case/link below
http://www.swrnn.com/2013/02/15/los-angeles-woman-fired-for-having-panic-attacks-awarded-21-7-million/
The take away from this story is two fold. First California can be a very expensive state to employ people, Second, employing people these days without the use of a human resource specialist like a PEO is inviting trouble.
Had the employer been using a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) they may not have made this personnel mistake, and more importantly, certainly would have had a qualified human resource/ legal partner to help deal with the aftermath of this management decision.
Please feel free to contact Work Comp Staffing Solutions at 202-302-1212 to discuss your PEO needs and how you can get a worker’s compensation quote. Also visit us at www.StaffingCompSolutions.com to learn more about PEO’s and other workers compensation insurance solutions.
All the best
David Schek
President
StaffingCompSolutions.com
American Staffing Association Member
California Staffing Association Member
Exclusive PEO Broker for the United States Staffing Association
by David Schek | Mar 11, 2013 | Professional Employer Organization (PEO), Workers Comp, Workers' Compensation Insurance
I speak to dozens of staffing company owners each month. All size companies and all niches. Almost all of them are seeing their payroll costs increasing and are not sure what to do about them. There are 3 reasons that this is happening now:
- Increased healthcare costs
- Higher workers compensation insurance rates
- Increased state unemployment rates
As a former staffing owner, I know the last thing I ever wanted to do was to talk about having to increase my prices to a client. But as an industry, we are at that “tipping point” where workers compensation and other key payroll costs like Obamacare and unemployment costs are forcing staffing owners to have that tough conversation about raising prices.
Having managed many of these “sensitive ” client conversations successfully in the past, I have found some great ways to delicately talk about pricing issues- especially when it comes to workers compensation insurance rates and overall payroll costs. The key is to use hard data to reflect what is going on in the market place.
Below is a good article with hard data describing the trends for workers compensation insurance rates.
http://www.iii.org/facts_statistics/workplace-safety-workers-comp.html
Please feel free to call me at 202 302-1212 or visit us at www.StaffingCompSolutions.com so we can discuss this very important issue and ways to make you more profitable.
All the best
David Schek
President
StaffingCompSolutions.com
American Staffing Association Member
California Staffing Association Member
Exclusive PEO Broker for the United States Staffing Association
by David Schek | Mar 5, 2013 | Professional Employer Organization (PEO), Staffing Company, Workers Comp, Workers' Compensation Insurance
Last weeks blog generated ALOT of feedback from staffing owners who could relate to the additional pressure or “HEAT” they feel these days about workers compensation insurance. One of the staffing owners said, “Everyday I feel like I am one accident away from losing my business.”
During the first 2 months of 2013 we helped many staffing companies with their workers compensation insurance challenges. Here are two examples of the staffing companies we helped in February:
- A 10M light industrial day labor staffing company that needed to generate the payroll themselves- and was turned away by nearly every carrier. So we found a PEO solution that allowed them to generate their own payroll and included lowering their deductible from 250K to 50K.
- A start up medical staffing medical company that needed workers compensation insurance coverage in 10 states and could not afford hefty deposits as a new company. Their solution included a guaranteed cost program using PEO with Zurich insurance
Please contact us today at 202-302-1212 or visit us at www.StaffingCompSolutions.com and we would be glad to share more success stories with you. Most importantly, we will help you solve your workers compensation insurance challenges.
All the best
David Schek
President
StaffingCompSolutions.com
American Staffing Association Member
California Staffing Association Member
Exclusive PEO Broker for the United States Staffing Association
