Attendance Management: Return-to-work co-ordinator works for Weyerhaeuser Canada

Buddy system gets employees back to work

Typically, when an employee suffers a serious injury or illness, the employer sends flowers and makes sure the disability benefits are in order. But the longer the disabled employee remains "out of sight, out of mind," the less likely it is that he or she will ever return to productive employment -- at enormous cost to employers and employees alike, according to new research to be presented at a conference in Vancouver today.