No one likes being confined to a bed, especially an injured employee that wants to be earning a living. Still, that same employee could face some real challenges, once he or she has decided to return to work.
The obligations of employee that is recovering from an injury is to minimize the damages. Follow the advice of your healthcare provider to limit the extent of the negative consequences, as related to your injury.
Obligations of worker that has recovered from a given injury:
Accept the findings of a healthcare provider, it those findings indicate that the worker’s recovery has been completed satisfactorily. Work with a hired injury lawyer in Spruce Grove, along with an employer and family members, in order to get ready for returning to work. Coordinate your activities on the day before your return, so that you can get a good night’s sleep.
Employer’s obligations when a recovered worker returns to the workplace:
Accommodate the worker’s needs, if creation of such accommodations does not place an undue hardship on you and the company that you head. You need to arrange for those in charge of preparing pay checks to arrange for preparation of the recovered worker’s check, at the conclusion of the most appropriate pay period. Study the list of requested accommodations, and check to see which of them could be implemented, within the existing work environment.
Accommodations that an employer can avoid, if hoping to escape from the imposition created by an undue hardship:
A change that would force other employees to get hit with a pay cut. An alteration that would call for changes to the size of the existing business/company. In other words, any changes should be made within the company’s existing structure. There is no need to order an accommodation that would disrupt a collective agreement.
Avoid making any move that threatens to trigger the appearance of morale problems among the other workers. For instance, do not reduce the recovered worker’s hours, while adding to the job responsibilities of a number of that employee’s co-workers.
Rule-out the creation of accommodations that threaten to introduce new and unwanted safety risks. Seek information on an alternative to the proposed/threatening change. No proposed change should run counter to the existing job standards, especially those created for that recovered employee’s assigned position within the company structure. That could mean calling for some assistance from the person that is supposed to benefit from the considered change.
For instance, it could be that before getting injured, the now-recovered worker climbed stairs, to retrieve items from a storage facility. If that particular employee can no longer handle that task, someone else has to. By speaking with the returning employee, the employer could keep from lowering the company’s standards.