Does your current absence management program meet your needs?
We can help you find out. The right absence management program helps employees take the time to which they are entitled — all while ensuring optimal return-to-work outcomes, saving your company time and money, ensuring compliance, and boosting productivity. Does your current absence management program achieve these goals? Our resources can help you make sure.
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How can you improve absence management?
If you’re thinking of giving your leave management program a second look, the Absence Management Scorecard can help you understand how your efforts compare to your peers.
5 best practices that drive absence management success
Companies that follow these five best practices are better positioned to create better outcomes for their employees.
Our research recommends these supporting activities:
Offer wellness/prevention programs
Offer wellness program incentives
Integrated disability/FMLA reporting
Disease management referrals
Centralized STD/FMLA administration
Learn more in our latest report: The Value of Leave Integration: Coordinating benefits plans and leave policies contributes to improved outcomes
This can lead to Department of Labor investigations and fines, and lawsuits that can be costly and disruptive — regardless of the judgement. Guardian can provide continuous monitoring of federal and state leave regulations by an accomplished team of legal and compliance experts.
Guardian can provide comprehensive ADA administrative services available — including management of the certification and documentation process, and clinical/consultative support.
Guardian provides leave coverage, including federal and state leaves, company leaves, insured and self-funded short-term disability, and state paid family and medical leaves.
This can fuel perceptions of favoritism and discrimination, as well as cause compliance/legal issues. With Guardian eligibility is rules-driven based on current employer specifications, laws and guidelines which keeps them objective and uniform.
Our claims and clinical teams closely collaborate on return-to-work and stay-at-work strategies to maximize total productivity.
Why you should consider outsourcing your absence management with Guardian
Guardian provides a guided absence management experience that supports optimal return-to-work outcomes, protecting employers by taking complexity and compliance head on. Just a few of the benefits you and your employees will experience include:
Compliance with all federal and state regulations
Close collaboration on return-to-work and stay-at-work strategies to maximize total productivity
Access to self-service claims information, including the ability to enter intermittent absences and return-to-work dates, submit new absences, enroll in direct deposit, electronically sign releases, and upload paperwork
Proactive outreach by leave and clinical professionals to support timely and safe return to work
And more!
Guardian can help you take a closer look at how your absence management efforts are serving your employees, and your business.
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