IRE378H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Employee Benefits, Advantageous, Group Cohesiveness
30 Mar 2018
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Ire378 week 8 notes eaps and rtw strategies. Addressing behavioural disorders: eaps sometimes focus on "behavioural disorders" An employee benefit that covers all or part of the cost for employees to receive counseling, referrals, and advice in dealing with stressful issues in their lives. Benefits: employee retention, reduces supervisor involvement in dealing with behavioural problems. Legal protection: evidence of progressive discipline, helps to control costs, alcohol/drug abusers have higher medical care costs, enhances employee morale, "caring workplace, may cause employee resentment, referred employees, other employees perceptions of "special treatment" Health risk appraisals, health screenings, testing, health fairs, health education seminars, smoking cessation, lifestyle change: work/family balance initiatives, concierge services, parental leave, flexible work hours, telecommuting, providing child care subsidies. Legal push that prompted firms to make the workplace accommodate an employee with a temp or permanent disability, short of undue hardship: charter of rights and freedoms, canadian human rights act, employment equity act,
