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A return-to-work process after an extended employee absence

Insperity

Ensure compliance with all relevant HR documentation and legal requirements. Reduce costs associated with workers’ compensation , disability and medical insurance (if an employee can return to work faster). As you bring an employee back to work, be careful to comply with all relevant federal and state legal requirements: 1.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

Mad in America

Almost every advance in technology makes corresponding demands on the human person. Psychedelics: While still controversial due to a welter of legal, cultural, and safety concerns, it now seems unavoidable that psychedelics will be part of the mental health care of the future. The servant becomes the master.

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Therapy by App: A Clinical Psychologist Tries BetterHelp

Mad in America

One advantage of BetterHelp is that because the service does not bill insurance, there is no need for clinicians to provide a diagnosis and target therapy to fit the “medical necessity” requirements imposed by third-party payers. Therapists are hired as independent contractors who are paid by the hour and are not technically employees.

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if the job that laid me off wants to bring me back, can I decline and still collect unemployment?

Ask a Manager

Legally, do I have to accept? Unemployment insurance (UI) isn’t there to pad your departure-by-choice from a job you no longer want. If the job comes back (as many jobs will be doing in these days of temporary layoffs), legally you can’t turn it down and continue collecting benefits just because you prefer your current situation.

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So-Called Suicide Experts Recommend Antidepressants, Which Increase Suicides

Mad in America

The authors refused to withdraw the article, which resulted in a five-month battle where they needed legal assistance from their university and from Germany where the publisher is located. What saved her was that her private insurance ran out. There was nothing defamatory in the content.

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interviewer became rude after I got his name wrong, coworkers keep asking to see my baby bump, and more

Ask a Manager

Accidentally calling the interviewer by the name of someone else you’d been corresponding with isn’t ideal, but it’s not an outrage. For one thing, if you’re moving to another state, that will have legal and financial consequences for them and could be prohibitive. (If It happens; people slip up and forget names.

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new employer says I can’t wear my wedding ring, does it look bad to send emails late at night, and more

Ask a Manager

I have a question about a seemingly minor behavior – time of emails or general tech correspondence. He said that he didn’t want to do that because the daycare is a benefit provided by my employer, and it would be comparable to me trying to set up health insurance through his employer. Which one of us is right?