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Originally Posted by Shez
You do know you can fire people on compo?
You just have to tell your insurers that you require someone in the position for X amount of hours a day, if that person can't do it, you can let them go. The insurers still have to pay them, but it is their problem, not your company's. It will also motivate your insurers to settle the claim.
Sure, they get money for nothing, but by the same token, they will find it hard to find work elsewhere, especially with an unsettled Workers Comp claim, so they will get theirs in the long run if they are not genuine.
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I would advise any company doing this to have it reviewed by their lawyers first. Depending on the doctor's return to work policy, you can't fire them as simply as said. Well you can and 99% of people will be fine with it, but there is the 1% that will haul a company over the coals for it.
Also, as for it being the insurer's problem not the companies... Check what happens to the companies worker's comp rate the next year. It just delays the company paying the money.