FIT News | March 2010

Generations In The Workforce: Managing a Changing Workforce

Jane O' Connor, TJP Solutions

As we move into 2010, a new decade in the 21st century, it is important to remember key issues when addressing your workforce. We hope this information will provide some insight and offer resources to facilitate your operations.

Workforce

When thinking about your workforce, keep in mind that you often interact with many different facets. Of course there are the employees of your organization, however as a non-profit organization, you are also intricately involved with volunteers, donors and Board Members. Together these build the fabric of your organization and it is the diversity of those elements – all working together for a common cause – that make your organization so unique.

Approach this as a positive attribute of your organization and it can become a fundamental building block. This can provide reference when working with your boards, doing presentations or conducting fund raising.

Organizational Morale

Your employees, your volunteers, your donors and your Board Members are all a major resource. Organizational morale is a key factor during these tough economic times. Understand that personal motivators and drivers have a direct impact on their dedication to your organization.

Managing a Changing Workforce

We often hear the word diversity and it is used in different ways. When looking at your organization’s diversity, please remember this includes many different factors. There are generational issues, demographics, personal traits and technology that impact your organization.

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The ADA Link To Workers Compensation Claims

Barbi L. Feldman, Esq.
RossVecchio, P.A.

Watch out for violations of the American With Disabilities Act (ADA) when you have an injured employee. Too often Employers consider injuries to their employees in the vacuum of workers compensation and fail to consider other laws that may affect them. Two of the most important are the ADA and Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Granted, the FMLA does not apply to employers with less than 50 employees, but the ADA applies to all employers regardless of their size. Too often employers fail to consider their obligations under these two acts when dealing with an employee who was injured on the job and who is seeking protection under the workers compensation statutes. This failure opens them to significant liability for unintentional violations of the ADA and FMLA.

While the workers compensation laws were created to provide the employee medical care and wage loss as a result of an on the job injury, the ADA was created to ensure access to employment by those that are disabled and protect from discrimination by requiring employees to accommodate those with disabilities, regardless of whether the disability was personal in nature or caused by an on the job injury.