Last week's catastrophic Chicago airport disaster (the one where I was trapped with a Kazillion other travelers after some mentally impaired moron with a severe case of cranial rectal inversion torched the Chicago Air Traffic Control Center because he was depressed they were making him move to Hawaii and causing Tin Pushers to scamper for…
Is Your Workplace Ready for Ebola?
It officially hit our shores last week; the first Ebola patient, a man just back from Africa, was admitted to a Dallas hospital. This was different than the few Ebola cases treated prior in the country. Those arrived on humanitarian flights in specially equipped aircraft with exceptionally trained crews. Medical professionals knew they were coming…
Current and Former SAIF CEO's Apparently Want Out
There was some activity involving current and former SAIF CEO’s this past week. It seems two of them, John Gilkey and Brenda Rocklin, want out of their current situation. Yesterday Interim CEO John Gilkey sent an email to SAIF employees informing them he plans to retire once the new SAIF Board has secured a replacement.…
IAIABC: Making Return to Work Easy Peasy Committee Style
The Disability Management and Return to Work Committee met yesterday at the IAIABC 100th Annual Conference in Austin, TX. As regular readers will know, this committee has been working to develop a policy paper on Return to Work to better foster a consistent RTW process across all jurisdictions. I must say we are moving at…