New initiative would also seek to reduce workplace injuries to decrease “the financial burden of injury on taxpayers.”
1/10/2020 The White House is calling on federal agencies to develop new strategies to reduce injuries in the federal workersfederal workplace and to help those who are hurt to get back to work more quickly, creating a new, governmentwide push to help accomplish the goal.
The Protecting Employees, Enabling Reemployment (PEER) Initiative will task each agency with developing specific strategies and goals to slash injuries on the job and time off of work due to injuries, Office of Management and Budget acting Director Russ Vought said in a memorandum dated Thursday. He noted that 107,000 federal employees filed new workers’ compensation claims in 2018 and received $3 billion in payments.
All agencies, including the U.S. Postal Service, will face a requirement to improve or maintain performance in a series of areas, including total injury and case rates, time lost due to injury and sickness, and filing claims in a timely manner. Agencies will have to increase the rate of employees who return to work within 45 days after traumatic injuries and ensure employees get back on the job more quickly in cases of “moderate-to-severe injury or illness.”
The initiative will “help relieve unnecessary suffering by workers and reduce the financial burden of injury on taxpayers,” Vought said.
Read full story and memo at Government Executive
This will screw the people that need as well as the assholes that abuse.
I agree that if misused. This could could be worse than 130000 hurt
workers that were just dumped. I know one of them, and he seemed to
be pretty pleased after the EEOC ruling. The changes at EEOC may not be as positive in the future. Like always your part of the problem, or the
solution. I wish i could say that those who have abused finally had a
change of heart, but time will tell. Things are changing and if USPS
fails the bad go with the good.
They have a point. When a postal “worker” hurts their arm picking up a bucket and is still on limited duty three years later something is wrong.
Das Fuhrer wants Federal employees back to work as soon as possible. just because he spends way too much time golfing doesn’t mean his employees shouldn’t be expected to work as much as possible! The money agencies save can be spent on the never ending wars and that precious wall. Our government has millions of tax dollars to waste, very little to spend.
I don’t know what part of trying to limit Federal workers pain, and
work loss is so wrong!. I believe most good workers use their income
to pay for their lives outside of work. I believe that the biggest savings
is from cutting your unneeded loss in the first place. Using government
personal carelessly in the service of US the Taxpayer is a total waste. I
believe that Rep. Matt Gaetz take on Congress being the ones accounting to the people is correct. If the Federal workers are treated with value instead of as inanimate objects the savings should be
greater than money.