Higher Learning at the University of Calgary

  • December 4, 2012
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bh IN BRIEF   Blount Canada, Guelph, ON, now employs almost 900 people manufacturing high quality chainsaw equipment for export worldwide.   Over the last 3 years, it has significantly reduced costs for STD, casual absence, and WSIB. External providers and its own managers together focused on overhauling its disability management policy and practices. Supervisors […]

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Turn Up Your Heart Drives Better Health at DaimlerChrysler

  • December 4, 2012
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bh IN BRIEF   Health claim cost is a major competitiveness issue among US automakers. In 2001, DaimlerChrysler Canada Inc. (DCCI), with the support of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW), launched a health strategy to address the impact of mostly preventable disease on their active and retired workforce…and their costs.   The first major program, […]

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Turning around short term disability costs

  • December 4, 2012
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  bh IN BRIEF   Blount Canada, Guelph, ON, now employs almost 900 people manufacturing high quality chainsaw equipment for export worldwide.   Over the last 3 years, it has significantly reduced costs for STD, casual absence, and WSIB. External providers and its own managers together focused on overhauling its disability management policy and practices. […]

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