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...number of companies assisting employees with volunteer efforts is growing about 25% a year, says Carol Sladek, work/life consultant with Hewitt Associates, a Lincolnshire, Ill., human-resources consulting firm. Nearly 75% of the employers in Hewitt's annual survey of the 100 best companies to work for provided time off for community service last year. And in 1999, 48% of employers included formal volunteer programs as part of their business plan, vs. just 19% in 1992, according to a survey of 248 companies conducted by the Points of Light Foundation. Nearly half of all employees in a variety of fields...
Kennedy's quest for employment will encompass the spectrum of issues surrounding chronically ill people in the workplace: the need for flexibility and special accommodations, the high hurdles of re-entry and the challenges that precarious health places on people with a passionate drive to perform but a body that can't always cope with the stress of job performance. According to a Johns Hopkins University study called "Partnership for Solutions: Better Lives for People with Chronic Illness," about 40% of the U.S. working-age population has some form of chronic condition, defined as any that persists for a year...
There are federal laws that can assist chronically ill individuals in the workplace: the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act. Under the ADA, employers may make a "reasonable accommodation" to a disabled worker as long as that person can perform the essential functions of the job. The FMLA gives employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave for personal health issues (or those of an immediate family member), with their position or the equivalent guaranteed upon return. But there are various stipulations for eligibility in both laws, and protection isn't guaranteed...
Chronically ill workers often need extra time to deal with their afflictions. And time constraints create the greatest tension between such workers and their employer. One of the fastest-growing ways to give people more autonomy in their schedules is by creating a "flexible workplace," according to Karol Rose of LifeCare.com a global provider of workplace-management services. A flexible workplace can range from a part-time arrangement (though this can have salary and benefit implications) to very specific accommodations agreed upon between the employer and an individual employee. Some employers favor what is known as flexplace, or working...
Employees who are out of the workplace for extended periods of time often are worried about job tenure, not to mention making ends meet. One practice that is proving to be a dramatic stress reducer for chronically ill employees is the "sick bank," where healthy employees can donate sick days to a colleague. Second-grade teacher Raquel Allen, 47, of Imperial Beach, Calif., is currently recovering from a double mastectomy. Even though her job with the school district entitles her to only 13 sick days a year, so far she has received 72 anonymously donated days that have allowed...