Days lost due to absences have been steadily on the rise for many years, along with the associated costs. Disabilities relating to mental health, chronic pain and complex multi-diagnosis claims can be challenging to manage, especially in light of privacy legislation. Most employers would like to provide much needed assistance to their employees when they fall ill, while balancing the need to maintain productivity in the workplace and contain costs. As a result, many employers across Canada are taking a more strategic approach to absence management and are looking for partners to help them achieve their goals.

Banyan can help.

We offer innovative solutions based on our proactive, holistic approach to disability management. Our philosophies relating to employee health and return-to-work are aligned with our service delivery in practical ways.

For example, our core beliefs that work is a healthy part of a balanced, healthy lifestyle and that employees who are at work will recover from an illness faster than those who are at home, are consistent elements of our program.

In working with our employer clients on their non-work related disability plans, we spend time listening – to front line managers, the employee and treatment providers – to help employees stay at work, or return him or her to work at the earliest possible time. Ours is not simply a paper-based approach, but a personal approach in which, through collaboration, key people are involved in creating a win-win solution.

By staying focused on returning employees to health and productivity, we’re also focused on containing disability costs. Banyan. Solutions that make business sense for employers.