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Return to Work

When employees experience illness or injury, it often impacts their ability to perform their jobs. In cases where an employee is out of work due to illness or injury, it's in everyone's best interest to return him or her to work in some capacity as soon as he or she is able.

Through strong return-to-work efforts and programs, an agency can:

Examples of effective return-to-work strategies include offering the opportunity to work part time, offering work from alternative locations, modifying work duties, modifying schedules, practicing early intervention, and using other forms of accommodations to provide employees with the tools and resources they need to carry out their responsibilities.

The Department of Labor has a number of useful Web sites with information about return-to-work strategies and programs.

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