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This Veterans Day, NOD has released an important new guide, the Employers Guide to Welcoming and Supporting Wounded Warriors, that complements our other offerings, with leading employment practices and actionable tips for not only recruiting and on-boarding veterans, but also supporting and retaining veterans within a company's workforce to avoid high turnover rates.
"It's a fairly cutting edge thing to do," said Todd A. Solomon, a partner in the employee benefits department of McDermott Will & Emery, a law firm in Chicago, and author of "Domestic Partner Benefits: An Employer's Guide".
"Many employers will let you add your partner if it's a new partnership, and they may let you do it midyear," said Todd Solomon, partner in the employee benefits practice group at McDermott Will & Emery and author of "Domestic Partner Benefits: An Employer's Guide".
So if a gay person's spouse recently died and the surviving spouse did not receive, say, pension payments that a surviving spouse typically receives, they may be entitled to that money, said Todd A. Solomon, partner in the employee benefits practice group at McDermott Will & Emery and author of "Domestic Partner Benefits: An Employer's Guide".
Gay couples will be entitled to survivor benefits from a federally recognized spouse's pension that is covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, the law governing many retirement plans, said Todd Solomon, partner in the employee benefits practice group at McDermott Will & Emery and author of "Domestic Partner Benefits: An Employer's Guide".
Most employers will guide you through their process, if you ask them.
A consultation group of employees, managers, workplace champions and employer representatives guided the intervention through a participatory approach [20].
This is because, in Belgium, there is no legislation forcing employers to guide RTW [ 39].
In addition, the information can inform occupational rehabilitation programmes, occupational health services, and employers and guide government policy for stomach cancer survivors.
