Portable Benefits 'Picking Up Steam' in Workers' Comp

Portable benefits, a way to provide social safety-net protections such as disability insurance regardless of where an employee is working, were a topic of much discussion last year and are likely to remain so in 2018. “Discussion of portable benefits is picking up steam around the workers' compensation industry,” the International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions, or IAIABC, said in introducing a podcast from Executive Director Jennifer Wolf Horejsh in November. The nature of work and employment relationships are changing, as workers seek more fle...