Legal Insurance Blog

Contracts have always been a part of the legal/social landscape. These are agreements that are entered into by parties with the understanding that all the clauses are to be adhered to and followed. Breach of contract can result in very messy problems that are time-consuming and full of stress. An employer certainly has no control over the type of legal agreements employees sign in their private lives. Unfortunately, the distraction that a contract dispute produces can carry over into the office hours where productive work is important. To avoid having employees spend time on outside problems when they should be working on company projects, an employer may want to consider a voluntary benefit that provides legal services.

The Review Is Important

Valuable employees often center their entire lives on their families. It is the reason for coming to work and striving so hard to get promotions and pay raises. Highly productive employees will openly confess that they do everything for the sake of their children and loved ones. It shouldn’t be a surprise when family problems become legal or administrative conundrums that an employee will forget all about corporate goals and objectives. If the family is in trouble, that important associate will literally drop everything he or she is doing to concentrate on matters of the hearth. Family disputes and emergencies are primary cause of presenteeism in the workplace. What is needed is a voluntary benefit that will allow for the kind of legal services necessary to resolve unexpected concerns.

Domestic Flash Points

Holiday absenteeism is something that human resources departments have come to expect. December is the time of year when people use up as much of their vacation time as possible, because “use it or lose it” vacation policies will not allow vacation days to carry over to the next year. This results in a few empty offices and cubicles during the week. Using the vacation time is legitimate absenteeism, but other reasons for absenteeism have to be controlled. The last thing a business needs is to have all of their important employees out of the office for extended periods at the end of the year.

The Year End Problems

Government agencies are meant to provide service to taxpayers. Within the mission statements and authorizing legislation of these departments are mandates to correct problems, and keep the paper flow moving. The primary difficulty that a person has with government agencies is the meandering red tape that these bureaucracies can create. Agencies sometimes generate a labyrinth of policies and procedures. All of these have to be followed carefully or else the individual seeking assistance either gets bogged down in the process or has to start all over again. Getting the right help from a government agency can be time-consuming. Minutes and even hours that ought to be spent concentrating on daily work might be used up in communicating with slow-moving bureaucracy. Rather than have employees distracted, human resources will consider means to remove the bureaucratic roadblocks and one such solution is a group legal plan that promotes legal services.

The Red Tape Madness

It is no exaggeration when it comes to legal matters that the devil is in the details. It is the small things such as a clause in a contract or an administrative procedure that was overlooked that causes some of the worst problems. An employee inexperienced in the nuances of the law can quickly be trapped in a maze of legal trivia. Things that may seem very insignificant to that person can stop the legal process in its tracks, requiring considerable time and effort to get started again. It is no wonder that many people during working hours are preoccupied with minor legal concerns which unexpectedly got out of control. A good employee paid benefit for legal services can take care of minor legal procedures as well as major issues.

A Few of the Small Things

Group legal plans can defuse a crisis

Human resources directors of any organization are keenly aware of the need to keep productivity at acceptable levels. Competition is fierce, and there is a need to have employees working as efficiently as possible throughout the working day. Hiring top-quality employees is part of maintaining heightened productivity but it takes more than just having smart warm bodies. Emergencies and domestic crisis can distract an employee working on a time sensitive project. It is critically important to have resources necessary to allow sudden problems to be routed to the attention of an outside professional, and thus permit the employee to continue concentrating on the work at hand. A group legal plan can provide expert help when a crisis arises.

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