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OR WCD Says Economic Downturn Requires Additional Expenditure Reductions
24 May, 2010 WorkersCompensation.com
To address this situation, the WCD must make additional expenditure reductions. In late April, the administrator for the WCD notified 13 Workers' Compensation Division employees that they will be laid off. The layoffs are primarily in areas where workload has decreased or where we have identified opportunities for streamlining including investigations and sanctions, operations and records, and compliance.
The division is also evaluating the feasibility of further reductions that will have an impact on customers in the workers' compensation system. These include:
• Outsourcing to the private sector the scheduling of compelled medical examinations, such as medical arbiter
examinations, for injured workers.
• Eliminating the department's facilitation of 90-day conferences when a worker is not yet in a vocational
assistance plan.
In addition to staff reductions, the WCD is delaying some resource-heavy technology projects such as electronic reporting of claims.
Oregon's workers' compensation system is extremely successful and often looked at as a model by other
states. Although this economy is presenting challenges, the WCD is committed to maintaining critical programs that Oregon's workers and employers depend on.
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