The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) partners with the Ohio Labor-Management Cooperation Program (OLMCP) to help employers design programs that prevent workplace injuries for workers. The program also assists injured workers in safely returning to their jobs as soon as medically possible.
This partnership aids unions and companies in working together to overcome barriers when implementing BWC’s Drug-Free Workplace Program (DFWP) or transitional work programs. Developing these programs can help keep workers safe on their jobs while increasing productivity, decreasing workers’ compensation costs and improving labor-management relationships.
OLMCP is a network of neutral, not-for-profit statewide organizations. It strives to promote an understanding between labor and management groups. Each organization has a proven track record of helping labor and management find common interests and build solutions acceptable to everyone. OLMCP’s innovativeness and flexibility allow it to meet your organization’s demands.
Labor/management relationships
Organizations’ labor and management representatives meet with OLMCP representatives to identify and address difficulties that help create a win-win outcome and enhance a cooperative labor/management relationship.
BWC will pay for OLMCP’s services when state-fund employers use it to implement a DFWP or a transitional work program. In addition, OLMCP will work with state-fund and self-insuring companies to address other labor/ management issues that are outside the BWC- funded program. Companies directly negotiate these charges with OLMCP.
Before you contact BWC for these services, please have the following information:
• Identify the names and contact information for your company’s labor and management representatives who will be a part of the process;
• Identify the specific issues and/or BWC programs that you want discussed;
• Obtain a verbal commitment that both parties are agreeable to discuss the issues with OLMCP.
To learn more about the program
For additional information, call Kevin Quinn of BWC’s stakeholder relations department at (330) 430-1985, or by e-mail at kevin.quinn@bwc.state.oh.us.
