Rhode Island
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of workers' compensation requirements in Rhode Island, including those related to workplace posters, covered employers and employees, compensable injuries, employer defenses to claims, medical and other benefits, medical marijuana, claims procedures, dispute resolution, and retaliation and discrimination protections.
Rhode Island employers with 15 to 50 employees, including independent contractors, seeking to educate employees about the availability of family military leave and demonstrate compliance with Rhode Island's Family Military Leave Act should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Rhode Island employers with more than 50 employees, including independent contractors, seeking to educate employees about the availability of family military leave and to demonstrate their compliance with Rhode Island's family military leave law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Rhode Island employers seeking to inform employees about the availability of flexible work schedules for part-time elected officials and to demonstrate compliance with Rhode Island law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Rhode Island employers with 50 or more employees seeking to inform employees about the availability of leave for those who have been the victim of a crime and to demonstrate compliance with Rhode Island's crime victims leave law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Rhode Island employers with 50 or more employees seeking to educate employees about the availability of school involvement leave and to demonstrate compliance with Rhode Island law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Rhode Island employers seeking to inform employees about the conditions under which they are entitled to access their personnel files and to demonstrate compliance with Rhode Island law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Rhode Island employers seeking to show their compliance with the Rhode Island law requiring that employers provide unpaid break time and reasonable locations for employees to express breast milk should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.