Disability Employment Australia Employee Assistance Program Benefiting from the collective membership

Disability Employment Australia

Employee Assistance Program

Benefiting from the collective membership

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A Partnership – DEA & DWW

DWW – strong client base in NFP sector

Community Solutions, HWNS, Breakthru, LWB, Focus, Improvement Foundation,

Benevolent Society

Relationships

DWW focus on building relationships and delivering ‘value’ through both

dedicated program management & exceptional service delivery

DWW approached DEA with proposal

Model based on previous success implementing programs where high proportion

of member organisations have low employee base.



Benefits of an Employee Assistance Program

Cost of Stress – separate slide

• Presenteeism & Absenteeism

Return On Investment

• Reduced absenteeism | Improved retention | Risk management | Less workers

compensation claims

Message that employees are valued strengthens culture

Affordability

• Cost prohibitive for small number of employees

• Economies of scale pool employees across businesses to achieve affordability

• Fees



Cost of Stress

Stress related presenteeism

Stress related absenteeism

Total cost to economy

Total Cost $9.69b $5.12b $ 14.81b

Direct cost to employers $6.63b $3.48b $10.11b

Labour productivity loss 0.89% 0.47% 1.36%

Days lost per worker per year 2.1 1.1 3.2



For DEA & Member organisations

• DEA employees, board members, employees of member organisations & immediate

family members access 24 / 7 to EAP at no cost

For DEA

• DWW agrees to sponsorship of Annual Conference

• DEA to accumulate ‘Credits’ (in the form of a Bank of Hours)

• Formula for ‘credits’ not yet determined – based on the number of organisations,

number of employees & total spend

• DEA to assign ‘Credits’ to member organisations to be used for On-site service

delivery / Training

Benefits to DEA and its Member organisations



Program Management services

• Access 24 / 7

• Online portal – email connect

• Promotion – information sessions and print collateral

• Reporting – aggregated and de-identified (each organisation & collectively)

Clinical & Organisational Psychology services

• Counselling

Presentations Personal issues 2/3 & Work issues1/3

• ManagerSupport

Interpersonal conflict | Stress & Work-Life balance | Performance issues | Time

Management | Mental Illness Awareness & Education

The EAP



Fees (indicative only at this stage)

Minimum of 500 employees required to start DEA program

• We are hopeful there will be a lot more

$ per employee determined by total employee pool

$ per organisation determined by number of employees

• Min. fee $990 p/a for 0-30 employees

$ per employee decreases by 5% as total employee pool increases by 500

• If pool 500, organisation with 100 employees annual fee = $3,500

(however, if pool 1500, then $3,159)

• If pool 1000, organisation with 500 employees annual fee = $16,625

(however, if pool 2500, then $15,004)



Fees (indicative only at this stage)

Employee Pool

$ per employee

approx 30 50 100 200 300 400 500 600 700

500 35.00$ 990$ 1,750$ 3,500$ 7,000$ 10,500$

1000 33.25$ 990$ 1,663$ 3,325$ 6,650$ 9,975$ 13,300$ 16,625$

1500 31.59$ 990$ 1,579$ 3,159$ 6,318$ 9,476$ 12,635$ 15,794$ 18,953$ 22,111$

2000 30.01$ 990$ 1,500$ 3,001$ 6,002$ 9,002$ 12,003$ 15,004$ 18,005$ 21,006$

2500 28.51$ 990$ 1,425$ 2,851$ 5,702$ 8,552$ 11,403$ 14,254$ 17,105$ 19,955$

3000 27.08$ 990$ 1,354$ 2,708$ 5,416$ 8,125$ 10,833$ 13,541$ 16,249$ 18,958$

Disability Employment Australia

Employee numbers per member organisation x $ per annum



How It Will Work

MOU with DEA

• ‘Gatekeeper’

• No financial commitment

Service Level Agreement with each business

Annual fee covers

• Program Management services – Program Manager, Access, Promotion, Reporting

• COP services – Counselling & ManagerSupport sessions

On-site services are extra

• If project successful then ‘credits’ could well cover these costs



Moving Forward – Timeline

30 November

Member organisations to submit EOI to DEA and forward to DWW

31 December

DWW to submit Proposal, Fee and SLA to each member organisation

31 January ( mid February)

Service Level Agreements signed

Commence ….?

Post commencement

Pro-rata so all organisations come in line for renewal at start of Year 2

Documents

Disability Employment Australia Employee Assistance Program Benefiting from the collective membership