Meatpacking Workers Get Priority for Vaccine Under CDC Guideline December 22, 2020 By Mike Dorning Meatpacking and poultry processing workers should be among front-line workers next in line for coronavirus vaccines under guidelines approved by...
California COVID Presumption Law Creates New Data Tracking Burdens October 8, 2020 By Jim Sams A California law enacted last month that eases the path to workers’ compensation benefits for employees who contract COVID-19 will...
Health Workers Dealing with Shock of Virus Fight, Uneasiness in Current Quiet June 17, 2020 By Jennifer Peltz Outside a back door to a hospital where the coronavirus hit like a hurricane, a half-dozen staffers gathered recently to...
More States Push COVID-19 Claims to Work Comp; Potential Cost Anyone’s Guess May 19, 2020 By Jim Sams Regulators and lawmakers in more states are demanding that workers who claim they were sickened by COVID-19 get a fair...
Viewpoint: To Restart Business, Protect Workers May 12, 2020 By Michael R. Bloomberg States that are reopening their economies even as cases of Covid-19 are still rising are threatening their own residents and...
Hundreds of Washington Health Care Workers Sickened by Coronavirus May 5, 2020 By Martha Bellisle SEATTLE — Hundreds of health care workers and dozens of first responders in Washington state have become sick with the...
Deaf Woman Sues Michigan Hospital For Not Providing Interpreter April 17, 2020 GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A deaf woman sued a Michigan hospital, alleging that it violated federal laws by failing to...
Coronavirus-Related Crimes Capitalize on Global Fear, Panic March 26, 2020 By Colleen Long, Michael Balsamo and Rodney Muhumuza WASHINGTON — Thieves steal surgical masks. A clinic sells fake COVID-19 tests. Hate groups encourage sick members to infect law...
Costs of Obesity in Workplace Highest for Government Workers February 14, 2020 Although obese employees incur higher direct and indirect costs, the extent of obesity-related costs tends to be lower in some...