Facing Workers Compensation Challenges During the Pandemic: NCCI June 9, 2020 By Bill Donnell The COVID-19 pandemic has upended lives, families, business routines, and the economy. Today, despite an uptick in May, 21 million...
Amazon Sued Over Warehouses After N.Y. Worker Brings Coronavirus Home June 4, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel Amazon.com Inc has been sued for allegedly fostering the spread of the coronavirus by mandating unsafe working conditions, causing at...
Farm Workers Getting Sick, Spreading Coronavirus As Peak Produce Season Begins May 29, 2020 By Mike Dorning and Jen Skerritt All of the roughly 200 employees on a produce farm in Tennessee tested positive for Covid-19 this month. In New...
Tyson Foods to Close Iowa Meat Plant as More Workers Catch COVID-19 May 28, 2020 By Tom Polansek Tyson Foods Inc. said on Thursday it will temporarily close an Iowa pork plant due to the coronavirus pandemic, a...
Workers’ Lawsuit Against McDonald’s Seeks Safety Measures, Not Damages May 26, 2020 By Tom Hals As U.S. businesses reopen, worried workers and their advocates are borrowing a legal strategy commonly used to shut down rowdy...
Workers Worry Over Enforcement of Meatpacking Plant Safety Recommendations May 22, 2020 By Amy Forliti Federal recommendations meant to keep meatpacking workers safe as they return to plants that were shuttered by the coronavirus have...
OSHA Vows More Work Safety Inspections for Coronavirus as Businesses Reopen May 21, 2020 By Tom Hals The U.S. Labor Department will expand inspections of businesses to reduce job-site hazards related to the new coronavirus as employees...
North Carolina Revises Workers’ Comp Premium Rules Related to COVID-19 May 20, 2020 Two new rule revisions to the North Carolina Basic Manual for Workers Compensation and Employers Liability (NC Basic Manual) related...
McDonald’s Faces Class Action From Workers Over COVID-19 Safety May 20, 2020 By Tom Hals Five McDonald’s workers in Chicago filed a class action lawsuit against the chain on Tuesday, accusing it of failing to...
Work From Home Is Fine . . . For Now: Opinion May 20, 2020 By Conor Sen, Bloomberg Opinion There are reasons to be optimistic about corporate America getting more comfortable with work-from-home arrangements brought on by the coronavirus...