What to Expect in Workers’ Compensation Costs From COVID-19: NCCI May 6, 2020 By Jim Sams If only 10 percent of health care workers contract COVID-19 and all of their claims are deemed compensable, workers’ compensation...
Analysts Tally Workers’ Comp Cost of Exposure to COVID-19 May 5, 2020 By Susanne Sclafane While the potential cost of relaxing a tenet of the workers’ compensation system to deal with extraordinary circumstances of COVID-19...
Back to Work: How Businesses Are Trying to Make Workers Feel Safe May 5, 2020 By Joyce M. Rosenberg Before the coronavirus outbreak, furniture deliveries at Sunnyland Outdoor Living meant two employees sitting side-by-side in a truck. Now, one...
Trump Administration Defends Workplace Safety Record During Coronavirus Crisis May 1, 2020 By Daniel Wiessner and Tom Hals U.S. Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia on Thursday defended his department’s handling of workplace safety during the coronavirus pandemic, saying “the...
Consumer Groups Oppose Immunity for Businesses From Coronavirus Lawsuits April 30, 2020 By Tom Hals and Alison Frankel U.S. consumer advocates are urging Congress to resist growing demands by companies for protections from coronavirus-related lawsuits as states start...
Recovered from COVID-19, Wary First Responders Back on Job April 29, 2020 By Stefanie Dazio, Jake Bleiberg and Michael R. Sisak The new coronavirus doesn’t care about a blue uniform or a shiny badge. Police, firefighters, paramedics and corrections officers are...
Amid Unemployment Surge, Millions of Remote and Essential Workers Plug Away April 29, 2020 By Howard Schneider Garbage haulers still collect trash. Cops are on the beat. Couriers deliver food and packages. Insurance agents work from home....
Unions Push Back on Trump Plan to Order Meat Processing Plants to Stay Open April 29, 2020 By Jeff Mason and Tom Polansek President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered meat-processing plants to stay open to protect the food supply in the United States,...
Suit Filed Against Smithfield Over Working Conditions at Missouri Plant April 27, 2020 A lawsuit filed on behalf of workers at a Smithfield Food plant in Missouri claims conditions at the plant are...
U.S. Issues New Coronavirus Safety Guidance for Meat, Poultry Plants April 27, 2020 By Jan Wolfe The U.S. Labor Department issued new guidelines on Sunday for U.S. meatpacking and meat-processing plants that have seen a rash...