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If you are an employer, you have a positive duty to protect workers from harm.  Industry-specific guidelines on how to do that in the COVID-19 environment are now published by occupational safety and health organizations […]

If you are an employer, you have a positive duty to protect workers from harm.  Industry-specific guidelines on how to do that in the COVID-19 environment are now published by occupational safety and health organizations […]

Workers contracting the COVID-19 virus in the course of their employment are claiming workers’ compensation.  Just how many workers’ compensation claims for work-related coronavirus disability have been filed to date is not reported in most […]

Supplemental background for students of DMCCJ – Workers’ Compensation and Return to Work and DMCCL- Insurance and Other Benefits – Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences]   Workers’ compensation insurers and legislators are taking […]

Regardless of the workers’ compensation model (private insurance, competitive state fund, exclusive state fund), every insurer has to prepare for the unexpected. Afterall, insurance is the transfers the financial risk of rare but costly events […]

“Payroll” used to have a simple meaning.  According to the Online Etymology Dictionary: payroll (n.)1740, from pay (v.) + roll (n.); “total amount paid to employees over a period,” hence, via records-keeping, “list of employees receiving pay.” [ See https://www.etymonline.com/word/payroll ]   […]