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Constitutional Issue with Florida Workers’ Compensation Statute

  • 03/13/17
  • John Gerboth
Tallahassee, FL (WorkersCompensation.com) - Traditionally, Constitutional issues are not implicated in workers’ compensation law. The Constitution neither guarantees anyone the right to be compensated for a workplace injury, nor requires employers to provide benefits to injured workers. However, in the 1967 Supreme Court case of United Mine Workers of America, District 12 v. Illinois State Bar Association, the Court found that the First Amendment guaranteed a union “the right to ...

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