Labor Committee OKs Bills on COVID Workers' Comp Claims
Workers afflicted by the coronavirus could make compensation claims with the presumption that they were infected on the job under a wide-ranging bill advanced Thursday by the Labor and Public Employees Committee.
The labor committee passed two versions of the 52-page omnibus legislation, which included the workers’ compensation change — a rebuttable presumption the employee caught the virus at work — as well as other elements like increased burial benefits and the elimination of exemptions that shielded some businesses from offering paid sick time.
Sen. Julie Kushner, co-chairwoman of the panel, tried to frame the scope of the bill in terms of the historic and ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
“It’s not common to do this but we’re not living in common times,” she said. “We are living through — hopefully most of us are living through, many have died — a pandemic that we have never experienced in our lifetimes and the cost of that on workers… was enormous.”
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