Non-wage amenities—such as workplace safety, having meaningful work, and working in a supportive environment—influence labor market dynamics significantly, shaping job preferences and wage structures.
Feds working in high-risk, citizen-facing jobs who contract COVID-19 are facing a lower bar for workers’ comp approval, thanks to recent changes made by the Department of Labor to the claims process - ...
A former police officer’s attempt to reinstate workers’ compensation benefits following a COVID-19 diagnosis was denied by the Commonwealth Court, affirming prior rulings by a workers’ compensation ...
Stage Stores Inc. will temporarily close all 738 of its stores beginning Monday night, furloughing most of its workers and cutting its executive leadership’s pay. The off-price department store had ...
Supermarket workers hold placards in protest in front of a Food 4 Less supermarket in Long Beach, California. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) A new survey examines the experiences of frontline ...
Colorado's second-highest court has ruled for the first time that COVID-19 is an "occupational disease" that entitled the widow of a deceased nursing home employee to workers' compensation benefits.
In the five years since the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been an increasing sense by many that the U.S. federal government, state governments, and private institutions overreached when they used their ...
The main issue in this appeal was whether a teacher was an essential employee who was entitled to a rebuttable presumption that getting COVID-19 was work-related and compensable under workers’ ...
OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Only one out of every 21 California workers’ compensation COVID-19 claims from accident years (AY) 2020-2022 involved medical treatment beyond 90 days from the injury ...