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temporary workers and their unique risks |
Shining a risk manager's analytical light on an evolving shadow industry
Karen C. Yotis, Esq., our Feature Resident Columnist, provides insights into workplace issues and the nuts and bolts of the workers' comp world.
 The temporary workforce is making a permanent impact especially when it comes to the way businesses manage their workers' compensation risk. This new breed for hire has taken the entire global employment market by storm. Let's face facts-companies remain gun shy about hiring back the full-time workforce that was replaced during the recession with automation and outsourcing, skyrocketing healthcare costs continue to remain a dangerous unknown, and office space is....read more. |
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the false picture of contingent and temporary workers in the american workplace |
Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., our Feature National Columnist, is a leading commentator and expert on the law of workers' compensation.
 According to a report released earlier this year, significant growth in the number of contingent or temporary workers within the American work force during the past several decades is itself a disruptive force that not only negatively impacts workplace safety and health, but also challenges existing structures of data collection, legal responsibility, and future planning for social safety net programs. The extensive report argues that...read more. |
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LARSON'S SPOTLIGHT ON RECENT CASES |
Thomas A. Robinson, J.D., our Feature National Columnist, is a leading commentator and expert on the law of workers' compensation.
Arizona: Liberal Construction of Comp Statutes Allows Court to Ignore Pain Requirement in Hernia Case. An appellate court affirmed a decision of the Industrial Commission awarding benefits for a hernia that was unaccompanied by pain in spite of a clear statutory requirement that...read more.
Mississippi: Driver's Failure to Wear Seatbelt and to Turn on Headlights Did Not Equate to Willful Intent to Injure Himself. In a split decision, an appellate court has affirmed a finding by the Workers' Compensation Commission that an employee's claim was not barred by the going and coming rule since..read more.
Ohio: Violation of Attendance Rule Amounts to Abandonment of Employment; No TTD Benefits. The Supreme Court of Ohio, affirming a decision of a lower appellate court, held that a claimant's termination from employment for violating the written attendance policy in her union contract was evidence of voluntary abandonment...read more.
Washington: Gasoline Provided for Company Van Not Part of Injured Employee's "Wages". The value of gasoline provided to an employee for the employee's use of a company van is not "fuel," as that term is used in Wash. Rev. Code § 51.08.178, since it is not critical to...read more. |
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Temporary Workers and Their Unique Risks
The Oregon Dept. of Consumer and Business Services (DCBS) has finally released the 2014 Oregon Workers' Compensation Premium Rate Ranking Summary. The study describes, for a comparable mix of industries, the relative cost of workers' compensation rates across the country including D.C. According to the DCBS, for 2014, the national median index rate declined to an all-time low of $1.85 per $100 of payroll, and index rates varied from a low of $0.88 in North Dakota to a high of $3.48 in California. The top 10 states with the highest rates in the nation are: (1) California; (2) Connecticut; (3) New Jersey; (4) New York; (5) Alaska; (6) Oklahoma; (7) Illinois; (8) Vermont; (9) Delaware; (10) Louisiana. 
