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Are workers’ compensation laws keeping up with changing demographics?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Workers’ compensation and occupational health and safety are not keeping pace. One key consequence of changing demographics in Canada, the US, and Australia is the increasing number of older workers in the overall population and the work force. average) and a quarter of females (25.7% in 2001 to 15% in 2021) in the last two decades.

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Are Workers’ Compensation benefits protected against the rising cost of living?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Over time, savings may be depleted, debts incurred, and their health and welfare diminished—furthering the burden of their original work-related injuries. A recent WCRI/IAIABC survey of Workers’ Compensation Laws (2016) recorded 27 US states with no cost-of-living escalator for permanent total disability cases.