The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 22, 2024

While an important minatory of states permit reopening for changed condition at any time, most limit the reopening period in some way [see Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , § 131.02]. Background Walker injured her ankle on June 24, 2019, while working for the Department. The full Commission affirmed, and Walker appealed.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 11, 2020

percent as of 2019. Most restaurant workers don’t believe that the job can become their career. Managers must carefully consider how to hire the right worker. If a restaurant sees many workers are being lethargic, managers can opt for behavioral-based questions into the interview rounds. compared to a 42.4% on the job.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JUNE 30, 2024

The Atlanta Constitution said the commission concluded the judge was "a lying, impetuous bully who was not good at her job." It characterized the commission's conclusions as the judge being "utterly denounced." See Conferences and Consequences (November 2019). Acting on the recommendations of the Qualifications Commission.

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The Workcomp Writer

JUNE 30, 2023

Background In 2019, Fairfax County accepted a shoulder injury claim filed by Halisky, a firefighter and EMT. The Commission awarded Halisky temporary total disability benefits, as well as medical benefits. Fairfax County sought review with the Commission, which affirmed. Compensable Consequence?

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The Workcomp Writer

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Quoting Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , the appellate court reasoned that loss of employment should not be deemed due to disability if a worker without the disability would lose employment or suffer a reduction in earnings under the same economic conditions. Commission Reverses Deputy Commissioner in Part. Blot , 2022 Va.

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The Workcomp Writer

JULY 7, 2023

Her workers’ compensation claim was allowed for various shoulder injuries. Stone became certified as a phlebotomy technician in California on March 9, 2019. In June 2019, Stone sought TTD compensation beginning October 27, 2018, and continuing until she was medically able to return to work. TTD Benefits?

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Workers' Compensation

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

REPEAT VIOLATIONS Three repeat violations involved: chemical container labels that were not updated and, therefore, workers were not made aware of the names of new chemicals; eyewash stations that were not properly maintained and medical evaluations that were not conducted for workers before respirator use. ORDER NOW. *

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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 11, 2024

In 2018 Forum Recap and Professionalism (April 2018) ; 2015 Frierson-Colling Professionalism Award (2015), I had the chance to discuss professionalism and The Florida Bar Workers' Compensation Section's efforts to recognize it in their members. Myers who was a legend in Florida workers' compensation before my time. Not so much.

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 10, 2023

As I have noted early each January for many, many years now, prior to the death of my mentor and friend, Dr. Arthur Larson, the original author of the oft-cited Larson treatises in workers’ compensation law (and in employment discrimination law, as well), Arthur and I began a quirky—though humorous—New Year’s tradition.

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Global People Strategist

JULY 26, 2023

The minimum wage is any amount the government allows as a minimum rate that employees must pay their workers at an average amount of hours. Here is a brief timeline; 1. 2019 National Minimum Wage In 2019, the national minimum wage was set at 20 South African rands (ZAR) for each hour of work provided by the employee.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JUNE 23, 2024

So did Conferences and Consequences (November 2019). The Commission concluded its efforts with findings of "systemic incompetence" "abuse" "inappropriate" and "failure to perform." The Commission recommended that she be removed from the bench. Both the Commission report and Losing an election are undoubtedly stressful.

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Florida Workers' Comp

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Workers' compensation as a community is ever-changing. As an office, the OJCC was then beginning a new iteration of itself, a growth from its days in Commerce, Labor and Employment Security, and a deeper history of conjunctive co-existence in the old Commissions. Judge Cohen was followed in September 2019 by Judge John MacIver.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 23, 2022

Periodically an interesting analysis in workers' compensation leads to discussion of death benefits. Prior discussions of death benefits in this blog have included Marriage, the Law and Workers' Compensation (November 2014), Ideological Shift (June 2015), and Reminded about Death Benefits (February 2019). Christopher R.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 21, 2019

The List: Best Companies for Dads 2019. The HR Digest has released a list of Best Companies for Dads 2019 , based on parenting benefits. The society is increasingly acknowledging that fathers struggle with the conflicts of work and family far more than their co-workers who are moms.

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Florida Workers' Comp

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This annual tradition has come to have special meaning for the workers' compensation attorney community because of the College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers (CWCL). He is also co-host of the industry-favorite Workers' Compensation Hot Seat webinar series, and has threatened to launch a podcast to supplement his award-winning blogs.

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The Workcomp Writer

MAY 21, 2023

Background In April 2019, McDonald died in a work-related ditch collapse. Carpenter, the mother of McDonald’s two minor children, applied to the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation for death benefits on behalf of the children and herself. The commission also stated that case law had not extended the language of R.C. Code § 4123.59(D).

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The Workcomp Writer

JUNE 11, 2024

The Appellate Court of Maryland recently held that a financial advisor’s pneumonitis allegedly caused by mold exposure in his office did not qualify as a compensable “occupational disease” under the state’s workers’ compensation law [ In re Morgan Stanley & Co. The Commission found Gundlach had not sustained an accidental injury.

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Florida Workers' Comp

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The chair of a county commission there is making news related, at least in part, with the reasonably recent closure of her law practice. Vacations are a critical element of our working lives, though I learned that late in life (in 2019 I took my first two week vacation since college). And, it rings true.

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Commission ultimately determined that the claim—filed December 5, 2019—was barred by the one-year statute of limitations found in Ohio Rev. The deceased employee’s girlfriend (“the appellant”), via a C-5 application filed December 5, 2019, sought death benefits on behalf of the employee’s four surviving children. 4123.28.

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Florida Workers' Comp

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

See Judicial Behavior and Ex Parte Communication (October 2015); What is Ex Parte (January 2018); and Ex Parte Yet Again (September 2019). Of note, the Arizona Commission in this instance did not conclude there was sufficient proof of ex parte communication, but it was merely alleged. Some of the derogations were allegedly "printed.

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The Workcomp Writer

AUGUST 9, 2022

An Ohio appellate court disagreed with the trial court’s conclusion that a social worker was a fixed situs employee whose injuries sustained when he slipped and fell in a restaurant parking lot were not compensable under Ohio’s coming and going rule. The social worker was not attending a business meeting. OhioHealth Corp. Background.

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15Five

AUGUST 2, 2019

2019 Best Workplaces list. (Ok, More than software, this continuous performance management platform practices “Best-Self Management” by supporting people in becoming their best selves—not just the best workers. Find the full 2019 Best Workplaces list here ! ?This Studio and commissioned by 15Five. Magazine’s.

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Workplace Insight

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The report – Working for the Future – is published alongside the launch of a new Commission on the Future of Employment Support that aims to work over the next eighteen months to gather evidence and develop proposals for far-reaching reform. Only Latvia and Switzerland have fared worse and both are improving fast.

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The Workcomp Writer

APRIL 11, 2023

The Court remanded the case back to the Commission for an appropriate determination as to whether the couple’s separation resulted in spousal desertion within the meaning of Iowa Code section 85.42(1)(a) The workers’ compensation commissioner agreed. 1)(a) (2017). The court of appeals affirmed the district court.

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Business Management Daily

JANUARY 21, 2020

Ronald told co-workers that May would be fired for reporting him. USPS , ND CA, 2019). But that can be a painful choice if the employee is hard to replace or is otherwise a good worker. Amanda worked for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, determining client eligibility for Medicaid programs. Zar, et al.,

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Amazon was fined by French regulator CNIL (Commission Nationale Informatique & Libertés) which is a data protection agency that oversees information technology services within the region. Amazon employee monitoring systems have often been criticized for being too over-the-top in its pursuit for efficiency and this case is no different.

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Global People Strategist

JANUARY 21, 2023

Knowing workers’ rights, the correct type of contract for your work relationship, and when a company can lawfully end an employee’s job are all essential steps to protecting yourself in this ever-changing legal landscape. There’s also a ‘sickness allowance,’ amounting to 120 days per worker each year.

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The Workcomp Writer

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The court acknowledged that had the alleged injury been witnessed by a representative of the employer, the result might have been different, the court stressed that the former employee had come forward with no evidence that the employer knew of the alleged work-relatedness of the injury or that he would eventually file a workers’ compensation claim.

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cipHR

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In April 2019, around a quarter of organisations filed their data in the final 36 hours before the submission deadline. . The most recent data currently available is for 2020-21, when the average gender pay gap of all firms that reported their information was 10.4% – the same as in 2019-20. What data has to be submitted?

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The Workcomp Writer

JUNE 29, 2023

It is axiomatic in American jurisdictions that an employer and/or carrier is entitled to reimbursement for its workers’ compensation outlay, including medical expenses, if the injured employee recovers from a negligent third party [see Larson’s Workers’ Compensation Law , § 117.01 EME expense. 152, 168 So. 2d 735, 736 (Miss.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 12, 2023

The story began in 2019 when two judges rented bicycles at a resort in Michigan. But then there was a complaint to the Judicial Tenure Commission. Of perhaps more general judicial interest, see Conferences and Consequences (November 2019). Things devolved from discontent to disagreement, and words were said.

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Florida Workers' Comp

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This blog is about workers' compensation, certainly. However, it is often also about the law, in that vein drifting periodically from its workers' compensation roots somewhat. I have written about judges suspended after inebriated excursions, see Conferences and Consequences (November 2019).

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The Workcomp Writer

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The Commission ultimately determined that the claim—filed December 5, 2019—was barred by the one-year statute of limitations found in Ohio Rev. The deceased employee’s girlfriend (“the appellant”), via a C-5 application filed December 5, 2019, sought death benefits on behalf of the employee’s four surviving children. 4123.28.

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Florida Workers' Comp

JANUARY 4, 2022

In 2019, the Supreme Court became concerned with the volume of civil cases in Florida, and the processes by which they are governed. Notably, in the workers' compensation practice, communication among judges regarding such calendar conflicts is commonplace, but less so when the conflict is court-related. But, it worked.

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Global People Strategist

AUGUST 20, 2020

Back in 2019, the EU Parliament passed an EU Directive on work-life balance. In 2019, the Supreme Court issued guidelines to accommodate employees with disabilities. In November 2019, the Supreme Court passed a ruling that employees do not have the right to involve legal representation in internal workplace matters. Retirement.

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Florida Workers' Comp

DECEMBER 26, 2021

See Judicial Timekeeping (April 2021); The Code of Judicial Conduct and Scouting (March 2015); Why do we Recuse (December 2019); and Judicial Ethics and "The Great Pumpkin" (June 2017). This judge has been in office since 2019, as a probate judge. I have written about several judges over the years. 3) by displaying racist conduct."

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The Workcomp Writer

JANUARY 20, 2022

The simple rule in New York and many other states: when the hearing officer and the Board or Commission see things differently, the Board’s “vision” controls. Contrary to the holding of the law judge, the Board had credited medical evidence offered by the flight attendant over that offered by her employer. Background.

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