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Britain is no longer a nation of shopkeepers, but it is divided by the work we do

Workplace Insight

Other popular occupations here (at double the UK average) include biological scientists, computer system and equipment installers and servicers, medical secretaries, and train and tram drivers. including animal welfare officers, zookeepers and vet assistants). times the UK average. times the UK average).

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Are workers’ compensation laws keeping up with changing demographics?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

For more than twenty years I have been speaking about demographic change to workers’ compensation insurers in the hopes of spurring policy changes in advance of an aging workforce and greater numbers of older workers in the workplace. Workers’ compensation and occupational health and safety are not keeping pace.

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Workers with permanent disabilities often don’t have those options. The monthly workers’ compensation amount they receive may have sustained them initially but unless it is adjusted for the cost of living, permanently disabled workers will see the buying power of their workers’ compensation income decline with each passing year.