Workers Comp Hub

"The workers compensation system is in a deeply troubled state, with enormous financial and social costs for America’s workers." via National Employment Law Project

Here's the latest workers' comp news from around the country, featuring a story on low-wage women's struggle against sexual harassment and violence in the workplace. via National Economic and Social Rights Initiative and National Council for Occupational Safety and Health

In our latest Workers Comp Hub newsletter, we report on the risks facing disaster cleanup workers, retaliation against immigrant workers, the Trump administration's cuts to health and safety, the New York Workers' Comp Board's threatened cuts, and great victories for Vermont dairy workers and Illinois temp workers. via National Economic and Social Rights Initiative & National Council for Occupational Safety and Health

via ProPublica and NPR

This summer's Workers Comp Hub newsletter features stories on how low-wage workers are organizing to transform a broken regulatory system that enables rampant retaliation, threats to workers' rights under Trump's aggressive anti-immigrant policies, worrisome delays by OSHA on several important health and safety rules, and state legislation on workers' comp and universal healthcare. via National Economic and Social Rights Initiative and National Council for Occupational Safety and Health

Check out the latest Workers Comp Hub newsletter for a feature story on how temporary work causes permanent harm, plus workers' comp updates on first responders, OSHA, Florida, and more. via National Economic and Social Rights Initiative and National Council for Occupational Safety and Health

It's been a long, long time, but we're greasing up the gears of this Facebook account again. Hello, world!

Great new piece by Celeste Monforton in the Pump Handle highlights the public health research and injured workers' stories underlying the workers' comp policy trends featured in NESRI's new fact sheet! http://scienceblogs.com//destructive-trends-in-workers-co/

http://www.nesri.org//national-trends-and-developments-in- The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) has published a new fact sheet on national legislative trends and development in workers' compensation. It identifies seven destructive trends that are undermining workers' human rights to health and work with dignity, putting up new barriers for injured and ill workers who are trying to get the care and income support they and their families need. We are excited to share this with you all and invite you to use it, post it and share it as you see fit. We would also love to hear whether you all are seeing these trends and developments in your respective states or if there are other issues that are coming to the top right now.

Check out the latest Workers' Comp Hub newsletter for stories on injured and ill workers' human rights.

Workers with the Workers' Center of CNY and Worker Justice Center of New York continue to draw attention to the dangerous, deadly New York dairy industry.

Thanks to the efforts of Workers' Center of CNY and Worker Justice Center of New York, OSHA will begin surprise inspections of New York dairy farms on July 1. Dairy workers are routinely injured and sometimes killed on the job, are often forced to live in completely inadequate housing, and have poor access to medical care and other vital services.