Buenas noticias para los trabajadores GIG
YO normalmente no publique nada que no esté directamente relacionado con la compensación de los trabajadores. Sin embargo, creo que este es un cambio importante en la política y es una buena noticia para las personas lesionadas, pero también es una buena noticia para algunas de las personas en
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In our practice, we are fortunate to represent a number of healthcare employees!
In our practice, we are fortunate to represent a number of healthcare employees. Nursing and other healthcare occupations can be very dangerous. I represented a number of people who work for the Oregon State psychiatric hospitals, and they routinely get attacked by their patients. There are other safety
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Legislation is being introduced to prohibit forced arbitration clauses!
While it is always uncertain what legislation can get passed (particularly when you have shared control with the Democrats in control of the house and the Republicans in control of the Senate), it is good to see that there is now some push being made to restore some worker
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This administration continues its relentless march toward repealing safeguards!
ON THE U.S. LABOR DEPARTMENT’S FALL REGULATORY AGENDA Following is a statement from Christine Owens, Executive Director, National Employment Law Project: Posted October 17, 2018 “[fusion_dropcap boxed="no" boxed_radius="" class="" id="" color=""]I[/fusion_dropcap]n the Fall Regulatory Agenda released by the U.S. Department of Labor today, the Trump administration
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Oregon’s Workers Compensation System Is Too Complex!
[fusion_dropcap boxed="no" boxed_radius="" class="" id="" color=""]O[/fusion_dropcap]regon’s workers compensation system is in many respects far too complex. If you are familiar, at all, with Rube Goldberg’s creations (and one of those would be the mouse trap game that many of us played while growing up), then you will understand
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This is a great victory for workers, and this sort of thing is why I do this work
[fusion_dropcap boxed="no" boxed_radius="" class="" id="" color=""]O[/fusion_dropcap]ne of the success stories for trial lawyers was getting acknowledgment of workers having two jobs and getting time loss paid based on both wages. This means that if you are injured doing a very low wage job, but you are unable to
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Restore Justice For Survivors
We do not have jury trials or pain and suffering damages in our workers compensation system. Some people who have workers compensation claims also have third party cases (i.e. cases against third parties that can be litigated in Circuit Court). Our Supreme Court recently reversed an old case and
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Letter to the Secretary of Labor From Congress
Regardless of how you plan to vote in the Presidential election this is an excellent letter to the Secretary of Labor from Congress people and Senators including Patty Murray from Washington, Ron Wyden from Oregon and Bernie Sanders from Vermont. It is a good read, and while it is
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