Wage theft a scourge for low-income workers!
Wage theft a scourge for low-income workers — It’s part of a national scourge known as wage theft. More than two-thirds of low-wage workers reported some type of pay-related law violation, according to a 2009 report by the National Employment Law Project, which interviewed 4,387 front-line workers in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. San [...]
Mileage rate increase
The mileage rate that workers comp claims administrators pay injured workers for travel related to medical treatment or evaluation of their injuries will increase from .51 per mile to .55 per mile for travel on or after July 1, 2011, regardless of the date of injury.
Extended TD Duration and Faster Retraining Benefits Bills Clear Committee
Workers’ Compensation News: Extended TD Duration and Faster Retraining Benefits Bills Clear Committee By Greg Jones, Western Bureau Chief Injured workers would get vocational retraining vouchers faster and be able to collect temporary disability benefits for a longer period of time under a pair of bills the California Senate Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations [...]
Bill Limiting UR to California Docs Moving Through Senate
Workers’ Compensation News: Bill Limiting UR to California Docs Moving Through Senate By Greg Jones, Western Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Utilization review of California injured workers by physicians with out-of-state licenses isn’t just a bad idea, it might be illegal, supporters of a bill that would require all utilization review doctors to have California [...]