Showing posts with label Government Shutdown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Government Shutdown. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Calling America: Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello?

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Today's post was shared by Steven Greenhouse and comes from www.nytimes.com SINGAPORE — HAVING lived and worked abroad for many ...
Friday, October 25, 2013

mHealth: A Potential Player for Workers' Compensation

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Delivery of workers' compensation medical care is one of the most costly items on the landscape  of the social, remedial program. A rec...
Thursday, October 24, 2013

CDC - NIOSH Science Blog – Conducting Responder Health Research and Biomonitoring During and Following Disasters

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Today's post was shared by Safe Healthy Workers and comes from blogs.cdc.gov When responding to a disaster , emergency workers ma...
Friday, October 18, 2013

The Many Ways the Government Shutdown Hurt Public Health and the Environment

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Today's post was shared by RWJF PublicHealth and comes from switchboard.nrdc.org After 16 long days, the government shutdown has...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013

What a Government Default Will Do To Workers' Compensation

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With only hours left , and the politicians in Washington DC still unsettled about how to resolve a US credit default , the focus turns t...
Sunday, October 13, 2013

Social Security raise to be among lowest in years

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Social Security payments are tightly kinked to workers' compensation disability payments. When there are increases in benefits, some ...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

The startling rise of disability in America

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The increase in disability claims in the US is reported in today's post shared from npr.org In the past three decades, the numb...
Friday, October 11, 2013

Safety Agency Cites Owners in Texas Plant in Explosion

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Todays's post shared from the NYTimes.com The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the owners of a fert...
Thursday, October 10, 2013

ABA president, others express concern over shutdown’s effects on judiciary

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Today's post was shared by Legal Newsline and comes from legalnewsline.com American Bar Association President James Silkena...

Government Shutdown: Day 10 - Safety Gets a Furlough

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The government shutdown is entering its 10 day and there are major concerns surfacing about the lack of safety enforcement in the workpla...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Government Shutdown: Day 9 - Government shutdown hitting veterans, military families hard

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Workers' Compensation systems are generally integrated with Federal benefit systems, either/or for medical treatment or indemnity payme...

Government Shutdown: Day 8 - Injured Workers Are Being Held for Ransom

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Now entering its 8th day , the Federal Government shutdown continues and injured workers and their families are suffering as hostages. Th...
Monday, October 7, 2013

Is Workers' Compensation Just a Promise That Can't Be Kept?

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Over a century ago, Labor and Industry made a promise to each other called Workers' Compensation . It was summary, remedial, inexpe...
Saturday, October 5, 2013

Now the Government Shutdown Is Stopping Blood Drives

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Today's post was shared by Mother Jones and comes from www.motherjones.com Here's how the government shutdown may liter...
Friday, October 4, 2013

Federal Shutdown: Is Workers' Compensation Ready for Tropical Storm Karen?

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With a Federal Government in a shutdown, will the State Workers' Compensation system be ready for a natural disaster? The public ann...