Early in April 2013, the Pennsylvania Insurance Department announced a reduction in the workers' compensation rate of 4.01 percent. The commissioner of the Pennsylvania Insurance Department stated that the department is very pleased with the rate reduction. This most...
Regular or permanent workers are less likely to suffer injury than temporary or migrant employees in the same industry. The director for the University of Pennsylvania's Transnational Law Center reported that these employees come to the company at a serious...
The Philadelphia City Council recently passed a bill that would mandate employers in the city to offer paid sick days to employees although it would exempt small businesses with fewer than six employees. However, the mayor refused to sign similar legislation in 2011,...
Twenty employees of an East Coast firm can sign up for nap time twice a week and enjoy rejuvenation in the company's "nap room." The idea came about because of studies that fatigue can lead to workplace injury. Furthermore, lack of rest can reduce workplace...
Forklifts are very useful machines in warehouses and other storage spaces. But driving them is dangerous. In Pennsylvania and across the county, forklift operators are no strangers to the need for workers' compensation after forklift accidents. Is there any way to...
In round numbers, fatal workplace accidents take the lives of about 4,000 Americans every year. That's 1,000 more people than died in the terrorist attacks on September, 2001. It's a lot of people's lives cut short - and a lot of families devastated. Neither workers'...
Employers are not supposed to retaliate against employees for filing workers' compensation claims or reporting workplace injuries. In Pennsylvania and across the country, however, workers naturally worry that employers will hold it against them for bringing a work...
By definition, combustible dust can explode. And when it happens in the workplace, it can cause severe injuries and even death. Death and serious injuries are precisely what happened five years ago at a sugar factory in Georgia. Fourteen workers were killed on the job...
The temptations for employers to cut corners on workplace safety are always there. They do not do as much as they should to create and maintain safe places to work. As a result, many employees get injured in work accidents that should have been prevented. Of course,...
The prevention of workplace fatalities is an activity whose importance speaks for itself. Every human life is precious, and it is an irretrievable loss when someone dies at work. Sometimes, when a workplace occurs, it is because the employee had a medical condition....