WORKER'S COMPENSATION EDUCATION

摘要

In doing research for this piece and being conscious of the workers' compensation is not nearly as sexy as that new marketing plan you were thinking about buying, I wanted to touch on one of those real world (and decidedly un-sexy) realities that any shop owner in the United States must face and manage if he or she wants to be successful and thrive. Workers' compensation is a form of insurance. It provides wages and medical benefits to employees injured on the job. In most cases, it comes in exchange for the employee's right to sue an employer for negligence. This trade off between assured, limited coverage and lack of recourse outside the workers' compensation system is known as "the compensation bargain." Damages, both general and punitive for things like negligence, generally are not available in workers' compensation plans.