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Are workers’ compensation laws keeping up with changing demographics?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Workers’ compensation and occupational health and safety are not keeping pace. In the US (source: US BLS Current Population Survey, quarterly, non-seasonally adjusted 2002 and 2022 extracted June 2022): The employed non-farm labour force age 65 and over has increased by 2.5 in (Q1 2002).

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Are Workers’ Compensation benefits protected against the rising cost of living?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The monthly workers’ compensation amount they receive may have sustained them initially but unless it is adjusted for the cost of living, permanently disabled workers will see the buying power of their workers’ compensation income decline with each passing year. per cent beginning on January 1. far short of the $121.90