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Workers’ Compensation: What’s payroll got to do with it?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

.); "total amount paid to employees over a period," hence, via records-keeping, "list of employees receiving pay." [ See [link] ] Today, the word “payroll” more often than not refers to the department or system that manage employer costs for a range of employee compensation components.

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Is workers’ compensation spending on healthcare significant? Would a "single-payer" system make a difference?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Private funding includes out-of-pocket healthcare spending by individuals on medical supplies and services, co-pays or deductibles. The situation may be more complicated in states with employer “deductibles” or other arrangements. See the G overnment Employees Compensation Act ]. see, [link] ].

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Are wages or salary fully covered by workers’ compensation insurance?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The formula for calculating net or spendable earnings may vary but is generally considered as Gross earnings less income taxes (state/federal/provincial) and other mandatory deductions. The National Commission on State Workmen’s Compensation Laws (1972) recommended a compensation rate moving to at least 80% of spendable earning s.