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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. Many workers’ compensation systems impose limits on benefits for older workers. average) and a quarter of females (25.7% The workforce participation rate of older Australians more than doubled (from 6.1%

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

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

Over time, savings may be depleted, debts incurred, and their health and welfare diminished—furthering the burden of their original work-related injuries. This policy, however, is far from universal among US workers’ compensation systems.