What happens if while you are open for business, one or more of your employees contracts COVID-19? What happens if one or more of your employees is exposed to another of your workers that had COVID-19? Is that a work-related illness covered by workers’ comp? Isn’t it a work-related illness? If it is, then the […]
Guess What? You Might Have to Pay for Your Employee’s Medical Marijuana…
Suppose your employee sustains an on-the-job injury. S/he should receive workers’ comp benefits, right? Would those benefits include medical marijuana prescriptions? Here we go again. We enter that conundrum that is getting increasingly familiar. Medical marijuana is legal in about 33 states. It remains illegal in roughly 17 states. Moreover, it remains illegal under federal […]
What (NOT) To Do When Your Employee Gets Injured on the Job…
Your employee incurs a slip-and-fall injury. What do you do? You might be thinking this is a trick question. Isn’t it what some would call a no-brainer? Give him/her a claim form, report the injury to your workers’ comp carrier and have the carrier-designated physician conduct a medical examination and see what’s to be done […]
The Concluding Piece on Wal-Mart’s Employment Law Capers
After 11 weeks of semi-intense focus on the world’s largest private employer, The Emplawyerologist is now wrapping up its series on Wal-Mart. Now, of course, we can still expect to hear more about Wal-Mart and its employment law woes in the news–unless of course, Wal-Mart does what we have been doing over here, by learning […]
Wal-Mart and Workers’ Compensation: Adding Insult to Injury?
Rare is the employee who wants to get injured on the job, or the employer who wants to deal with the fallout of such injuries–especially workers’ compensation coverage and claims. Of course employers have to provide workers’ compensation coverage. As part of the The Emplawyerologist’s mini-series on Wal-Mart’s employment law capers, this week we are […]