Workers’ comp claims in Virginia decrease
- Medical payments per workers’ compensation claim in Virginia at 12 months of maturity decreased by 5.6% between 2019 and 2020 and 7.9% between 2020 and 2021, according to a report by the WCRI.
- Between 2016 and 2021, Virginia indemnity payments per claim at 12 months’ maturity grew 2.7 percent per year.
- Virginia indemnity benefit payments per claim with more than seven days of lost time were higher than the median of the 17 study states.
- The average total payments per claim in Virginia captured at 12 months’ maturity decreased by 12% between 2016 and 2021.
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Minnesota signs labor bill into law
- A bill was passed into law in Minnesota that will invest $500 million in a fund to match federal investments in infrastructure and large-scale development projects.
- This bill also fundamentally changes several areas of Minnesota employment law, including instituting a ban on employer-employee noncompete agreements signed after July 1, 2023.
- The law also establishes new paid sick leave entitlements, providing employees with additional pregnancy and nursing accommodations, and adding new worker safety protections.
- Employers will be required to provide at least one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked, up to 48 hours per year.
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NLRB takes on college athletics, workers’ comp
- The National Labor Relations Board is looking into college athletics, as it’s scheduled to hear arguments on Nov. 7 from the NCAA, the Pac-12, and USC in regard to an unfair labor practice complaint filed by the National College Players Association
- The NCPA is attempting to have college football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball players qualified as employees, thus entitling them to all the rights that go with being a private-sector employee in the USA.
- “Coaches, athletic directors, and conference commissioners are making millions of dollars while NCAA sports denies athletes fair compensation, breaks minimum wage and overtime laws, and avoids workers’ compensation while hazardous workplace conditions remain unchecked,” said NCPA executive director Ramogi Huma.
- If the NLRB rules that student-athletes in the three specific sports are employees of a college, that shakeup up college athletics.
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Iowa has workers’ comp provision for teen workers
- Teenagers in Iowa can work longer hours and take jobs that were previously banned under a law signed Friday by Gov. Kim Reynolds.
- The law says that teens who are injured on the job can seek benefits under the state’s workers’ compensation program.
- The initial version did not include those protections for juveniles hurt while working.
- Under the law, restaurant employees as young as 16 may serve alcohol, with a parent’s written permission.
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