NFL Team Keeping Players from Workers’ Comp

March 16, 2023

NFLPA goes after Cincinnati Bengals

  • The National Football League Players Association has warned members that the Cincinnati Bengals are looking to alter workers’ compensation laws in Ohio.
  • The NFLPA told players that the Bengals are seeking to introduce legislation that would limit professional athletes who have been under contract for five or more years from obtaining permanent partial disability compensation.
  • The players’ union contends new legislation would require those athletes to pay for their own medical care at billed amounts instead of any reduced rates available under Ohio’s workers’ compensation laws.
  • The alert from the NFLPA appears to be preemptive ahead of any proposed legislation that will be filed during the current session of the Ohio General Assembly.
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Workers comp workers threaten to strike

  • Employees with the Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Brandon and Thompson may walk off the job as negotiations with their employer have stalled.
  • The 450 workers employed by WCB have been without a contract with the WCB for more than two years.
  • CUPE Local 1063, which represents WCB staff, calls that unacceptable and accused the WCB of dragging its feet.
  • The union said WCB staff will go on strike on March 21 unless the employer offers a fair deal to workers.
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Outcry for workers comp for stadium workers

  • FIFA, soccer’s governing body, received a letter with a million signatures demanding compensation for migrant workers at the Qatar World Cup ahead of its annual congress.
  • The governing body is meeting in Rwanda with human rights responsibilities at tournaments and potential compensation relating to the 2022 event on the agenda.
  • The Norwegian FA lodged an official request for FIFA to assess whether it has fulfilled its responsibility to remedy related to the 2022 World Cup.
  • Qatari organizers have admitted that as many as 500 workers died in building-site accidents across the country since 2014.
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 Turkel named Special Master of Sep 11th Victim Compensation Fund

  • Attorney General Merrick B. Garland has chosen Allison Turkel to head the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
  • Turkel, who has served in the Justice Department for over 14 years, most recently in the Office for Victims of Crime, assumed her new position on March 12, 2023.
  • She will be taking over from August Flentje, who was appointed as Special Master on an interim basis following the departure of former Special Master Rupa Bhattacharyya.
  • Over $11.1 billion in compensation has been awarded to more than 50,000 responders and survivors who have been harmed because of their exposure to 9/11 toxins.
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