workmen's compensation
noun
compensation for death, injury, or accident suffered by a workman in the course of his employment and paid to him or his dependents
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Workmen's Compensation
Workmen's CompensationA state insurance program that provides money for workers injured on the job and for the dependents of workers killed on the job.
workmen's compensation
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Workmen's Compensation
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The following year, Campbell unsuccessfully tried to allow police dispatchers to claim hypertension or heart disease as occupational diseases eligible for workmen’s compensation.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2022
“They wanted to keep them on the job until retirement to preclude the high cost of workmen’s compensation payouts and didn’t tell them.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2022
Workers who get sick on the job might not be able to sue their employers, but would have access to workmen’s compensation to cover lost wages and medical care, legal experts said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 15, 2020
This was the movement for compulsory health insurance, which overlapped with the public health movement, but was more in the spirit of some of the Progressive Era reforms that were successful, like workmen’s compensation.
From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2020
Supertax, death duties, and taxes on unearned increment do a little to diminish the wealth of the few: old age pensions, national insurance, and workmen's compensation do something towards mitigating the poverty of the poor.
From The History of the Fabian Society by Edward R. Pease
In 1972, President Richard Nixon’s National Commission on State Workmen’s Compensation Laws declared that the states’ programs were, “in general, inadequate and inequitable.”
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2015
Last month, in a landmark ruling affecting a teacher, a California Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board decided that Larosa had "sustained injury arising out of his employment."
From Time Magazine Archive
When Franklin Roosevelt introduced him at Denton, Md. last week as the "father" of Social Security, Workmen's Compensation and Parcel Post, the President barely sketched his works.
From Time Magazine Archive
At first the injury claim filed with the Ohio Bureau of Workmen's Compensation by Irving Zilbert seemed routine.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is still enough English common-sense left among us to muddle through most things, but the Workmen’s Compensation Act, as interpreted in the Court of Appeal, has tried it fairly high.
From The Law and the Poor by Edward Abbott Parry
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