Non-wage amenities—such as workplace safety, having meaningful work, and working in a supportive environment—influence labor market dynamics significantly, shaping job preferences and wage structures.

A former police officer’s attempt to reinstate workers’ compensation benefits following a COVID-19 diagnosis was denied by the Commonwealth Court, affirming prior rulings by a workers’ compensation ...

Feds working in high-risk, citizen-facing jobs who contract COVID-19 are facing a lower bar for workers’ comp approval, thanks to recent changes made by the Department of Labor to the claims process - ...

In the five years since the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been an increasing sense by many that the U.S. federal government, state governments, and private institutions overreached when they used their ...

Stage Stores Inc. will temporarily close all 738 of its stores beginning Monday night, furloughing most of its workers and cutting its executive leadership’s pay. The off-price department store had ...

Supermarket workers hold placards in protest in front of a Food 4 Less supermarket in Long Beach, California. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) A new survey examines the experiences of frontline ...

Colorado's second-highest court has ruled for the first time that COVID-19 is an "occupational disease" that entitled the widow of a deceased nursing home employee to workers' compensation benefits.

The main issue in this appeal was whether a teacher was an essential employee who was entitled to a rebuttable presumption that getting COVID-19 was work-related and compensable under workers’ ...

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Only one out of every 21 California workers’ compensation COVID-19 claims from accident years (AY) 2020-2022 involved medical treatment beyond 90 days from the injury ...

A Cedar Rapids city employee is seeking workers’ compensation benefits for injuries he attributes to the city’s repeated promotion of the COVID-19 vaccine. State and court records indicate that in ...

OCEAN TOWNSHIP -- In 2021, an Italian language teacher at Township of Ocean Intermediate School contracted COVID-19 and died months after her school reopened to in-person learning. Denise Amato was 43 ...