I do have to say that I love the wide-eyed, "Why, no, no company would ever mistreat an employee because they are all competing to get good workers to stay with them."
Opting out: Inside corporate America’s push to ditch workers’ comp
One Texas lawyer is helping companies opt out of workers’ compensation and write their own rules. What does it mean for injured workers?
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That's seriously depressing. I've been rereading Dickens and that hell is where we're headed, gleefully led by libertarians and the GOP (for slightly different reasons).
+Karin Curran Ah, the Gilded Age …
Which may shift the entire discussion to the courts. New classes of ambulance chasing attorneys, not fighting the workers comp, just offering to sue the employers for negligence art every turn…that's sure better.
+Greg Stockton Except for all the arbitration agreements that are going hand-in-hand with these opt-out plans which (as discussed in the article) forestall any law suits.