{"id":128323,"date":"2015-10-15T13:50:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T19:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/because-what-better-way-to-save-a-company-money-than-eviscerating-workmans-comp.html"},"modified":"2015-11-05T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T18:09:11","slug":"because-what-better-way-to-save-a-company-money-than-eviscerating-workmans-comp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/because-what-better-way-to-save-a-company-money-than-eviscerating-workmans-comp.html","title":{"rendered":"Because what better way to save a company money than eviscerating workman&#039;s comp?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do have to say that I love the wide-eyed, &quot;Why, no, no company would ever mistreat an employee because they are all competing to get good workers to stay with them.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/inside-corporate-americas-plan-to-ditch-workers-comp'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/KlctMr5ynNzgV34Mvgx3g2-xscTcB14G6EVT2oizAXswBTgzHc2Oea3BUp_jQAf0fuTihWBq1MnZfaACtSXTnyYjaa6Y-fFltX3qRQB5t3Hs_TRKbqb9jp3vv3uPdNMCjsnKACLcPKsZ=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/inside-corporate-americas-plan-to-ditch-workers-comp'>Opting out: Inside corporate America&rsquo;s push to ditch workers&rsquo; comp<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nOne Texas lawyer is helping companies opt out of workers&rsquo; compensation and write their own rules. What does it mean for injured workers?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/ZCpovx2muCH'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do have to say that I love the wide-eyed, &quot;Why, no, no company would ever mistreat an employee because they are all competing to get good workers to stay with them.&quot; Opting out: Inside corporate America&rsquo;s push to ditch workers&rsquo; comp One Texas lawyer is helping companies opt out of workers&rsquo; compensation and write &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/because-what-better-way-to-save-a-company-money-than-eviscerating-workmans-comp.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Because what better way to save a company money than eviscerating workman&#039;s comp?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,528,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-economic-justice","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30008,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/i-owe-my-vote-to-the-company-store.html","url_meta":{"origin":128323,"position":0},"title":"I owe my vote to the company store","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Aug-12 10:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So it was \"mandatory\" but not \"forced\" (?) for the mine workers to attend the Romney rally?And, regardless, the company shut down the mine that day so folks who weren't being \"forced' to attend still lost their pay?Classy. 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