Work is a place you should not have to worry about getting hurt, but the reality is that employer negligence costs money and sometimes lives. And with the onset of the COVID-19 vaccine and working from home, it’s hard to know what the ever-changing laws mean for you. Learn more about your workplace rights by reading up on the latest.
If you slip, trip, or fall while on the job, you could suffer from serious injuries or even death. While it’s true that fatal falls occur most often in the construction, mining, and certain maintenance industries, recent research shows that injuries from slips, trips, and…
Workers who are hurt on the job are required to provide written notification of the accident to their employer within 30 days. You have two years to file a workers’ compensation claim. The statute of limitations for personal injury claims in North Carolina is three years, while wrongful death…
Imagine that you are injured at work. Perhaps your injury is mild; maybe it’s more serious and requires medical attention. You notice the documentation about workers’ compensation posted in the break room. One of your coworkers, who recently settled his own workers’ compensation claim when…
On May 25, Floridians received news that could be a sign that there is light at the end of the tunnel. The number of COVID-19 workers’ compensation claims has hit a low not seen in the Sunshine State since early in the pandemic. In its…
At the time that I’m writing this post, half of the U.S. population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 40 percent are fully vaccinated. With things looking up, our LinkedIn feeds are already full of approaches, opinions, and plans about…
Marijuana is popularly linked to getting high and stoner culture, but there is a medical benefit, and doctors have started prescribing it to treat chronic conditions. Millions of people use the cannabis plant to treat medical conditions like arthritis, cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma, PTSD, and Parkinson’s…
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that in 2019, there were 5,333 fatal work injuries recorded in the U.S., a 2 percent increase from the 5,250 that occurred in 2018 and the largest annual number since 2007. Of all occupations, construction occupations recorded…
First responders – police or correctional officers, firefighters, EMTs and paramedics – have long been respected heroes, but the COVID-19 pandemic has thrust them into the limelight. These dedicated men and women were not permitted to stay at home or work remotely. They expose themselves…
With hundreds of millions of confirmed cases and nearly three million deaths, COVID-19 has affected our lives and worldwide economy in irreparable ways. But there has been a change no one predicted before the pandemic: a sharp increase in remote workers and an increase in…
The modern workplace may never be the same as it was before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many employers are giving their workers options to work from home permanently; healthcare workers and first responders continue to endure a heightened exposure to a virus that…