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Age’S Influence On Workplace Safety, Kelly Muhammad, Cheryl Marcham
Age’S Influence On Workplace Safety, Kelly Muhammad, Cheryl Marcham
Publications
According to the National Safety Council (NSC, n.d.), the total cost of work injuries in 2019 was an estimated $171 billion. This estimate includes wage and productivity losses, medical expenses, administrative expenses and employers’ uninsured costs. In that same year, an estimated 105 million workdays were lost due to injuries (NSC, n.d.). This report does not provide any specific details or any characteristics about the injured. However, knowledge of certain characteristics of the injured such as age can be critical information. This type of information could be useful in the development of workplace hazard prevention and mitigation programs.
Compensation, Commodification, And Disablement: How Law Has Dehumanized Laboring Bodies And Excluded Nonlaboring Humans, Karen M. Tani
Compensation, Commodification, And Disablement: How Law Has Dehumanized Laboring Bodies And Excluded Nonlaboring Humans, Karen M. Tani
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era. by Nate Holdren.
Damaged Bodies, Damaged Lives: Immigrant Worker Injuries As Dignity Takings, Jayesh Rathod, Rachel Nadas
Damaged Bodies, Damaged Lives: Immigrant Worker Injuries As Dignity Takings, Jayesh Rathod, Rachel Nadas
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
Government data consistently affirm that foreign-born workers in the U.S. experience high rates of on-the-job illness and injury. This article explores whether—and under what circumstances—these occupational harms suffered by immigrant workers constitute a dignity taking. The article argues that some injuries suffered by foreign-born workers are indirect takings by the state due to the government’s lackluster oversight and limited penalties for violations of occupational safety and health laws. Using a framework of the body as property, the article then explores when work-related injury constitutes an infringement upon a property right. The article contends that the government’s weak enforcement apparatus, coupled …
Danger And Dignity: Immigrant Day Laborers And Occupational Risk, Jayesh Rathod
Danger And Dignity: Immigrant Day Laborers And Occupational Risk, Jayesh Rathod
Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals
The plight of immigrant workers in the United States has captured significant scholarly attention in recent years. Despite the prevalence of discourses regarding this population, one set of issues has received relatively little attention: immigrant workers’ exposure to unhealthy and unsafe working conditions, and their corresponding susceptibility to workplace injuries and illnesses. Researchers have consistently found that immigrant workers suffer disproportionately from occupational injuries and fatalities, even when controlling for industry and occupation. Why, then, are foreign-born workers at greater risk for workplace injuries and fatalities, when compared with their native-born counterparts? This Article seeks to develop answers to that …
The Workers' Compensation System Of British Columbia: Still In Transition, H. Allan Hunt, Peter S. Barth, Michael J. Leahy
The Workers' Compensation System Of British Columbia: Still In Transition, H. Allan Hunt, Peter S. Barth, Michael J. Leahy
H. Allan Hunt
No abstract provided.
New Hope For Workers' Compensation Programs, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck
New Hope For Workers' Compensation Programs, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck
H. Allan Hunt
No abstract provided.
Why Not The Best? Service Delivery Core Review Report, H. Allan Hunt
Why Not The Best? Service Delivery Core Review Report, H. Allan Hunt
H. Allan Hunt
No abstract provided.
Service Delivery Core Review: A Reappraisal, H. Allan Hunt
Service Delivery Core Review: A Reappraisal, H. Allan Hunt
Reports
No abstract provided.
Is Labor Really Cheap In China - Compliance With Labor And Employment Laws, Marisa Anne Pagnattaro
Is Labor Really Cheap In China - Compliance With Labor And Employment Laws, Marisa Anne Pagnattaro
San Diego International Law Journal
This Article details China’s the growing body of labor and employment laws. Specifically, this research analyzes major labor and employment law developments in China, including the newly adopted Labor Contract Law, employment discrimination sexual harassment, wages, workplace health and safety, worker privacy, and dispute resolution. The ramifications of this developing legal landscape on U.S. companies doing business in China are also discussed.
Safety Practices, Firm Culture, And Workplace Injuries, Richard J. Butler, Yong-Seung Park
Safety Practices, Firm Culture, And Workplace Injuries, Richard J. Butler, Yong-Seung Park
Upjohn Press
The authors present analysis of the impact of various HRM practices on firms’ workers’ compensation costs; specifically, which practices lower firms’ workers’ compensation costs and whether the impact is the result of changes in technical efficiency or comes through induced changes in workers’ behavior.
Why Not The Best? Service Delivery Core Review Report, H. Allan Hunt
Why Not The Best? Service Delivery Core Review Report, H. Allan Hunt
Upjohn Institute Technical Reports
No abstract provided.
Workers' Compensation Under Alternative Insurance Arrangements, Terry Thomason, Timothy P. Schmidle, John F. Burton
Workers' Compensation Under Alternative Insurance Arrangements, Terry Thomason, Timothy P. Schmidle, John F. Burton
Employment Research Newsletter
No abstract provided.
Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Costs, And Safety Under Alternative Insurance Arrangements, Terry Thomason, Timothy P. Schmidle, John F. Burton
Workers' Compensation: Benefits, Costs, And Safety Under Alternative Insurance Arrangements, Terry Thomason, Timothy P. Schmidle, John F. Burton
Upjohn Press
Thomason, Schmidle, and Burton make use of a unique data set to delve into how insurance arrangements affect several objectives of the workers' compensation (WC) program. They underscore the effects of deregulation and other changes in WC insurance pricing arrangements by performing empirical analyses that use state-specific cost, benefit, and injury data from 48 states for 1975-1995. This allows them to address the interactive relationships among the four objectives of WC systems adequacy of benefits, affordability of WC insurance, efficiency in the benefits delivery system, and prevention of workplace injuries and diseases and how various public policies adopted by states …
The Workers' Compensation System Of British Columbia: Still In Transition, H. Allan Hunt, Peter S. Barth, Michael J. Leahy, Workers' Compensation Board Of British Columbia
The Workers' Compensation System Of British Columbia: Still In Transition, H. Allan Hunt, Peter S. Barth, Michael J. Leahy, Workers' Compensation Board Of British Columbia
Upjohn Institute Technical Reports
No abstract provided.
New Hope For Workers' Compensation Programs, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck
New Hope For Workers' Compensation Programs, H. Allan Hunt, Rochelle Virginia Habeck
Employment Research Newsletter
No abstract provided.
The Tragedy Of Black Lung: Federal Compensation For Occupational Disease, Peter S. Barth
The Tragedy Of Black Lung: Federal Compensation For Occupational Disease, Peter S. Barth
Upjohn Press
This study details the development of the federal government's Black Lung program and evaluates its policy components.
Unexplained Accidents And Assaults: The Problems And Burdens Of Proof Under The Texas Workers' Compensation Statute, J. Thomas Sullivan
Unexplained Accidents And Assaults: The Problems And Burdens Of Proof Under The Texas Workers' Compensation Statute, J. Thomas Sullivan
Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Hawaiian Pineapple Co. V. Industrial Acci. Com. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter
Hawaiian Pineapple Co. V. Industrial Acci. Com. [Dissent], Jesse W. Carter
Jesse Carter Opinions
An award of accident commission was annulled because record was devoid of substantial evidence that employer intended to do harm, had actual knowledge of consequences of failure to provide adequate safety devices, or had knowing disregard for safety.