Workers Compensation Laws News

Of cer seeks compensation
Northwest Herald - MARENGO A police officer who said he was injured on the job wants the city to pay him a year's salary and benefits at a cost of nearly $57,000 even though he cannot work. Officer Mario DiGiovanni's attorney, Barry Ketter, has threatened to sue the

Boy, 14, tells of boot camp beatings
Miami Herald - The screaming guards. The pressure points. The knee takedowns. The acrid ammonia stick shoved in the face of a rubber-legged 14-year-old named Martin Lee Anderson. Aaron Swartz can't forget any of it. Not because he saw it all the way most people did

Workers protest in IR test case
The Australian - Feb 20 3:30 PM
A GROUP of 200 workers have staged an angry protest outside a Melbourne automotive factory over what they say are plans to use new federal labour laws to cut wages and conditions.Save to My Web

Options for VITA workers
Richmond Times-Dispatch - 1 hour, 51 minutes ago
The Virginia Information Technologies Agency has promised its workers will receive comparable -- or better -- employment benefits from the state's new IT contractor.Save to My Web

'Retiree' busted in disability scam
New York Daily News - Feb 20 1:27 AM
A former Town of Hempstead highway worker who has been collecting workers' compensation since 1996 was busted in Florida working for a moving company, authorities said.Save to My Web

Malaysia killing chickens as India wraps up huge cull
International Herald Tribune - Feb 21 7:02 AM
More than half a million birds have been culled in Indian district of Navapur since the virus was found in samples from 30,000 chickens that died of natural causes.Save to My Web