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More and more state workers are able to retire with massive payouts for unused vacation and other leave, with a new record ...
Jamie Bourg, the Senior Vice President of Policyholder Services at the Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation, says that ...
A recent state Supreme Court decision overturned more than three decades of practice in the state’s workers’ compensation ...
Benefits wrongly cut off after an IME mischaracterized his injury - now the state's highest court has reversed the decision ...
A state medical employer argued its injured employee could still work - but the court didn't accept that. Here's what it ...
Interviews with former garmet workers in Cambodia described workplace abuses that Nike promised to eradicate long ago.
An “action over” (also called a “third-party over action”) is a type of legal action (lawsuit or arbitration) in which an injured employee, ...
Some legislators now wonder how to convince arbiters they can’t afford 4.5% raises for engineers, social workers, IT ...
The Lamont administration estimates the troopers’ raises would cost $6.3 million next fiscal year, a tiny share of an overall ...
He topped a list of nearly 1,000 workers who left state service last year with $100,000 or more in banked leave benefits ... it’s considered compensation and must be used or cashed out when ...
The Alabama House of Representatives approved a nearly $10 billion Education Trust Fund budget, in addition to several other ...