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WORKER COMPENSATION
Workers' Compensation laws are designed to ensure that employees
who are injured or disabled on the job are provided with fixed monetary
awards, eliminating the need for litigation. These laws also provide
benefits for dependents of those workers who are killed because
of work-related accidents or illnesses. Some laws also protect employers
and fellow workers by limiting the amount an injured employee can
recover from an employer and by eliminating the liability of co-workers
in most accidents. State Workers Compensation statutes establish
this framework for most employment. Federal statutes are limited
to federal employees or those workers employed in some significant
aspect of interstate commerce.
The Federal Employment Compensation Act provides workers compensation
for non-military, federal employees. Many of its provisions are
typical of most worker compensation laws. Awards are limited to
"disability or death" sustained while in the performance
of the employee's duties but not caused willfully by the employee
or by intoxication. The act covers medical expenses due to the disability
and may require the employee to undergo job retraining. A disabled
employee receives two thirds of his or her normal monthly salary
during the disability and may receive more for permanent physical
injuries, or if he or she has dependents. The act provides compensation
for survivors of employees who are killed. The act is administered
by the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs.
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The Federal Employment Liability Act (FELA), while not a workers'
compensation statute, provides that railroads engaged in interstate
commerce are liable for injuries to their employees if they have
been negligent.
The Merchant Marine Act (the Jones Act) provides seamen with the
same protection from employer negligence as FELA provides railroad
workers.
Congress enacted the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation
Act (LHWCA) to provide workers' compensation to specified employees
of private maritime employers. The Office of Workers' Compensation
Programs administers the act.
The Black Lung Benefits Act provides compensation for miners suffering
from "black lung" (pneumoconiosis). The Act requires liable
mine operators to pay disability payments and establishes a fund
administered by the Secretary of Labor providing disability payments
to miners where the mine operator is unknown or unable to pay. The
Office of Workers' Compensation Programs regulates the administration
of the act.
California's Workers' Compensation Act provides an example of a
comprehensive state compensation program. It is applicable to most
employers. The statute limits the liability of the employer and
fellow employees. California also requires employers to obtain insurance
to cover potential workers' compensation claims, and sets up a fund
for claims that employers have illegally failed to insure against.
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