Happy 100th Birthday, Workers' Compensation! | |
Our state-based workers’ compensation system turns 100 this year. Although a federal workers’ compensation law passed in 1908, the first state workers’ compensation law covering private employers that survived legal challenges passed in Wisconsin in 1911. Today, every state has workers’ compensation laws that guarantee medical payments to workers injured, sickened or killed on the job and replace a portion of their lost wages… [251 word article, February 2011] |