Courts admitting that covid is an occupational disease! It could also drive companies to provide their workers with clean air & let sick workers stay home.
Colorado's second-highest court ruled for the first time on Thursday that COVID-19 is an "occupational disease" that entitled the widow of a deceased nursing home employee to workers' compensation ben...
It's been understood as a work injury if it's more likely than not to have been contracted at work in most (all?) Canadian jurisdictions with entitlement to worker's compensation benefits.
I mean yes it could be struck down or who knows but we need to be out there talking about this & agitating. When we go to work we expect potable water (Flint still doesn’t have it but 💧is something most expect in the US). We need to expect safe air too. Because each time you catch covid hurts you
I got long COVID on the job and was told that I probably wouldn't qualify for disability so why bother, but I sure can't do a physical job like that again
People who refuse vaccines and CDC advice made their self sick
You are adorable
The capitalist model - in the dystopian future (and present, in some places) we’ll have to buy clean food, water, & air; or hope we get some free from our employers.
One kind of employer that would be forced to start caring about clean air is the health care provider. In which case patients would benefit too.
The US Supreme Court will strike that down before summer.