A state Senate hearing last Tuesday on a bill that would revise Michigan's workers' compensation law went largely unnoticed. If adopted in its current form, House Bill 5002 would allow insurers to reduce or deny a worker's benefits based on potential wages that worker could be earning at a hypothetical job. Over one hundred people, a mix of union officials, business lobbyists and concerned citizens turned up to testify at the hearings, which took place just before the Thanksgiving holiday, Michigan Radio reports. Opinions on the proposed measure have been sharply divided. Wendy Block of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce wrote on the group's website that the legislation was "a solid first step towards updating, reforming and modernizing key areas of the law, which will provide increased certainty for employees and employers." Karla Swift, president of the Michigan AFL-CIO, strongly disagreed with this view in a recent Detroit News editorial. "HB5002 would turn the system on its head by changing the law so that employees would not only lose their workers' compensation by the wages they earn when they return to work, but by the amount of wages they could possibly earn at a job not even offered to them," Swift wrote.
Hearing On Workers' Comp Law Went Largely Unheard
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Mon, 11/28/2011 - 4:17pm
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