1. Define "Suitable Employment" pertaining to an employers return to work within restrictions or after reaching maximum improvement.
2. Make willful misrepresentations grounds for disqualifications from receiving benefits.
3. Provide that parties may reach a separate contemporaneous agreement to resolve issues not covered the act.
4. Clarify the rights and responsibilities of employers and employees regarding medical information
5. Cap the duration of compensation for temporary total disability
6. Extend from three hundred to five hundred the number of weeks and injured employee is eligible to receive compensation for partial incapacity
7. Increase the death benefit and burial expense allowance
8. Reduce the Industrial Commission from seven to five members subject to legislative confirmation
9. Provide Commissioners and Deputy Commissioners are subject to the code of judicial standards
10. Repeal the Commission's full exemption from the Administrative Procedure Act, thereby subjecting the commission to rule making pursuant to article 2A of chapter 150B of the general statutes and requiring the commission to readopt rules pursuant to that article.
To take a look at the full wording on this proposed bill, please see the PDF version of the official filed bill.
If you would like to contact your representative to let them know what you think of the proposed bill, you can find who represents you on the North Carolina General Assembly website.
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2 Comments:
Yes, i believe the people that get hurt on the job should get their compensation.It should also include pain and suffering. The workers are on the job doing their best to help your company and to provide quailty service which you strive for, and when they get hurt "the company" don't want to pay the employee. that's not right. The employee's have families to provide for just like the employer have families to provide for. If "WE" the employee didn't provide good customer service or do our job, "which is the reason why we got hurt in the first place" The employee and employer would be out of a jobs. Take care of your people, and your people will take care of you!
"You need to realize how important workers' compensation benefits are to all NC residents and their families. None of us ever know when we will need them. They were created to protect the citizens from losing everything. Do you not know what the impact would be on any worker, if their workers' compensation benefits were reduced or stopped. I have been fortunate enough not to have gone through this situation, but my best friend and neighbor did. They lost their home based the long term reduction to their income and that was with the laws as they stand. How can you even consider making things worse for NC’s working families.
Please assure me that your vote on all such workers compensation reductions or caps will be a definite and resounding NO. Please protect NC workers and families from more devastation. Too many NC citizens have lost enough based on the government allowing businesses to lie and cheat the American public. Don't let their bottom line be yours. Please represent the people that voted you into office.
Thank you for your consideration in this matter. I await your response" THIS WAS SENT ON 3/23/11 TO MY NC SENATOR AND REPRESENTATIVE AND I HAVE YET TO RECEIVE ANY RESPONSE FROM ANYONE. MAKES YOU WONDER IF ANYONE IS ACTUALLY LISTENING
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