haha......yup....you can't just use the word California for every punchline......it get's old....I hate the politics here or at least in SF, and LA but if we are so screwed how in the world do we have the 7th largest economy in the world......dumb luck???????...have a great New Year's.
That was interesting because his family owned a nut farm and those weeks he missed every year (for over 14 years) happened to coincide with their harvesting season or whatever they call it.
Since we self-insure WRT worker’s comp, we have investigators check out things like that. Sure enough, he’s out working on the nut farm during the time he “can’t work due to an aggravated injury” and is receiving payment from us.
Guess what? It’s perfectly legitimate. His doctor claims that his injury is severe enough that he can’t do his job here, but isn’t so severe that he can’t “help out” there. End of story. He goes on comp and gets paid, you just grin and bear it and wait until he ultimately retires or does something dumb like steal something so you can fire him.
Now, I can assure you that I know of NO other state that allows shenanigans like that. You may find it hard to believe, but yes, California is THE most f-ed up state when it comes to things like that. Others may have problems too, but CA takes first place.
Other states like WA and OR have done quite a few things to weed out the false (IMO) “stress claims” and such and enacted different reforms over the last decade or so, but CA has not. Not in any meaningful way.