Posted on 04/28/2020 3:47:42 PM PDT by jazusamo
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told Fox News Tuesday he will not consider any additional coronavirus aid legislation unless it includes liability or litigation protections for businesses and employees seeking to come back to work.
"We can't pass another bill unless we have liability protections. That's the only way we're going to ultimately begin to get past this," McConnell told "Your World with Neil Cavuto". "We have to have businesses brave enough to open up again and employees brave enough to go back to work. And I'm glad to see that some of the states are beginning to move in the direction of reopening."
"We are in a place that we have never been before and we are all hoping for a rapid recovery," McConnell added. "I think that we get a more rapid recovery if we have liability reform [and] if we have testing that reassures people, because the economy will not truly be open unless everybody's willing to participate in the economy again."
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Another week, another 1/2 Trillion dollar pork fest.
Red states need to reign in the state liability laws and courts. Ambulance chasers are salivating over the prospect of suing for someone getting a sniffle at work.
Not really. Iowa announced that if a person is called back to work by their pre-Covid employer and they refuse to go then they lose their unemployment. I've no doubt other states will do the same.
Make employees sign a waiver.
They have to practice workplace safety. If they don’t, they get fired. If they get sick, it’s their fault. If they don’t want a job, tell them to find another.
And they may have a hard time proving where they got the infection.
In most states I think this is more about the employee-customer and business-customer legal exposure than the employer-employee exposure. If an employee gets sick and wants to claim that it was workplace-related, Im almost certain this would be a workers compensation insurance claim which precludes a lawsuit against the employer in most cases.
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