Posted on 05/07/2020 5:59:19 AM PDT by eyeamok
Under the order, Californians diagnosed within two weeks of reporting to work between March 19 and July 5 will be presumed to have contracted the virus on the job.
It will fall on employers to refute any claims for medical coverage and benefits.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
Anyone that worked for a Small Business before this can now Officially KISS THEIR JOB GOOD BYE, because this little move will cost their employer dearly. Any chance of their re-opening and hiring employee's was just Thrown away by Wonder Boy, GET OUT OF CALIFORNIA while you still can.
The thing is, you don’t know where you got it from. The kid handing you coffee through the drive though window? Work? The grocery store? Your spouse who’s completely asymptomatic and unaware? How do you tag it specifically to a single day, a single interaction?
I guess he has locked down his support from trial lawyers ... as if that was ever in doubt.
Why would this be limited to only the China-flu?
What about the regular flu? SARS? MERS?
Any other disease contracted "at work" could fall under this.
And here's one no one has thought about.....what if you contract a STD at work? Yes, we've caught people getting "busy" in conference rooms, the stairwell, etc.
Doesn't say much about the quality of people hired does it?
is this a nuisance order? that is, an order which is unlawful on its face? if so, how soon could it be challenged in court?
this is California shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic. They are going to try and shift people away from unemployment fund and instead pay them from the Workers Comp. Insurance fund.
The EO is lawyer welfare. The EO is juwstification for filing an unlimited number of lawsuits against large businesses to attack their assets.
Small businesses will be exempt because the return is not worth the effort. Large corporations with deep pockets will be the targets.
Rather than hire defense lawyers, the game should change and hit squads should be contracted to end the lawsuits
Stand on a chair to replace a lightbulb and fall, must be Covid19!
Western CSA General Newsom will happily assist in padding the numbers.
WE must get America back to productive work!!!
Another communist attack on the business community. Bob Bitchin is happier than pig in chit.
Why should a buisness now offer ppe to their employees since they are now automatically guilty of giving the virus?
Since they are now automatically guilty why go through with the protective measures for their customers?
It would be just a waste of money to do anything.
Trump stop this nonsense in California.
By law, the executive order will expire and be void the minute the emergency declaration is lifted. This order is really of no legal effect. Newsom is trying to change the laws of California by fiat. He thinks he is a dictator. He can’t do that
Unless the emergency declaration is never lifted this will probably have little effect. It’s a show order. Newsom is just playing dictator.
Just wait for the SSDI (Disability claims) to jump on the bad wagon.
Maybe not. In my state it's the exact OPPOSITE.
In my state, employers are generally protected against additional claims by any worker who collects on a worker's compensation claim. Trial lawyers don't fare well in this type of case for this very reason. That's why the lawyers who advertise their services to people who have been denied their WCI claims are generally the same low-rent mutants who offer divorces for $499. These losers aren't even good enough to be ambulance-chasing personal injury lawyers.
I'd have to look at California's lose more closely, but it may very well be that Newsom's edict does more to PROTECT employers than anything else.
Oh boy, I was waiting for this. IOWs, anyone getting the virus can now claim it as a work illness, which means impairment awards if you can show a disability from it.
My question then would be; does this mean any infectious illness that I contract is going to be work related? Flu, shingles, pink eye? What if I get an STD having sex with someone at work?
Another stupid idea from the stupid state.
Sometimes, a comp claim is preferable to a PI claim, but this just created a bunch of claims that are presumed to be valid that would not otherwise have existed. I can’t see this being good for employers. Everyone who contracted the virus and has missed work now has a comp claim if I’m reading it correctly. WC insurers need to brace for incoming.
In CA it’s a Misdemeanor if you knowingly give someone AIDS by failing to disclose to them that you are Infected.
It used to be a Felony but Governor Moonbeam thought that was too harsh.
You can Sue them for damages if you get it, but I haven’t seen it happen on Judge Judy yet.
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