McConnell vows next coronavirus aid bill 'won't pass the Senate' without business liability protection

Fox News ^ | April 28, 2020 | Charles Creitz

[Trumpnado2016]

Another week, another 1/2 Trillion dollar pork fest.

[spintreebob]

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.

[DoodleDawg]

But perhaps a more inhibiting thing influencing the employees’ desire to return to work is the $600 per week supplemental unemployment payments. That $600 added to the state’s unemployment weekly payment makes the total payment quite “sticky” in holding employees back from return to 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.

[boycott]

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.

[Alberta's Child]

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, I’m almost certain this would be a worker’s compensation insurance claim — which precludes a lawsuit against the employer in most cases.