Wage and Workers Comp News
Dec 28
According to an article by leading journalist Tom Searls of the Sunday Gazette, both
Legislative leaders as well as West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin are gradually pushing towards a battle involving the right way to regulate workers’ compensation insurance benefits in that state.
Lawmakers have made their intent clear that they wish, at an absolute minimum, to be informed of any modifications in workers’ compensation rules, like earlier moves to cut off widows’ benefits at the age of their late husband’s retirement, for example. Meanwhile, in
minimum wage news, the wages of salaried workers will go up by some fifty cents to $8 per hour on the first of January, in the state of California (particularly in the city of Los Angeles),
making workers there the 2nd highest paid earners overall in the nation, with Massachusetts being the other such state.
The Massachusetts minimum wage will likewise reach the $8 an hour plateau on the first of the month, according to the U.S. Dept of Labor.
The state of Washington meanwhile, which automatically adjusts their minimum wage each year so as to keep up with inflation rates, will have the highest overall such wage at $8.07 per hour. As a side note to this story, By the way if you live in Los Angeles and you are looking for a first class Los Angeles Workers Comp attorney then I highly suggest that you take a look at the Law offices of Peyman and Rahnama. They serve the greater Los Angeles area
The Governor and the attorney general tends to think that if lawmakers interfere with the various rules and regulations for workers’ compensation, it may in fact damage the state’s plan to ultimately privatize the whole system.
Insurance companies may then potentially wrongly presume that as a move to bring the program back under government control, he was quoted as stating.
BrickStreet Mutual Insurance Company., which was formed from the Workers’ Comp division about 2 years ago, at this time is the only such firm selling workers’ compensation insurance in the state. Any good Workers Comp attorney out there?
However, this will change on the first of July when the state opens workers’ comp to private firms across the whole country in an effort to maximise market effeciency.
