Workers' Compensation law blog

We know that you work for a few reasons, the most important of them to provide an income for yourself and your family. When anything jeopardizes your ability to make that income, you need to know what to do. Perhaps...

Yes. The state of California recognizes that employees can suffer from mental illnesses due to work related stress. If you are searching for answers to this question then you or someone you love must be suffering from serious mental illness...

ABC News covered a story on the American workforce. They discovered that Americans are amongst the most overworked in the industrialized world. There has been an increase in how many hours Americans week a work to over 40 hours. This article...

An article published earlier this year in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine discusses mental health in the workplace and how employers do not do enough to help employees who suffer from mental health illnesses. In some key findings, and ones...

Wildfires have ravaged California and the Los Angeles area all month and everyone is aware that many people are at risk for injury or illness. We know that Cal/OSHA has issued an advisory for workers and employers in the regions where...

We were reading a story from Illinois the other day and what it said concerning worker mental health, particularly the mental health of first responders, is striking. The story revolves around police officers who want to seek mental health treatment and how...

Did you know that Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have required the state Department of Public Health to alert Cal/OSHA when a worker had too much lead in their blood? As the article points out, lead poisoning is a...

In total, the workplace is responsible for around 120,000 deaths a year, according to a new study. We also know that our work environments can cause us to stress as well, which can really impact our mental health. Many people think...

What comes to mind when you think of dangerous jobs? Sure, we know all the TV shows of longshoremen and fishermen pulling our lobsters out of the sea. We hear about how dangerous they are. We probably think of firefighters...

Since the 1970s employers in the United States have had to follow regulations laid out by the Occupational Safety and Health Act. OSHA enforces safety standards in the workplace as a means to try to prevent workplace injuries, both fatal...