Workers Comp: The Rights And Responsibilities Of Employers

Discuss the responsibilities and rights of employers and employees regarding Worker’s Compensation Laws
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Worker’s compensation laws entail a conventional of rules governing employees for harm caused by job-related activities. The system outlines the rights of the worker and the employer’s obligation.
Rights of the worker
To report the injury to the employer at its occurrence mostly within thirty days. Failure to inform the supervisor of the work-related damage within the set deadline then, one fails to meet the elementary requirement for making a claim for compensation. After reporting, the worker should file a claim form CITATION Nea08 \l 1033 (Bevans, 2008).
To ascertain medical care with medical mileage reimbursement if the treatment takes place outside one’s locality.
To claim benefits if, for more than seven days, the employee cannot offer labor. The benefits include the temporary partial disability, total disability, impairment and reemployment services benefits. The benefits vary based on the intense and type of injury caused and its effect on employee’s performance at work CITATION HG17 \l 1033 (HG, 2017).
Employer’s responsibility
To ensure that he/she has a workers’ compensation coverage if he has more than four staff members in the case of non-construction industry. This may be self-insurance or getting services from a registered insurance agency CITATION Nea08 \l 1033 (Bevans, 2008).
Reports the worker’s damages to the insurance firm within seven days from the moment the employee reported the incidence CITATION Lex13 \l 1033 (Larson, 2013).
Provide the injured worker with immediate medical treatment and recommend a clinician.
Complete the injury report and send it to the compensation board office with a copy being sent to the insurance firm CITATION HG17 \l 1033 (HG, 2017).
Adhere to requests by different authorities in providing information on the wounded worker.
In both the employee and worker cases, each indiv...