Tag: workplace injuries
Terminating Employee on Workers’ Comp Involves Delicate Decisions
We are a smaller employer with only 16 employees, and we have an employee who has been on workers’ compensation for more than eight months….
2023 Temporary Total Disability (TTD) Rates Announced
When an employee gets injured on the job, workers’ compensation — a no-fault insurance system that employers are required to have — kicks in. Once…
Workers’ Compensation 2022 Temporary Total Disability Rates
California’s Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) announced that the 2022 minimum and maximum temporary total disability (TTD) rates will increase on January 1, 2022: The minimum TTD…
Hot Temperatures Can Lead to More Workplace Injuries
An Institute of Labor Economics study gathered 18 years of California’s workers’ compensation system claims and compared it to the daily temperature data, and found…
California Fatal Workplace Injuries Increased in 2018
After several years of declines, in 2018 (the latest data available), California’s workplace fatality rate increased with 422 Californians dying in workplace incidents (up from…
