Essential workers in California who contract Covid-19 and file a worker’s compensation claim will continue to be afforded a presumption that the infection happened on the job, under a new law Gov.
Police officers, firefighters, and certain health-care employees have until Jan. 1, 2023, to apply for workplace injury benefits under the measure (S.B. 1159). The law extends Newsom’s May executive order that expired in July.
California’s workers “will get the benefits that will keep them and their families sustained for years to come,” bill author state Sen.
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