Nebraska Comployment Pod Jon Rehm

Will the protests combine with concerns about workplace safety and COVID to spark radical change? I don't know, but I speculate in this episode.

Some communities in rural Nebraska are per capita leaders in COVID exposure. In this episode I talk more about the link between occupational safety and workplace safety as well as moves to protect business from COVID litigation -- including workers' compensation claims.

COVID-19 has struck cities and towns with meatpacking plants particularly hard. Nebraska cities and towns like Grand Island, Lexington, Crete and Dakota City are no exception. My legal practice takes me face to face with these workers and employers in those cities and towns. In this episode, I talk about COVID-19 and workers' compensation as well creative ways workers are skirting the limited remedies of workers' compensation to hold the packing plants legally accountable for their role in the COVID-19 crisis.

In this episode I talk about how employment at-will is making the coronavirus crisis worse. I also talk unemployment benefits for gig economy workers and the weakness of the WARN Act.

There is also some non-COVID 19 talk about the recent Comcast decision by the Supreme Court.

In this episode I talk about how workers compensation insurance may not help most workers effected by coronavirus. I think paid leave and good health insurance are a better remedy. But while the proposed emergency paid leave legislation passed by the House could help some, it’s inadequate for many reasons.

In Episode 11, I unpack Mike Bloomberg's use of non-disclosure agreements to settle sexual harassment and gender discrimination cases.  I'll skip the serpent imagery, but I'm going at least 3/4 Chapo taking the senior Senator from Massachusetts out of the show notes. 

Bluntly. the first segment has some real strong Gen-X -guy -recording- something -in -his- car energy. 

Then I tone it down a notch or three with a nice chill segment about marijuana and workers' compensation. It's a lot more fun to talk about preemption and fee schedules in workers' compensation when the focus is weed rather than air ambulances.