workmen's compensation

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The following year, Campbell unsuccessfully tried to allow police dispatchers to claim hypertension or heart disease as occupational diseases eligible for workmen’s compensation.

From Washington Post • Dec. 13, 2022

“They wanted to keep them on the job until retirement to preclude the high cost of workmen’s compensation payouts and didn’t tell them.”

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2022

Workers who get sick on the job might not be able to sue their employers, but would have access to workmen’s compensation to cover lost wages and medical care, legal experts said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 15, 2020

This was the movement for compulsory health insurance, which overlapped with the public health movement, but was more in the spirit of some of the Progressive Era reforms that were successful, like workmen’s compensation.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2020

This has no more validity than a similar objection raised against any and all interference between employer and employé, whether it be limitation of hours, workmen's compensation acts or any other industrial legislation.

From The Trade Union Woman by Henry, Alice