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workmen's compensation
noun
- compensation for death, injury, or accident suffered by a workman in the course of his employment and paid to him or his dependents
Workmen's Compensation
- A state insurance program that provides money for workers injured on the job and for the dependents of workers killed on the job.
Example Sentences
Hayek, for his part, did worry that government involvement would start a slippery slope to communism, yet he also acknowledged that the âfreeâ market isnât really free and supported social security, workmenâs compensation and even a guaranteed minimum income.
Led by industry groups like the National Association of Manufacturers and the National Electric Light Association, business leaders fought child-labor laws and workmenâs compensation as unfair limits on companies while insisting that âanything less than total business freedom was a step on the road to socialism, or worse.â
The following year, Campbell unsuccessfully tried to allow police dispatchers to claim hypertension or heart disease as occupational diseases eligible for workmenâs compensation.
âThey wanted to keep them on the job until retirement to preclude the high cost of workmenâs compensation payouts and didnât tell them.â
Andrew Perloff, writing in Education Next, says âstudent athleteâ entered academiaâs lexicon in 1957 when a widow lost a claim for workmenâs compensation death benefits from Fort Lewis A&M College for fatal injuries her husband suffered playing football.
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