Summary
The information on coverage of workers and employers by state workers’ compensation laws include elective and compulsory laws, limitations of coverage to specified hazardous employment, exemption of farmworkers, domestic workers, and casual employees, lack of coverage of some public employees, exclusion of self-employed persons, and the coverage of railroad workers and seamen by federal programs. Specific issues include measurement of coverage, the gradual expansion of coverage, and the enforcement of coverage.
Subjects:
Coverage of Workers and Employers
Citation:
C. Arthur Williams and Peter S. Barth, “Covered Employment Under State Workmen’s Compensation Laws,” Chapter 7 in Compendium on Workmen’s Compensation (Washington, DC: National Commission on State Workmen’s Compensation Laws, 1973.)