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silverweb

(16,402 posts)
Mon Aug 3, 2015, 02:31 PM Aug 2015

Petition: End Gender Bias in California's Workers' Comp

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]New change.org petition for Gov. Brown to support AB 305, which would eliminate gender discrimination in workers' compensation benefits:

[font face:"Arial"]End Gender Bias in California's Workers' Comp.[font face="Verdana"]

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Petition: End Gender Bias in California's Workers' Comp (Original Post) silverweb Aug 2015 OP
Worker's comp gender bias has to stop. silverweb Aug 2015 #1
A concise evaluation: silverweb Aug 2015 #2

silverweb

(16,402 posts)
1. Worker's comp gender bias has to stop.
Thu Aug 6, 2015, 06:23 PM
Aug 2015

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Women don't just get paid less for the same work as men. We're also often shorted in workers' comp cases.

In California, that's because "...if you get sick or injured at work, being a woman could reduce the workers' compensation you're entitled to under the law." This is "putting women directly at physical and financial risk."

Please sign and share this petition to Governor Brown if you, too, think it's time to end gender bias in workers' comp.

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