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Nebraska Comployment Pod
by Jon Rehm
A pod about workers compensation and employment law by a plaintiff’s lawyer in Nebraska.
Episodes
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The protests, workplace rights and workplace safety
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.
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Nebraska COVIDhuskers
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.
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COVID-19 strikes Nebraska hard
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…
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The Coronavirus Pod: Episode 2: Return of the Employment at-will red pill
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.
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The Coronavirus Episode
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…
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Non-Disclosure and Workers' Chronicsation
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...
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Workplace safety is a civil rights issue
This podcast talks about civil rights all the time, not just on MLK Day. In this episode I talk about the intersection of workplace safety and civil rights. I also go through some legal history of the civil rights movement and how cases from the Reconstruction and Jim Crow era still resonate today.
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I hate the 2010s
I talk about the opioid crisis and workers' compensation, the ADA, the ACA, constitutional challenges to workers' compensation laws and the gig economy.
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Article IV on the floor
An article about a successful regional discrimination case in China, lead me to think about why that kind of case wouldn't work in the United States. That lead me to thinking about Article IV of the U.S. Constitution and why workers' compensation benefits aren't as mobile as injured workers.
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How employers suppress workers' compensation claims
Some employers do their worst to suppress workers' compensation claims. A recent article in Bloomberg Law documents what UPS is doing to under report work injuries and explains why pressure from Amazon may be increasing pressure for them to do so. I talk about how workers compensation laws help...
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Amazon and The Shameless Economy
How is Jeff Bezos like Frank Gallagher? Listen and find out
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Will SCOTUS gut a major civil rights law? Looks like they will
In this episode I discuss the Comcast case which was heard by the Supreme Court on November 13th. It looks like the Court will read a heightened "but for" causation standard into 42 USC 1981. Section 1981 is our oldest civil rights law and was passed to protect former slaves after the Civil War.…
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What’s the problem with award ceremonies in workers’ comp.?
What’s the problem with the insurance Industry having award ceremonies for injured workers?
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Why injured workers stop going to the doctor... even if they are still hurting
Injured workers need to get medical care to have good outcomes in their workers' compensation case. But many barriers stand in their way. This episode discusses some of the reasons injured workers stop going to the doctor.
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Employment at-will red pill
What’s employment at-will? Where does it come from? How is it influence felt in the law and politics? Find out in this episode.
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How many episodes does Nebraska Comployment Pod have?
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A pod about workers compensation and employment law by a plaintiff’s lawyer in Nebraska.
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Nebraska Comployment Pod is created and hosted by Jon Rehm.
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