Many Protections for Frontline Workers are going away December 31st, 2020.

This is coming as COVID now surges to record highs, and many are estimating that we will be losing 2,200 lives per day in the USA, and we are looking at tens of thousands of new positive cases every single day in Illinois, according to the state's department of public health. https://dph.illinois.gov/topics-services/diseases-and-conditions/diseases-a-z-list/coronavirus

It is in this very moment, that the State of Illinois Legislators are planning to abandon frontline workers, and allow Disability Payments, Worker's Compensation claims, Death Benefits, and so on to have a deadline.

As of now, if you contract COVID-19 on the job January 1st, you will be 100 percent responsible financially.

Worker's Compensation for this pandemic SHOULD BE PERMANENT WITH NO DEADLINE!

Worker's Compensation should also not be able to rebut any case using the defense of "following CDC guidelines."

This is actually unprecedented, and in clearly incongruent with the intent of the OSH Act.

If someone is injured at work in any other way, despite good safety protocols, the employer is ALWAYS responsible for the injury.

If the preponderance of evidence shows that the employee caught the virus at work, or employees as term of employment must interact with the general public, THE EMPLOYER should be responsible for the medical treatment, lost wages, and death benefits of that individual, if the preponderance of evidence shows that the employee caught the virus at work, no exceptions, and NO DEADLINES!

DO NOT ABANDON FRONTLINE WORKERS!   

DO NOT ALLOW ANY OF THE COVID19 AMENDMENTS TO SB 471 EXPIRE!

The year may be ending, but COVID is just getting started!

EMERGENCY BILLS​

SB471

("b-5) Upon the occurrence of circumstances, directly or indirectly attributable to COVID-19, occurring on or after March 9, 2020 and on or before December 31, 2020 which would hinder the physical recovery from an injury of an eligible
employee within the one-year period as required under subsection (b), the eligible employee shall be entitled to an extension of no longer than 60 days by which he or she shall continue to be paid by the employing public entity on the same basis as he or she was paid before the injury...”