Starting next year, hotel housekeepers in Illinois, New Jersey and Washington state should be armed with panic buttons they can press in case of assault, a move that worker advocates say may or may not affect the number of workers' compensation claims by hotel staff.
“Most of the claims I see are assaults by managers and co-workers, not hotel guests,” said Rich Marcolus, a claimants' attorney and co-chair of the New Jersey Advisory Council on Safety and Health. “Management's going to know how to get around a panic button, so I'm not sure how much good a panic...
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