Chamber Puts 2 Comp Bills on Job Killers List

The California Chamber of Commerce included on its annual job killers list a bill that would create a presumption that hospital employees contracted bloodborne diseases at work and another bill prohibiting the use of age, race, gender and other factors in apportioning disability.AB 375 by Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, would create a rebuttable presumption of compensability for an employee who provides direct patient care in an acute care hospital and contracts a bloodborne infectious disease or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).The Chamber of Commerce said the bill ...