As MLAC Meets Again Over COVID, Issues Center on WCD's Authority

Members of Oregon’s Management-Labor Advisory Committee this afternoon will meet for the ninth time since June as they continue their ongoing struggle to issue a consensus recommendation on how the state should handle workers’ compensation claims related to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past several months, employer and worker advocates on the committee have not been able to agree whether Oregon’s COVID-19 problems should be solved with a rebuttable presumption or with a new rule that would require a “reasonable investigation” before carriers or self-insured emp...