Salary Continuation, Nurse Presumption Bills on Hold for Costs

A bill that would specify California police officers can receive two years of temporary disability benefits in addition to one year of salary continuation pay for industrial injuries and another that would create a presumption of compensability for hospital workers with MRSA skin infections were placed in a legislative holding file pending final action on a budget.Assembly Bill 2378, by Assemblyman Henry Perea, D-Fresno, would abrogate an appellate court decision in County of Alameda v. WCAB (Knittel) finding that salary continuation benefits under Labor Code Section 4850 should be considered ...