Senate Holding DLIR Informational Hearing in January

Before the 2018 legislative session begins in earnest, the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations will update lawmakers on happenings within the agency that oversees the state’s workers’ compensation system and enforces workplace safety standards. DLIR this year resurrected a working group that met six times in 2016 to develop recommendations to streamline the workers’ compensation system. Lawmakers in 2017 passed House Concurrent Resolution 105, asking the working group to prepare a report on vocational rehabilitation programs to get people back to work following an i...