Labor Activists Protest Comp Benefits

The National Employment Law Project and the state Workers’ Center for Human Rights held an Injured Workers’ Summit in Greenville on Saturday to protest the state’s low workers’ compensation benefits. Rebecca Dixon, NELP deputy program director, said Monday in a telephone interview that several workers told their stories about getting injured on the job and their experiences with the workers’ compensation system. “There was powerful testimony, which really underscored the need for a more robust workers’ compensation safety net in Mississippi, whic...