By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefEmployer groups, who are already apprehensive about what Gov. Jerry Brown will do with workers' compensation legislation, are worried that a union-backed bill, which would create a rebuttable presumption of compensability for hospital workers who contract diseases caused by blood-borne pathogens, creates a dangerous precedent of expanding presumptions to cover private-sector workers.While former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was not shy about vetoing workers' compensation legislation opposed by business, no one knows where his Democratic successor stands...
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