Tribe Amends Work Comp Provisions in Gaming Compact
Tuesday, August 14, 2018 | 0
The Karuk Tribe signed an amended gaming compact with California Gov. Jerry Brown that updated the workers’ compensation requirements for employees at the Rain Rock Casino in Yreka, according to a report by the Times-Standard.
The amended compact requires the tribe to consent to the jurisdiction of the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board. Alternatively, the tribe could create its own workers’ compensation system providing similar coverage.
Any comp system the tribe creates would have to provide up to $10,000 of medical treatment for an alleged injury until the claim is accepted or rejected, as is provided through the state comp system. The tribe’s program would also have to allow injured workers to pick a treating physician and make available “quality and timely medical treatment provided comparable to the state’s Medical Treatment Utilization Schedule.”
A spokeswoman for the governor’s office said the tribe requested the amendments to the 2014 compact that allowed it to build the Yreka casino.
“That new language has been included in more recent compacts – to they effectively modernized their existing compact,” spokeswoman Ali Bay wrote in an email to the Times-Standard.
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