Recent reports from the Texas Division of Workers' Compensation vastly underestimate the number of workers who have no benefits coverage and no protection in case of workplace injury, a worker advocacy group said this week.
“They're in a kind of alternate reality with those numbers,” said Stephanie Gharakhanian, special counsel with the Workers Defense Project, which has offices in Austin, Houston and Dallas.
The Division of Workers' Compensation recently published two biennial reports that are required by law, designed to give lawmakers an idea of the status of t...
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