WORKERS
COMPENSATION COMMITTEE
Staff Contact: Ken
Pokalsky
Issues and Priorities
CIRB's
- Issues in Brief - Business Council Priority Issues
- Extra business costs in New York total more than $35 billion, Public Policy Institute study finds (December 26, 2006)
- New Business Council survey: New York State employers say health-insurance costs and costs of workers' comp, energy, and business taxes are their top policy concerns (December 19, 2006)
- Council urges approval of bill to change how some employers pay workers' comp assessments
- Legislative session ends with defeat of infamous 'Wal-Mart' bills; Lawmakers also pass Council-supported bill to change workers' comp assessments (June 26, 2006)
- Leading lawmakers introduce sweeping workers' comp reforms (June 21, 2006)
- Debt reform, workers' comp reform, avoiding new health-insurance mandates top Council's legislative priorities (June 13, 2006)
- Business leaders say workers' comp damages state's economy (April 25, 2006)
- Council and others in a coalition urge Albany to enact workers' comp reform this year 3/1/06
- Business Council launches Comp Watch '06 to document case for workers' comp reform; an 'e-advocacy' campaign also begins 2/1/06
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