Dan Walters: Workers' comp overhaul a recurring drill

Sacramento Bee

Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders tout an overhaul of the multi-billion-dollar system of compensating disabled workers for job- related illnesses and injuries as a major accomplishment this year.  Actually, negotiators for employers and labor unions hammered out changes in workers' compensation during months of private negotiations and handed them to the Legislature, thus continuing a time-honored – or, some say, dishonored – tradition of altering rules of the compensation system once a decade.
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