Will the protests combine with concerns about workplace safety and COVID to spark radical change? I don't know, but I speculate in this episode.

Some communities in rural Nebraska are per capita leaders in COVID exposure. In this episode I talk more about the link between occupational safety and workplace safety as well as moves to protect business from COVID litigation -- including workers' compensation claims.

COVID-19 has struck cities and towns with meatpacking plants particularly hard. Nebraska cities and towns like Grand Island, Lexington, Crete and Dakota City are no exception. My legal practice takes me face to face with these workers and employers in those cities and towns. In this episode, I talk about COVID-19 and workers' compensation as well creative ways workers are skirting the limited remedies of workers' compensation to hold the packing plants legally accountable for their role in the COVID-19 crisis.

In this episode I talk about how employment at-will is making the coronavirus crisis worse. I also talk unemployment benefits for gig economy workers and the weakness of the WARN Act.

There is also some non-COVID 19 talk about the recent Comcast decision by the Supreme Court.

In Episode 11, I unpack Mike Bloomberg's use of non-disclosure agreements to settle sexual harassment and gender discrimination cases.  I'll skip the serpent imagery, but I'm going at least 3/4 Chapo taking the senior Senator from Massachusetts out of the show notes. 

Bluntly. the first segment has some real strong Gen-X -guy -recording- something -in -his- car energy. 

Then I tone it down a notch or three with a nice chill segment about marijuana and workers' compensation. It's a lot more fun to talk about preemption and fee schedules in workers' compensation when the focus is weed rather than air ambulances.

This podcast talks about civil rights all the time, not just on MLK Day. In this episode I talk about the intersection of workplace safety and civil rights. I also go through some legal history of the civil rights movement and how cases from the Reconstruction and Jim Crow era still resonate today.

I talk about the opioid crisis and workers' compensation, the ADA, the ACA, constitutional challenges to workers' compensation laws and the gig economy.

An article about a successful regional discrimination case in China, lead me to think about why that kind of case wouldn't work in the United States. That lead me to thinking about Article IV of the U.S. Constitution and why workers' compensation benefits aren't as mobile as injured workers.