Compliance

The Missouri House has approved legislation barring employees from suing co-workers for on-the-job injuries.

Illinois' troubled system for compensating injured state workers hands out money too readily, sometimes without medical evidence to back up a claim and occasionally paying benefits the hurt employee didn't even seek, according to an audit released Wednesday.

The Oklahoma House has defeated workers' compensation legislation that would have allowed large employers to opt-out of the state's workers' compensation system.

Is an arrest in a barroom brawl 20 years ago a job disqualifier? Not necessarily, the government said Wednesday in new guidelines on how employers can avoid running afoul of laws prohibiting job discrimination.

In a first-of-its-kind ruling, the agency that enforces the nation's job discrimination laws has ruled that transgender people are protected from bias in the workplace.

What is the penalty for each willful OSHA violation?