Workers often sustain an injury or contract a disease arising out of their employment for which the employer and worker’s compensation insurer deny worker’s compensation benefits, on the grounds that the worker cannot identify a specific traumatic event that caused or precipitated the injury or disease. Such a denial may be contrary to fact and law.
The real irony of infectious diseases in the work environment is that how do you prove that you became infected in the work area. There are no outward signs to the body that someone is now infected. How does one prove this claim?
Workers’ Occupational Insurance is based on verifiable injuries. I went to the work area as a complete worker and left as a damaged employee. So…How does someone demonstrate to some unknown person that 1) have they have ever used IV drugs, 2) what is their personal sexual preference, 3) have they been monogamous, or 4) do they possess a tattoo.
This group is to help support those infected in the work area and to give support on challenging the system for a change to it.