Nurses condemn California senate committee vote to protect insurance companies, not nurses and health care workers

Nurses condemn California senate committee vote to protect insurance companies, not nurses and health care workers

ADonahue
May 15, 2020

The California Nurses Association (CNA), representing 100,000 registered nurses, strongly condemned the state Senate’s Labor, Public Employment, and Retirement committee for failing to pass SB 893 (Caballero), a bill that would have made nurses and other direct-care hospital workers automatically presumed eligible for workers compensation for infectious and respiratory diseases, including COVID-19, as well as musculoskeletal injuries, which nurses experience at extremely high rates.
California Nurses Association
May 15, 2020

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