So we have all sorts of pressure now on employers and employees to go back to work. And it is INEVITABLE that when they do so, a lot more people are going to be exposed to CV-19, some of those people will get sick, and some of THOSE people are going to die. No question about it.
While it's painful to say so, it is rational to believe that some deaths are an acceptable price to pay for putting millions of people back to work.
But also inevitable is a Tsunami of lawsuits by the sick employees and their families against their respective employers (and the Governors of the affected states) for "negligently" bringing them back before it was "safe." Hell, the lawsuits have already started.
In fact, any employer with more than 50 employees can COUNT ON being bankrupted within three years by the lawsuits that will inevitably follow the back-to-work order. And it is unlikely that said employers will be able to stand on the protections afforded by Workmens' Comp statutes; the tort bar will break down that wall almost immediately.
So is it incumbent now for State legislatures to prepare legislation to protect employers from such suits - and government officials from such suits - when the back-to-work orders come out?
How could the legislatures leave employers hanging in this position? It would be unconscionable. And yet, most state legislators are lawyers, whose friends and acquaintances stand to reap huge rewards from the aforesaid Tsunami. Can we trust them to do the right thing?
While it's painful to say so, it is rational to believe that some deaths are an acceptable price to pay for putting millions of people back to work.
But also inevitable is a Tsunami of lawsuits by the sick employees and their families against their respective employers (and the Governors of the affected states) for "negligently" bringing them back before it was "safe." Hell, the lawsuits have already started.
In fact, any employer with more than 50 employees can COUNT ON being bankrupted within three years by the lawsuits that will inevitably follow the back-to-work order. And it is unlikely that said employers will be able to stand on the protections afforded by Workmens' Comp statutes; the tort bar will break down that wall almost immediately.
So is it incumbent now for State legislatures to prepare legislation to protect employers from such suits - and government officials from such suits - when the back-to-work orders come out?
How could the legislatures leave employers hanging in this position? It would be unconscionable. And yet, most state legislators are lawyers, whose friends and acquaintances stand to reap huge rewards from the aforesaid Tsunami. Can we trust them to do the right thing?