We recently had a customer that experienced an outbreak of Scabes that was originally contacted from one of their residential customers. This very contagious disorder ended up affecting a large portion of a complete department of their business. This created a very interesting question: Is this compensible under the Worker’s Compensation laws?
The answer is that yes it could be compensible under Worker’s Comp because the affliction was contacted “in the normal scope of the employee’s work”. However, the employer decided to handle it themselves and simply pay for the medicine for all of the employees that contracted the ailment.
What do you as a business manager or owner think of the method used by the employer to handle the situation? Is this the best course of action in this situation, or should they have done something different? Also, is there potential for your workforce to encounter some kind of contagious disease, and what will you do about it?
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