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/wˈərkmənz kˌɑmpənsˈeɪʃən/ Listen

Workmen's compensation

noun

Compensation for death or injury suffered by a worker in the course of his employment.

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"Workmen's compensation" Quotes from Famous Books

... labor's struggle to have a Federal Child Labor amendment to the Constitution ratified by the various state legislatures, and to have such legislation enacted as the Workmen's Compensation Laws, Mothers' Pensions, and Old Age Pensions, received no support from the clergy. He concludes ...

— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks

... that labor's struggle to have a Federal Child Labor amendment to the Constitution ratified by the various state legislatures, and to have such legislation enacted as the Workmen's Compensation Laws, Mothers' Pensions, and Old Age Pensions, received no support from the clergy. He concludes ...

— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks

... the federal courts by revising and amending the maritime law which existed at the time the Constitution was adopted, but in so doing, it cannot go beyond the reach of that jurisdiction.[1430] This power cannot be delegated to the States; hence acts of Congress which purported to make State Workmen's Compensation laws applicable to maritime cases ...

— The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation • Edward Corwin