Injured Worker Resource Page
We're Planning For the Future - Help Us Find Every Eligible Kid!
Our Planning for the Future initiative identifies potential scholarship applicants, especially those who are not yet old enough to consider continuing their education. If you know a child who may be eligible for a Kids’ Chance scholarship, please refer them to us so we can support workers’ families for years to come.
Kind Souls Foundation is a nonprofit warm line service for individuals and their family members experiencing work displacement due to injury, disability, or a healthcare event. The mission of the foundation is to provide thorough emotional support to those navigating the unexpected realities of work displacement, with groups of volunteers who offer compassionate listening and valuable information to local resources. The foundation offers free telephone, text/chat, and virtual face to face emotional support sessions. All conversations are completely confidential.
A message from Kind Souls: “We recognize the mental health impact of job displacement. It can feel devaluing and isolating to be out of work. No matter what the needs may be, having a support system assists people in making emotional adjustments to new circumstances. We are here.”
If you would like to engage with a Kind Soul, book a free session at www.kindsoulsfoundation.org or call 1.833.KIND-SOUL.
WILG is the national non-profit membership organization dedicated to representing the interests of millions of workers and their families who each year, suffer the consequences of work-related injuries or occupational illnesses and who need expert legal assistance to obtain medical care and other relief under workers’ compensation programs. WILG is a network of like-minded advocates for workers’ rights, sharing information and knowledge, a sense of commitment to help each other and our clients.
Workers’ compensation laws were enacted over 100 years ago in the United States as a then novel approach to dealing with the costs associated with workplace injuries and deaths. Known as “The Grand Bargain” employers are required to provide at their own cost, workers’ compensation coverage for job related injuries, diseases and death, without regard to fault of the parties. In exchange for this rather broad coverage, employers cannot under almost all circumstances, be held liable for common law civil or tort damages.
Each state has its own version of workers’ compensation as does the Federal Government for its workers and other types of employment, such as claims under the Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act, or the Jones Act, for employees injured at sea.
The general foundation of a claim is that the injury or disease must arise out of and in the course of employment. However simple these terms may be, navigating the law of workers’ compensation can at times be complex. In addition, other sources of benefits such as Social Security Disability, Long Term Disability, Medicare, the Americans with Disability Act (ADA) and others require a particular brand of expertise.
We at WILG advocate for the rights of injured workers through education, communication, legislative advocacy and, if necessary, litigation before the appropriate workers’ compensation board or commission.
News Affecting Injured Workers'
Department of Labor Memorandum to the American People (January 5, 2017)
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Directory of State Workers' Compensation Officials
Frequently asked Workers Compensation Questions by State
Workers' Compensation Programs
- Energy Employees Occupational Illness Comp Program
- Federal Employees' Comp Program
- Longshore & Harbor Workers' Comp Program
- Federal Black Lung Benefits Program
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