Connecticut has become the latest state to issue an executive order aimed at helping essential workers who contract COVID-19 obtain workers compensation.
Gov. Ned Lamont on Friday signed an executive order creating a rebuttable presumption that would make workers who presumably contracted COVID-19 on the job eligible for workers compensation.
“Our state owes a debt to all of the health care professionals, grocery store clerks, and other essential workers who served vital roles during the earliest and darkest stages of this public health crisis,” he said in a statement. “The executive order is an important step to ensure our essential workers, who went to work while others stayed safe and stayed home, are made whole.”
Several state senators had called on the governor to work with them on COVID-19 presumption legislation, noting that essential workers who contracted COVID-19 were likely to suffer health and financial consequences as a result of the infection.
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