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Ohio bill would bar illegal workers from compensation
TweetBy MARC KOVAC
COLUMBUS
Undocumented workers would be banned from receiving state workers’-compensation payments if injured on the job, under legislation OK’d by the state Senate on Thursday.
Senate Bill 238, sponsored by Sen. Bill Seitz, a Republican from Cincinnati, passed on a party-line vote of 21-12 and heads to the Ohio House for further consideration.
Existing law already prohibits unemployment and Medicaid payments to undocumented immigrants, but it does not make those individuals ineligible for workers’-compensation payments.
State law also does not require the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation to check whether injured workers are legally living and working in the United States.
Under Seitz’s bill, the bureau would be required to check documentation of workers before issuing benefit payments. The legislation also would prohibit employers from attempting to have undocumented workers covered under the state’s workers’-compensation law.
“We want legal immigrants to come to this country,” said Sen. Tim Grendell, a Republican from Chesterland, who supported the bill. “They’re welcome here. That’s why we have a Statue of Liberty. But we need to uphold the rule of law for those who come illegally into our country.”
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Baby Steps- But it is a Start. Now we just need to send them all packing and we won't have to deal with this issue.
Also typical of the Democrats to oppose a sensible bill when dealing with illegal immigrants. They must be neighbors of Nancy Pelosi and Cambridge.
SkyKing....What's your problem? Still got your panties in a bunch because I called BS on those lies you told on the, "Columbus mayor bans city travel to Arizona" thread? :-)
@cambridge- nope, just calling them like I see um
Illegal immigrants should not get one thing at tax payers expense! Send them back and let them wait for 4 years in line for their visa like I had to. That's the law and it should be upheld! I am sick of the Democrats trying to change our social makeup any way they can! FOLLOW THE LAW-NO EXCEPTIONS!
a neighbor just put on a new roof and the workers came in groups and the license plates were not Ohio
Why doesn't Workers Compensation check and see if they are illegal or not ? I would not pay them if they are illegal. Sorry for there injury but let the MAGOT EMPLOYER pay him and fix him or her up! Then fine that employer and make him pay for there return to where ever ! Right and left hands are suppose to work together period that's if you want to accomplish anything. It's good to see a Rebulican propose this and have it passed, But he's still looking out first for these Magot companies that hire them. Republican how come you don't want to fine these Magot Companies? Is it that it goes against the grain like when you cutting a board ? Fine Them!!!!
Far too many are paid to be career unemployed . Then illegals have to come in and do the work . Perhaps we could look into an exchange program to swap them out . This would be a win-win situation .
"Why doesn't Workers Compensation check and see if they are illegal or not ? "
It is the employer who bears liability for hiring illegal aliens. An employer has the duty to hire American applicants over illegals. If you have been denied a job because it was given to an illegal alien, you have a right to sue for damages. Get a lawyer!
It is also the employer who has an obligation to provide workers' compensation insurance. When insurance companies stand to lose they insert a clause in the policy that employers should not hire illegal employees.
This entire problem could have been averted long ago had the the Reagan and Bush regimes imposed employer sanctions against companies that made it a practice to hire illegal aliens.
@Springman- In Ohio, workers compensation insurance is purchased through the Ohio BWC, unlike most states where employers buy it through private insurance plans. Even larger employers who have 500+ employees and are self-funded still have it administered through them.
You also seem to forget the 8 years of the Clinton administration who also did nothing as NOBAMA is doing now.
WE NEED TO SECURE OUR BORDERS NOW AND STOP THIS INFLOW OF ILLEGALS!
I agree with you and timothy that employers should be heavily fined for hiring these people, say maybe $10,000 for each violation. That should eliminate the incentive to hire them!
"WE NEED TO SECURE OUR BORDERS NOW AND STOP THIS INFLOW OF ILLEGALS!"
Dream on . . ..
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