I just had a short meeting where my boss told us the alarming news that our workers’ compensation (AKA Workforce Safety and Insurance) bill was doubling. All my boss got with the awful news was a little sheet from the state agency blaming the increase on the economic crisis. The sheet said that some businesses might be losing discounts amount to 62% which would work out to an 150% premium increase.
Sure right. Bad managers are good at finding excuses.
We know that in the last couple of years the trial lawyers and labor leaders have been doing a full court press to go after the most efficient workers compensation system in the country. They were successful in emasculating the anti-fraud program that was keeping premiums low while helping out those that generally were hurt on the job.
The jihad against Workforce Safety was when they were able to press a successful politically motivated prosecution of the executive director of Workforce Safety.
During this time, Governor John Hoeven who says he’s in favor of creating jobs, was AWOL. That’s right when the special interests were advancing the cause of people faking workplace injuries John Hoeven was all but hiding behind his mothers skirt.
Workers compensation was a real competitive advantage for the state to attract real jobs. That’s opposed to the jobs that the government rents for a while until their program runs out and the welfare-corporation relocates to somewhere else for the free money. If you want real economic growth you address the real costs of doing business.
But not in North Dakota. In North Dakota you hand out money to special interests, call it economic development and let the real assets slip away.
Anyone know what’s really going on with this increase?
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