Worker's Compensation Reform

[From the Official NYS Governor Website]:

Governor Eliot Spitzer, Lieutenant Governor David Paterson and legislative leaders today announced a landmark agreement to reform the state’s workers’ compensation system.

[From the Official NYS Assembly Website]:

In simplest terms, this agreement is really about jobs; more jobs, more opportunity, especially in our Upstate cities, towns and villages.

This agreement is about working families and the moral obligation we share to ensure their security when their "bread winners" are injured while on the job.

Via Confidential Capitol: Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick, doing his best version of “la, la la; I’m not listening,” during today’s workers compensation reform press conference.

Via New York Observer Politicker: Tin Cup Day.

Some details of the deal of the Worker's Compensation Reform with the biggest concern that the proposed caps on cash benefits for permanent partial disabilities will take away the much needed economic safety net for those workers whose partial disabilities effectively preclude them from competitive employment.

Lastly, via NYT.com,

James Tedisco, the Republican minority leader of the Assembly, said, “When you have good leadership, and you have leadership that says, ‘We want everybody’s ideas, opinions, we’ll return to your calls, we’ll listen to your ideas’ — boy, you’re going to have big success.”