Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!world!bzs From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: What is private information? Message-ID: Date: 13 Jan 91 16:00:23 GMT References: <6750001@hp-vcd.HP.COM> <3566@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> <5775@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> <14285@milton.u.washington.edu> Sender: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein) Organization: The World Lines: 24 In-Reply-To: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu's message of 13 Jan 91 00:10:48 GMT From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) >People applying for work are regularly denied employment based on past >filings for workers compensation (injuries on the job), but the evidence >is apochryphal...it seldom makes it into print! Although we can dicker about the use of the term "regularly" I find this a little hard to believe in general. The purpose of Worker's Comp is to make sure you get NO MORE than $1000 (e.g.) for your lost finger, eye, etc. It establishes a "fair rate" for recompense for various injuries. I would expect it is people who have refused to accept worker's comp settlements and sued to be avoided by employers. But people who quietly accept their $5000 for the hand that got cut off by the unsafe bandsaw would generally be considered desireable (other than their one-handedness perhaps...) You can chop them into little pieces and you know in advance the limits of your liability. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die | {xylogics,uunet}!world!bzs | bzs@world.std.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: 617-739-0202 | Login: 617-739-WRLD