Injured While Working as a Probationary Employee and Afraid to Speak Up

 

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Well, there's two components to that, right? So, I understand if you're on probation why you might be a little bit afraid to file a claim, but on a common sense point of view, I would say to somebody if it's a significant injury, obviously, you got to take care of it. Also, people on probation a lot of times don't have health insurance yet. So, all the more reason. So, workers comp will take care of it. You'll be paid workers comp and they'll pay you medical right away. We have a case where a guy

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literally was getting an orientation at a car dealership and as he walked into the car dealership before he did a minute's worth of work, he fell, broke his back, had back surgery, never went back to work ever. He's covered once you're on the clock, once you're on the premises, you are covered. So, can they terminate you? Can they end your job? Yeah, they probably can. I mean, there are things we can go into in depth, but yeah, they probably can. But when the injury is significant, it doesn't

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matter. And you are covered. You're covered from the second that you begin the work process. So, you know, you got to protect yourself. The the companies protect themselves. It's really important that you protect yourself as well as the companies protect themselves.

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