Workers Compensation - Health Professionals & Allied Employees
 

Workers Compensation

Workers’ compensation provides medical treatment, wage replacement and permanent disability compensation to employees who suffer work-related injuries or illnesses, and death benefits to dependents of workers who have died as a result of their employment.

HPAE local officers, Reps, and staff can assist and support HPAE members who have work-related injuries or illnesses. In addition, HPAE members may have additional negotiated benefits that are included in collective bargaining agreements.

For more information on the New Jersey workers’ compensation system, please click on the link below:

Factsheet for Workers’ Compensation in New Jersey

HPAE strongly supports the “Thomas P Canzanella 21st Century First Responders Protection Act”, S264, which serves to ensure that workers’ compensation coverage for public safety workers – including nurses and healthcare workers – is appropriately provided without long costly legal battles. Along with law enforcement officers, firefighters and first aid personnel, nurses and EMS personnel provide emergency medical care during a public health crisis, catastrophic incidents and infectious disease outbreaks.

As both paid and volunteer First Responders, these men and women respond to catastrophic incidents, often without knowing the specific exposures they face to toxins or carcinogens. Many of the dangerous substances or toxins First Responders come in contact with can cause serious, life-long illnesses and even death. Instead of gaining coverage and protection from our workers’ compensation system, First Responders often have to fight long costly legal battles to prove the link between their exposure and subsequent illnesses, some of which can take years to present. That is why we support S264.

 

News

HPAE releases statement on Texas school shooting
May 25 2022

This tragic moment calls on us all to be compassionate not just to the families of 19 children and two adults senselessly killed yesterday in Uvalde, Texas, but also to the anguished soul of an 18-year-old who perpetrated this tragedy.

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HPAE congratulates Newark Mayor Baraka on his re-election
May 12 2022

Emerson, NJ—HPAE members congratulate Ras Baraka on his re-election as mayor of the great city of Newark. Mayor Baraka has been a friend and partner in the struggle to empower healthcare workers, especially at Newark’s University Hospital. HPAE members at

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Violence at Bergen Regional Medical Center targeted
May 19 2016

From The Record Bergen County Executive James Tedesco called Wednesday for sweeping action to stem the violence at Bergen Regional Medical Center, including assigning more police to the facility, ordering the hospital to hire consultants to assess safety and patient

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