Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act

A federal law designed to provide workers'-compensation benefits to persons, other than seamen, who work in maritime occupations, esp. stevedoring and ship service. 33 USCA § 901. - Abbr. LHWCA. "Employees who are engaged in maritime-related activities but who do not qualify as 'seamen' may be classified as 'maritime workers' entitled to the benefits provided by the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act . . . . Persons covered by the act, which has the attributes of the usual workers' compensation law, include (1) employees injured on the Outer Continental Shelf in the course of mineral exploration and production activities, and (2) employees within American territorial waters who fall within the Congressional definition of a 'maritime worker,' and who are injured on 'navigable waters'." Frank L. Maraist, Admiralty in a Nutshell 44 (2d ed. 1988).

Worker

One who labors to attain an end; esp., a person employed to do work for another.

Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act

A federal law that requires an employer to provide notice of a plant closing or mass layoff, 60 days before the closing or layoff, to the employees, the state-dislocated-workers unit, and the chief elected official of the unit of local government where the plant closing or layoff is to occur. 29 USCA §§ 2101-2109. -Abbr. WARN.

and workers'-compensation claims arising out of commerce on or over water. - Also termed (in senses 2 & 3) admiralty law. - admiralty, adj.

migrant worker

Int'Z law. A person who works seasonally as an agricultural laborer in a foreign country.

workers' compensation

A system of providing benefits to an employee for injuries occurring in the scope of employment. ( Most workers' compensation statutes both hold the employer strictly liable and bar the employee from suing in tort. - Also termed workmen's compensation; employers' liability. - Abbr. WC "Workers' compensation laws were designed to provide employees with expansive protection against the consequences of employment related injuries Injured workers no longer had to establish negligence attributable to their employer in order to obtain legal redress They merely had to demonstrate that their conditions arose out of and during the course of their employment "Mark A Rothstein et al Employment law 7.3 at 406 (1994)

workers'-compensation board

An agency that reviews cases arising under workers'-compensation statutes and administers the related rules and regulations. - Also termed workers'compensation commission.