Column: In GOP plan, you can't sue your employers for giving you COVID — but they can sue you
If you were looking for evidence that Republicans in Congress have no sympathy for workers facing illness or worse from the coronavirus pandemic, look past the party's proposal to cut unemployment benefits.
Instead, focus on the provision in its coronavirus relief bill that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., calls a must-have in any bill that passes: It's liability protection for employers whose employees get sick at work.
This proposal has received scant attention in coverage of the GOP plan. But it's more vicious than you could possibly imagine.
The GOP proposal would erect almost insurmountable obstacles to lawsuits by workers who become infected with the coronavirus at their workplaces.
It would absolve employers of responsibility for taking any but the most minimal steps to make their workplaces safe. It would preempt tough state workplace
