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Teachers Deserve Better: How the Workers’ Compensation System Deprives Educators
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Teacher’s Deserve Better: How the Workers’ Compensation System Cheats Educators We are blessed to have so many committed teachers who devote countless hours and energy to educating our children. We all know our teachers are underpaid. What many teachers we work with don’t know is just how underpaid they are if injured at work. Under South Carolina law, a worker who is out of work as a result of a job injury is not entitled to compensation in the same amount that he/she was making. Instead, the worker is entitled to weekly payments of 2/3 of her “average weekly wage.” South Carolina Code of...
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