I don’t know what the Workman’s Comp laws are in places that use “petrol,” but here in Georgia an assault on a female employee by a co-worker, robber or customer, including rape, would be a WC claim
…unless it could be shown the attack was the result of an outside relationship. If that’s the case, the employee might be only on the hook for faulty security systems.
I sure hope she doesn’t take cabs on roads with potholes, or there might be some Pulp Fiction action going on.
Remind me never to be in whatever ZIP code you’re in at any given moment.
Usually, if you’re in a car with a handgun pointed at the driver and your finger on the trigger, you’re not planning to pay for the ride.
The driver certainly shouldn’t count on a tip.
And god help him if he tries to shake her hand after the ride.
The first time I read this, I thought “my God, she’s so… exaggerated”. Then a while later I remembered that the two times I’ve been in a licensed cab that looked like it came from the set of a Snake Plissen movie, driven by guys who probably shouldn’t be allowed in the company of women, it was in Philadelphia.
There are some damn scary cabbies there.
She also posted that handshakes by a male are akin to rape, so your first thoughts aren’t far off.
Come on, finger off the trigger until you’re ready to fire. Have fun shooting yourself in the thigh.
Imagine being sixteen years old, having barely enough money to cover your fare home, and one of those cabbies asks if you “like to party.”
So what? WC benefits are pretty poor compensation for being shot or raped.
Perhaps the problem is far too much imagining.
I was suggesting the previous poster consider the scenario. I, on the other hand do not need to imagine, I have already had the experience of being sexually propositioned by a cabbie while a teenager. It was an event that caused me to carry a concealed handgun legal or not.
If you enjoyed “being sexually propositioned by a cabbie while a teenager”, you’re going to love “prison sentence for illegal firearm”!
The alternative is for the medical costs to come out of your own insurance, adding [del]insult[/del] injury to injury.
What does that have to do with the thread topic?
So you don’t like to party?
My original point was that women service workers (cashiers, cabbies) are at greater risk from assailants posing as customers than are female customers from male service workers (NOT to say that risk is nonexistant*)
bengangmo concurred that he did not put female cashiers on the night shift for this reason
(Point of fact: while women are a small fraction of workplace injuries in the US, they are the majority of workplace violence victims. That’s more important than men who may have to wait for the livery services make drivers being victims of economic misandry: is what my part in the debate is)
Workplace violence is 100% covered by the employers WC insurance, required for any business with more than 3 employees.
No, WC insurance won’t “un-rape” you. But you didn’t think that when sympathetic victims like raped women or abused kids show up at the ER, they waive their fee?
*this poster’s SO had been frottage-assaulted by a Tehran bellboy in 1977. He couldn’t be held to account because he was SAVAK’s eyes for the building.
I didn’t think about it at all, and I doubt anyone else did. Paying medical bills is like the 14th thing people generally worry about after they are the victim of a rape or battery.
Beyond that, workers’ compensation coverage is (1) not required in every state, (2) not required under the same circumstances in every state, and (3) does not cover all or even most workplace assaults in every jurisdiction.
Comments like that perfectly illustrate why many women want women only services and service providers.