Is a farm worker entitled to the same workmen's compensation benefits as other workers?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Rios v. Oregon Automobile Insurance Company, 477 F.2d 288 (9th Cir. 1973):
It may well be that farmworkers generally get lower benefits than other workers because they earn less. But such economic discrimination in social welfare legislation is justified by a "reasonable basis" for the distinction. Dandridge v. Williams, 397 U.S. 471, 90 S.Ct. 1153, 25 L.Ed.2d 491 (1970). It is permissible for the Oregon legislature to scale workmen's compensation benefits to wages earned.
Affirmed.
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