Ohio rep doesn’t want ‘illegal aliens...sucking on our workers’ comp system’
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Posted May 18, 2017 at 10:06 AM Updated May 18, 2017 at 1:46 PM
By Jim Siegel
The Columbus Dispatch
A House Republican proposal to block undocumented workers who get hurt on the job from accessing workers’ compensation benefits sparked a passionate Ohio House debate Wednesday.
Calling it a “dangerous, illogical provision,” said Rep. Dan Ramos, D-Lorain, said the proposal, part of the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation budget, will punish injured workers and actually encourage the hiring of undocumented workers by shielding employers from liability for an injury.
“Why would we want to actively make it cheaper and easier to hire undocumented workers and then actively make it easier for those people to have unsafe working conditions?” said Ramos, the longest-serving Latino state officeholder in Ohio history.
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