New law boosts benefits for families of workers who died from COVID-19 April 20, 2021
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Spouses of “essential workers” who contracted and died from COVID-19 will be entitled to expanded benefits under a measure Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law on April 19.
The legislation is the latest effort by lawmakers to expand the rights of workers who stayed on the job during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic last year and the waves of outbreaks that have since transpired.
One of the state’s largest unions, the New Jersey chapter of the AFL-CIO, praised the bill.
Under Senate Bill 2476, families would get increased benefits through the worker’s compensation system. Families of essential workers who died from COVID-19 would be entitled to the cost-of-living adjustments typically afforded to the spouses of public safety workers – firefighters or police officers – who were killed in action.
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Two FSU faculty earn Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor honor
Two Florida State University faculty members, one a scholar of Shakespeare and the other a nuclear astrophysicist, will be given the highest honor that the faculty bestow upon their own – they will each be named a Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor.
Professor of Physics Jorge Piekarewicz and Professor of English Gary Taylor have been selected to receive the honor for 2021-2022. Both professors are from the College of Arts and Sciences, FSU’s largest and most academically diverse college.
The Lawton Distinguished Professor Award was first presented in 1957 as the Distinguished Professor Award. It was renamed in honor of the late Vice President for Academic Affairs Robert O. Lawton in 1981.