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The key take-away remains LC’s analysis of the term workman based on past Supreme Court judgments and rationale behind determining whether an employee despite holding title as a manager may be considered a workman as per IDA
[This piece has been published in Restoring America to highlight the importance of investing in our military for our own national security.]
In recent comments on the defense budget, Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., rightly declared the standard for determining an appropriate level of defense funding should be the ability to adequately deter China. Unfortunately, too many statesmen have underestimated China’s intentions to supplant the U.S. and current rules-based order, while political leadership has preferred to defer tough budget choices to a comfortable future.
Power is abused when there is no accountability which is precisely what section 6 affords to trigger-happy army officers who shoot first and ask later. The AFSPA and the right to life of those who live in the North-East are anti-thetical. One has to subsume the other, which is why the AFSPA must be replaced with a more humanitarian law.
Given the dangers posed by China, Congress wisely is likely to set aside Biden’s inadequate defense budget and raise it in a number of areas.