With two weeks remaining in the 2012 Legislative Session, important business priorities remain unresolved. Two bills that would address issues with worker’s compensation (preventing employees from suing each other in workplace accident situations, and continuing to provide coverage for occupational diseases within the worker’s compensation system) are pending in the Missouri Senate.  HB 1403 addresses both of these issues while HB 1540 would only fix the co-employee lawsuit i

April 12 – Well, as you can tell by the headline, it has been a very busy 24 hours! Our tax cut bill, HB 1639, sponsored by Representative Jerry Nolte, advanced from the House Rules Our standalone whistle-blower bill that will protect employees that are alerting authorities to truly illegal acts by their employer, HB 2099, sponsored by Rep. Kevin Elmer, has advanced from committee and will be sent to the House Rules Committee.  Also, a committee substitute for SB 592, with th