The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-18
NEW COMPENSATION CLAUSES
 BECOMING EFFECTIVE JULY SIMPLIFY WAGE COLLECTION
Laborer to Get Wage for Day of Injury Child Labor
 Gets Additional Compe nsation and Writs Can Be
 Issued to Attach Employers who have not insured

At the last session of the 'Legis1a-
 ture. many important changes were made in the Compensation Act. These changes take effect July l, 1917, ana all accidents which occur after twelve
 CPD o'clock midnight June 30, 1917. come under the act as amended. but all accidents occurring prior to that time must be adjusted under the pres- ent Compensation Law. EdWard T. Buckingham, Compensation Commits sioner for this district. upon being asked to state what the important amendments to the act were, explain ed the law as follows:
 1.-TWO of the most important changes in the Compensation Act were the reducing of the waiting per- iod from ten days to seven days. and increasing of the maximum compen- sation from $10 to $14. Under the amendments, an injured employee is entitled to receive full wages for the entire day of his injury, irrespective of the time of day when the accident occurred If the injury incapacitates the man immediately, for seven days following the injury there is no com pensation, the compensation begin ming on the eighth day of incapacity.
 Under. the old compensation law, the minimum was $5 and the maxi mum was $10. while under the amendments the minimum remains the same, and the maximum is in creased to STA, so that a man aver aging $2S. a week or over, will now receive $14, where he originally re- ceived only $10, and a man averaging between $1O and $2S will receive one half of his average wages.
 In the cases of employees under Is years of age, who are injured, the following amendment has been pass ed: "For the purpose of determining the amount of compensation to be paid in the case of minor under the age of. eighteen years who has sus- tained an injury entitling him to com
 pensation for total or partial incapac- iry for a period of fifty-two or more weeks, or to specific indemnity for
 any of the injuries enumerated in tsub-sections (a) to (D, both 1nclu- sive, of the last preceding section, the |commissioner may add fifty per cent. to his average weekly wages"
 This amendment was passed in or der to give the Commissioner the au- thority if necessary, to increase com
 pensAtion in the cases of young boys and girls receiving serious injuries, se / and earning small wages.
 The question often arises as to the authority of the Commissioners in
 cases where agreements for compen- sation have been signed, and there | has been a misunderstanding whereby the injured employee is not receiving
 the amount to which he is entitled, or the employer is paying more than is required. In order to take care of
 cases of this kind, and to give the Commissioner the authority to pre- serve the rights of all parties even af- ter agreements have been signed, the following amendment was passed "The Compensation Commissioner shall retain Jurisdiction over claims for compensation. awards and Volun- tary agreements. for any proper ac- ton theron, during the whole com pensation period applicable to the in jury in question"
 1 On many instances payments fol
 compensation have been stopped ano the injured ernploye has not been in- 1 formed of the reason, and has applied 1 to the Commissioner for information
 relative to his case. The Commissions CT has been unable to inform him why compensation was stopped, without l waiting to here from either employer
 or insurance company. In order; that the office of the Commissioner may keep informed at all times about compensation cases, and payments 1T l connection with same, the following amendment was passed: Before dis. continuing payments on account o1 total or partial incapacity under any such agreement, the employer shal lnotify the commissioner and the eTn pIoye of the discontinuance of sucf payments with the date of such dis continuance and the reason therefor and until such notices are sent to the commissioner and said employe, the liability for such payments shall con tinue unless otherwise ordered by the I Conrnissio
 Often an emp1oye Is unable to learr from his superintendent or foreman whether his employer is insured .un- der the CompenSation Act or not, ant i in many cases the office of the Com I missioner has no record that wil show who carries the compensation insurance of a certain employer. II order that the Commissioner may bs 1 in a position to give this inforna, l ton. upon request, the following I amendment has been passed: An. lempIoyer who has insured his full lia fbility may file certificate setting forth such fact and stating the dats I or expiration of such insurance which certificate shall thereupon be come a part of the record of the of flee of said Compensation Commis sioner."
 | In order that an injured enployt who Is working for an employer wht has neglected or refused to comply with the provision of the Compensa ton Act, may be protected, the Com missioner is authorized to issue wSit. of attachment by the following amendment: Whenever any perso1 shall present in writing to the com missioner a claim for compensation either for injury sustained by himsels |arising out of and in the course of hi employment or for injury resulting 4l in the death of some person of whom he is an alleged dependent, he ma. | ask that writ of attachment issue t,
 secure the payment of such claim O I claims for compensation as may. aris out of such injury. Unless it shal Il appear from the records of said com pensation commissioner that ther has been compliance with the pro visions of section twenty-nine or sec ton thirty, which compliance is thel effective, said compensation comrnis
 sioner may issue a writ of attach fr @