Massachusetts Workers' Compensation Law (Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 152, §§1(7A), 26 (2020) allows workers to receive compensation benefits for infectious disease if their job exposes them to the disease; however, the fact that your job exposes you is not sufficient to enjoy compensation benefits. You must be able to show that you have been infected by the infectious disease to make claims. Sadly, the case is different for COVID-19 as there's little or no way of proving you got infected on the job. A few states have compensation benefits for healthcare workers and COVID-19 responders. Unfortunately, Massachusetts isn't one of the states that have adopted this compensation plan.