Recessions are bad for workers safety

 

OCTOBER 13, 2011 Workers Underreport Accidents to Avoid Layoffs A worker is 0.15 percentage points more likely to be laid off if he or she has reported an accident within the past 12 months, according to a team led by Jan Boone of Tilburg University in the Netherlands that studied records in Austria from 2000-2006. Thus it's understandable that during a recession, workers are more reluctant to report accidents. Increasing a company's layoff rate by 1 standard deviation leads to a 2.1% decrease in the probability that workers will report accidents, the researchers say. Source: Recessions are bad for workplace safety