Attorney Gary Massey addresses whether employers may be responsible for Covid in the workplace

Attorney Gary Massey addresses whether employers may be responsible for Covid in the workplace

Chip chapman for me to come up is how do you know where you contracted the disease.

And so you know there are a lot of people who in their job have to travel to different places no delivery people, repair people, service industry type jobs where you are in and out of different voices and what will make a lot of sense, but she would probably still have to eliminate other sources that you didn't get home you getting her personal life and that might be a pretty hopper and companies big and small are all handling the scop and crisis ... is pandemic differently ... .

Some of the companies you think it would do the right thing by their employees or not and the reverse is also true just to set the record straight as far as code is concerned, th laws have not changed, but there's really no new walls addressing how ... a case is handled where a perso gets covert, 19 it affects thei job or they can get it at work there.

You know, there's just nothing that's come from the government that i've seen the changes that but you still have the same old place white worker's compensation like family medical leave white adults with disabilities act.

You know that are still in plac that would apply to a situation like one of the pioneering firms in the cereal it comes to dealing with elder abuse.

A lot loved ones, friends that are in a nursing home or extend the living kind of facility are you seeing an uptick in the amount of cases concerning elder abuse since this pandemic is set in.

We are were seeing a significan increase in the number of calls that we get people are really concerned and dissatisfied with the care of their loved one is getting in and i i can give you exact percentages but i know that were getting a lot of call and seeing a lot.

Essential cases in and i don't know if it's because the of the different facilities are really stretched thin and having trouble you know with staffing they always had trouble stabbing.

They've always try to keep their staffing stretches things they can and maybe it's gotten worse but but were getting a lot of complaints about their loved ones.

People loved ones not getting appropriate care, at least in the loved ones opinion and it's really difficult to know becaus you can be inside the facility exactly almost any of and not always facilities have a window even where you can walk and ... look at all look at dad or literature in ... so that's certainly a trying situation but but obviously there comes alive when the nursing facility crosses that line, that's where you get involved is for as abuse is concerned and abuse can take many forms, whether it's physical, mental, emotional, and what is the what is the one thing i guess if you now that those of us on the outside ... need to be looking for ... her role in well there are a few really big red flag.

Things like severe weight loss, dehydration, which causes a lack of ability to communicate.

You know a loss of cognition.

They call it, but of were persons mind is not working will ask from a lack of food or lack of drink, oftentimes another one that we really seem really ofte is bedsores.

When a person is not getting the type of treatment if they're confined t bed if they're not able to take himself to the bathroom.

They'r not getting the type of changes that they need the type of claiming that they need to call the skin break you know him now more than ever you have to be the patient's advocate have to be the one ... it's not easy with the pandemic and the rules.

A lot of these facilities have, but you have to be the patient's advocate and caregiver, even though you are doing it from the family involvement is the is the biggest preventative measure.

Very good to see was always wil visit with you again here in a couple of weeks and we hope you will stay with us here on, let's chat you can get in touch with gary and the gang at nasa get associates out of the highway.