workmen’s compensation

workmen’s compensation
(also infml workmen’s comp) n [U]
(in the US) payments made to a person who is injured while at work or who becomes ill because of his work. To protect their workers, employers are required by law to pay money into a workmen’s compensation insurance scheme run by the US government. The system began in 1908:

Sam had to spend a week in bed, but workmen’s comp covered it.

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