Proposal would change Nebraska workers’ compensation waiting periods

If enacted, workers would receive no compensation for the first seven calendar days of disability, with payment beginning on the eighth day when the disability lasts longer. The rule applies to disability covered by Nebraska’s Workers’ Compensation Act, including partial days counted as full calendar days. The seven-day waiting period is subject to the exception in section 48-120. If disability lasts six weeks or longer, compensation would be computed from the date the disability began. The bill was indefinitely postponed, and the supplied text does not state an effective date.