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Selatius

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19. Some companies like Walmart take out "dead peasants" insurance on their own employees.

Reply to alp227 (Reply #6)

Thu May 9, 2013, 12:55 PM

May 2013

So if an employee dies on the job, the corporation gets a payout from insurance for the death. Even in death, some workers are not released from employer obligations, I guess.

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