Workers' compensation in California is way too high
Our businesses are moving away because we're not competitive in worker's compensation. There is tremendous fraud here and all those kind of things. I'll create real worker's compensation.
Cut the costs in half. That's what we need to do. I visited companies here in California. I visited the farmers and the small companies, big companies, vendors and all this stuff.
Every one is saying the same thing. That workers' compensation is way too high. We're paying three times the amount of the national average.
And so no matter where I go in the state, it is the same thing, that workers' compensation is killing businesses. And we have to stop and reverse that.
The day I am sworn in, I will call a special session of the Legislature to reform our inefficient and costly workers' compensation system. I will order an outside, independent audit of the state budget so we can get a clear picture-
uncluttered by politics and special interest influence-of how we can bring spending under control without neglecting our most important obligations. And I will send a message to the political class that it will no longer be business as usual.
Source: Campaign website, JoinArnold.com
Aug 29, 2003
