Worker's Compensation

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Do You Want COVID-19 with That?:Public Nuisance and Worker Protections at McDonald’s
Simon Jacobs
Simon Jacobs is a J.D. Candidate in the University of Chicago Law School Class of 2022 and served as a Comments Editor for Volume 89 of the University of Chicago Law Review. This Essay was the winning essay of the Public Citizen’s 2021 Hogan/Smoger Access to Justice Essay Competition.

He thanks Professor Kate Andrias, Sarah Cohen, Deborah Malamud, Matthew Reade, Tamara Skinner, and the University of Chicago Law Review Online team.

Ieshia Townsend was scared to return home after her job at a South Side McDonald’s, she said at a rally for frontline workers in downtown Chicago: she could infect her children with coronavirus.