What happens if you get fired while on workers’ compensation in Georgia?

Workers’ Compensation Attorney Thomas W. Herman of The Law Firm of Westmoreland, Patterson, Moseley, and Hinson in Macon, Ga. answers the question:

So the question is what happens if I get fired on workers compensation in Georgia?

Short answer is nothing. It does not affect your right to receive workers compensation benefits. Your employer cannot terminate your right to draw workers’ compensation by terminating you. Don’t quit. Make them terminate you.

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