National Workers' Compensation Act

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] National Workers' Compensation Act - Declares it to be the finding of Congress that existing State workers' compensation laws fail to provide adequate, prompt, and equitable protection to workers and the families of workers injured or killed on the job. States that it is the purpose of Congress: (1) to establish federally guaranteed workers' compensation benefits for employees in the States and to establish administrative requirements for State workers' compensation agencies; (2) to establish appropriate procedures for enforcement of such benefits while maintaining State workers' compensation systems; and (3) to encourage and provide technical and financial assistance to the States to make improvements in their existing workers' compensation programs designed (a) to provide all workers and their families an adequate, prompt, and equitable system of workers' compensation in the event they suffer work-related disabling injury, disease, or death, and (b) to restore disabled workers through medical, vocational rehabilitation services to the fullest physical, mental, and economic usefulness of which they are capable. States that the provisions of this Act shall apply to all employers an…