Worker's or Workers Comp?

It seems that the full moon has brought out both my blonde-ness and my 100%
Polish heritage. ;-)

Why isn't it "Worker's" compensation? You aren't compensating all of them,
just ones that are injured. What makes it even more confusing to me is that
it used to be "Workmans Compensation." Shouldn't that be -men if they
really meant it to be plural?

The website http://www.workerscompensation.com/ doesn't help me - they use
Workers, Workers' and Worker's.
Unfortunately, I've overthought this and made quite a convincing case for
both with and without the apostrophe - can somebody clear this up? It seems
I wonder about this every 6 years or so but this time it's really making me
crazy.

-Christie
(Rest assured that once somebody posts an answer, I'm going to slap my
forehead and be embarrassed that this is forever on the internet attached to
my name, but at least I won't lose sleep pondering this!)


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