NSW Workers Comp Changes Dubbed a 'Bandaid Solution'

NSW workers comp changes dubbed a 'bandaid solution'

With dissent mounting, tensions are set to escalate within caucus and close stakeholders, including the unions.

Australia: NSW Labor government moves to slash workers’ compensation

This is an attack on the fundamental premise of workers’ compensation legislation—that employers are financially responsible for workplace injuries, illness and death.

Unions demand NSW Labor rethink its changes to workers’ compensation

New South Wales Labor is planning to scrap workers’ right to access compensation for psychological injuries caused at work. Isaac Nellist reports.

The government wants to change the rules: – It is not good that the most dangerous professions are the worst covered – We cannot have it so that those who have the most dangerous and hardest jobs have the worst coverage, says the Labor Party's Tone Berge Hansen to Nettavisen. She is the rapporteur on the matter and confirms that there is now broad political agreement in the Storting to change the rules for occupational injuries. Have weaker rig…

“Wiping its hands of injured nurses”: Backlash to proposed cuts to workers’ comp

Compensation payments for psychological injuries will cut off after two and a half years, unless an injured worker can prove they will be significantly impaired for life, under a bid to overhaul the workers compensation scheme. Workers and employers were given their first glimpse at the potential changes after the Minns government released its exposure draft for the new Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment Bill on May 9. A parliamentary in…

“Wiping its hands of injured nurses”: Backlash to NSW govt proposed cuts to workers’ comp - Aged Care Insite

Compensation payments for psychological injuries will cut off after two and a half years, unless an injured worker can prove they will be significantly impaired for life, under a bid to overhaul the workers compensation scheme. Workers and employers were given their first glimpse at the potential changes after the Minns government released its exposure draft for the new Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment Bill on May 9. A parliamentary in…