The O’Farrell Government is planning changes to Workers Compensation. Under the changes: you won’t be covered on the way to and from work; your pay will drop while you are recovering; if you can’t recover quickly enough, medical bills and weekly payments will be cut off completely.
The only ones these changes will benefit are the insurance companies.
Don’t let him get away with it.
Don’t let Barry get away with the workers comp changes!
How O’Farrell’s Workers Comp cuts will affect you
Two Bills introduced by the O’Farrell Government are the biggest attacks on injured workers’ rights in a generation.
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Make sure you protest! Power is in numbers!
Sourced by John McPhilbin
More info can be found on the Unions NSW website: http://www.nswforall.org.au/
Shortlink: http://aworkcovervictimsdiary.com/?p=10037
Just thinking about all the NSW nurses out there, those who work those long, terribly tiring 12 hour shifts (day and night shifts) and drive home half asleep, completely exhausted… what will happen them when they have an accident on the way home from work? What will happen to them when they are on call (i.e. ICU) and drive to work in the middle of the night and hit a tree? And, look at this article, hospitals are more dangerous than construction:
NURSES, doctors and community service workers feel less confident about health and safety in their jobs than construction workers, according to a national survey.
The findings about workplace attitudes towards health and safety come from a five-year study of more than 8000 workers by the University of Sydney in partnership with the Australian Research Council and Unions NSW.
Sydney University research director Professor John Buchanan unveiled the findings at a workplace health forum in Sydney today.
“I think there’s a stereotype about what an unsafe workplace is – it’s a coal mine which is going to fall on top of people, or they’re going to get poisoning of some kind, or fall off a multi-storey building,” he said.
“But the hazards of work are far more subtle these days.”
The study found one in four, or 25.3 per cent, of health and community workers believe their work is unsafe, compared to only 22.7 per cent of the construction employees surveyed.
“Being a nurse or doctor in the public health system is one of the most stressful places to be, but most people don’t see it like that,” he said.
“Most people don’t realise that in the health system, it’s the good will of those professions which is holding the show together, and they can’t do it forever and their health is suffering.”
The research also indicated that male employees were twice as likely as female employees to have a workers’ compensation claim.
The top three occupations for compensible injury and disease among men were labourers (25 per cent), trades workers and technicians (21 per cent) and intermediate production and transport workers (18 per cent).
For women, clerical and sales employees had the most compensible injuries and diseases (27 per cent), followed by labourers (20 per cent) and professionals (18 per cent).
The findings also revealed that only 17 per cent of workers are confident they won’t get injured or sick from work.
A key factor behind that perception was a lack of trust in management, Professor Buchanan said.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/business/your-business/hospitals-more-dangerous-than-construction/story-fn7ve51s-1226403084577
Barry O’Farrell puts the boot into injured workers
IT’S hardest for Tom Rigby when his young boys want to go out and kick around the footy with him.
Four years ago he was working on the Kurnell desalination plant when he was crushed by a 300 tonne crane. Today he is missing half a foot, muscles from his thigh and half his abdomen.
He doubts he could get a job in the same industry again. While he waits, the medical costs pile up, and he watches his five kids grow up.
“My boys are at the age where they are starting to play rugby and it is hard not being able to get out there with them – when they want their dad to go out and play football it’s not possible,” he said.
His regular medical bills include compression stockings, medication and prosthetics for his foot.
With the new caps on weekly benefits and medical costs, the future is uncertain.
“If I had my accident now it would be devastating. I would have lost everything if I lost medical payments,” he said.
“There is no hope for injured workers now, and you are already treated like a criminal just because you are injured.”
Wendy Lark from the Workplace Tragedy Group was at state parliament yesterday protesting against the changes to the entitlements of families of injured workers who will no longer be eligible to claim compensation for nervous shock or pain and suffering.
She said this was cruel – and would leave many families suffering.
“Politicians are blind to the tragedies that families actually undergo,” she said.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/sydney-news/barry-ofarrell-puts-the-boot-into-injured-workers/story-e6freuzi-1226401638231
Your lower than a snakes belly Fatty O’Barrel. why don’t you start robbing graves, You have shown your true colors.