Understandably, when a worker is injured (or sick) and when their condition is affecting their ability or capacity to work, they must provide their employer (and workcover) with a “certificate of capacity” from their treating doctor or care provider, such as a physiotherapist, every 28 days (unless special permission given by their insurer to provide [...]
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Employers incl RTW Coordinators are not allowed to attend doctors appointments
aworkcovervictimsdiary received a shocking email from an injured worker last night, whose employer (a large public hospital) insisted that the injured worker’s “return to work coordinator” be allowed to attend the injured worker’s medical appointment with his specialist orthopedic surgeon, in order “to clarify” the injured worker’s “current fitness for work” status with the surgeon! [...]
A Game For Injured Workers And Their Supporters
A Game For Injured Workers And Their Supporters It’s Called: Whispering Up A Storm In the Workover Here’s a way you can spend 15 minutes on line, getting really angry, vent mightily while acting empowered and whispering in the Workover. It’s based on the idea that many whispers will grow into a storm [...]
Can I resign when I am on workcover?
Further to “Jax” question asking whether work (or workcover) is liable to pay his weekly payments, now that he has resigned from his job, we trolled our books and the web to find an answer, with an explanation. Well, ahum, the “bad’ news is that resigning from your job with your pre-injury employer “for reasons [...]
When It’s In The Workover, Bullying can be Masked as Incompetence.
When It’s In The Workover, Bullying can be Masked as Incompetence. At the moment, I’m engaged in a struggle with my Claims Management over my FOI requests, and my request for retraining. Both these struggles have been initiated by my personal requests. Neither should present cause for struggle. I have the right to obtain all [...]
WorkSafe launches “new” campaign – RTW now or else you will get mentally ill!
Oh dear, check this out, Workcover Victoria (WorkSafe) has launched a brand spanking “new” campaign today to get injured sods back to work pronto because “the longer injured workers are off the more likely they are to require psychiatric and psychological help“. Needless to mention that RTW and rehabilitation strategies are , again, gaining priority over [...]
Vocational re-education (retraining courses) under workcover
Further to Survivor’s post “Fighting For Retraining In The Workcover”, and the many obstacles Victorian injured workers face when it comes to obtaining approval from their workcover insurer for “retraining”; we undertook some additional research into the frustrating “vocational re-education & retraining courses” process. Vocational re-education (retraining courses) under workcover According to the famous online [...]
Tackling bias towards people with disability
December 3 2012, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Bill Shorten launched a public consultation on proposals to boost employment participation for people with disability. The fight for equal opportunity for people with disabilities in finding suitable work could easily commence in South Australia through the WorkCover system. Where many of those on WorkCover are [...]
Harsh, unjust or unreasonable and unfair dismissals
Harsh, unjust or unreasonable and unfair dismissals When a employer terminates an employee there are strict guidelines that must be adhered. Any old excuse to” get rid ” of an employee is not acceptable by law. This also includes any employee who has suffered a workplace injury and is now doing modified work. Finding the [...]
Dear Mr O’Farrell, As individual community members, we may as well be handcuffed and gagged: Injured worker
The Hon Barry Robert O’Farrell Premier Of NSW. We recently received an email in which an injured worker shared a recent letter he sent to Mr O’Farrell seeking answers. It illustrates just one of the many genuine cases we hear as well as the confusion and outrage many injured workers feel the need to express, [...]
Injured workers who can do some but not all inherent job requirements can be sacked
Did you know that the Australian Industrial Relations Commission has ruled Injured Workers who can perform some but not all of their inherent job requirements after an injury can have their employment validly terminated. Injured workers who can do some but not all inherent job requirements can be sacked A legal case (2008) heard at [...]
Workcover, suitable duties and legally intoxicated on medication
We received an email from an injured worker, which we believed is well worth sharing with all as it raises important questions about liability when driving (or having an accident) when under the influence of narcotic, in others words, whilst being legally intoxicated and being forced to work (by the insurer, doctor, employer) and/or by [...]
What is a work hardening programme?
Ever heard of a Work Hardening Programme? Has your workcover case manager sent you to such a programme, made allusions to sending you? Has s/he asked an “independent” medical doctor whether you are “fit” to attend a work hardening programme? And, what the hell is it anyway, what is it used for? Well…The objective of [...]
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NSW Court rules workcover amendments affecting lumpsums do not apply retrospectively
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Workcover case managers listen to background noise when phoning injured workers – WTF
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Faulty assumptions only adds insult to injured workers
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WorkCover NSW average premiums cut by 7.5 per cent
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Government plan to make Comcare best practice model
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Deed of release often used in settling workcover cases- what are they?
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Barry’s reform adds insult to the injured
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Is there such a thing as post traumatic growth?
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Employers incl RTW Coordinators are not allowed to attend doctors appointments
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Recoveries of money under workcover
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Workcover compensation schemes impede recovery from injury
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Assault on injured workers – more evidence and concern S.I.A
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Vic Premier Naphtine called building workers safety march a disgrace
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Judge criticises law firm about rejection of more generous settlement offer
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International Day of Mourning: remembering those injured workers who have died
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NSW injured workers can still make a further claim for impairment for that same injury – new legal case
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What has the attack on NSW’s Workers Compensation laws meant for you?
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When can weekly payments in Victoria be terminated
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How are damages calculated
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How to spot chronic workplace bullies
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Common law damages claim and duty of care of the employer
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Federal Court ruled AAT required to explain why it preferred the IME’s evidence
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Medical Panels must provide clear reasons – Supreme Court Vic
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Workcover Certificates: Doctors must ensure they’re carefully worded
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Injured worker denied recommended back surgery and at wit’s end
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Change WorkCover. Give injured workers a fair go – Petition
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Injured worker’s weekly pay cut off based on biased pain doctor’s report
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Injured worker collapsed after “performance management” meeting – horror story
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What if an injured worker resigns in the heat of the moment?
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Workcover stress claims and reasonable administrative action
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