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Employer and workcover QLD blame injured worker for own carelessness & use Facebook pictures to defeat K300 claim

By on April 5, 2013 in Legal cases, Surveillance, WorkCover QLD

In June 2008, 28-year-old 1st year apprentice electrician was “roughing in” power cables to a QLD apartment, following an improvisation procedure to stop the cables being forced up against sharp framing edges and risking insulation damage. This improvisation method used offcuts of steel U-shaped channel that unfortunately exposed a razor-sharp edge that was to become [...]

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Downsides of social media for injured workers

By on September 9, 2012 in Surveillance, Tips & Tricks

Let’s face it, many injured workers  are actively participating  in various forms of social media for example through blogging, Twitter-ing, and Facebook-ing and are unaware that there are some serious downsides to this practice. Especially since our blog’s recent DoS attack, I have been thinking a lot about this topic and I believe it would [...]

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Why on earth would injured workers commit deceit, fraud or malinger?

By on August 27, 2012 in Fraud & Abuse, Ramblings & Whinges, Surveillance

According to tabloids, government, workcover and their agents it is “not rare” to learn that an injured worker who is unable to work, is actually “gainfully employed” while claiming workers compensation and that malingering and corruption is a “significant concern”. Why on earth would injured workers commit deceit, fraud or malinger? With 8 years of [...]

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Injured workers spied on by giant transport company

By on July 2, 2012 in Employment, Surveillance, unfair dismissal, WTF

A major transport company [Toll Group] is using private investigators to follow injured workers who take leave to recover from workplace injuries, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. How SICK! Injured workers spied on by giant transport company The Toll Group will be taken to the national industrial umpire today by a worker who says she [...]

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Workcover fraud: a national scheme would be better than fraud detection

By on February 5, 2012 in Fraud & Abuse, Politics, Surveillance

Streamlining the various workers’ compensation systems would have a much greater financial benefit than allocating resources to detect fraud, according to a Coalition-dominated federal government committee. In 2003, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Employment and Workplace Relations said it found the level of employee fraud is generally low, with most injured workers committed [...]

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Workcover and blogging, a bad combination?

By on January 26, 2012 in Common Law, Surveillance, Tips & Tricks

Would you be surprised if I told you that those photos you uploaded to Facebook, or that video of your child’s basketball game now playing on YouTube,or that this very blog may be harmful to its injured author, or even that your restaurant “check-in” on Yelp could cost you thousands of dollars and seriously undermine [...]

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