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EXCLUSIVE | State Government workplace insurer ReturnToWork SA and the widow of Jorge Castillo-Riffo, killed while working on the new Royal Adelaide Hospital construction site in 2014, have both launched legal action against the hospital joint venture.
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The Weatherill Government is exploring a legal mechanism to allow workers’ compensation exemptions for frontline workers not covered by enterprise bargaining agreements, as it seeks to wind back contentious provisions of its Return To Work regime for all “first responders”.
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A factory manager who won workers’ compensation – but was not informed as such for almost a decade as he spiralled into alcoholism and resultant brain damage – has told InDaily the state’s compensation administrator must be held accountable for its failure.
Lawyers are calling on the State Government to urgently review workers’ compensation law after the Employment Tribunal described the outcome of one of its own rulings as “unfair” and “unfortunate” for an injured worker.
South Australian firefighters and ambulance crews are stepping up their fight for strengthened workers’ compensation support after the State Government caved to police union demands.
The state’s Police Association is going it alone in pushing for compensation exemptions for frontline officers injured in the line of duty, as a swag of other unions surf in on a wave of public support for its campaign.
