workers compensation

Sunday, July 12

Frontline workers deserve virus compo backup

State Parliament should act to ensure teachers, supermarket and service station staff, cleaners and others deemed essential during the pandemic crisis are given more adequate workers compensation protection if they fall sick, argues Kevin Purse.

The horrific double standard in SA's workers' compensation laws

South Australia’s workers’ compensation regime has entrenched discrimination against people suffering from a mental illness, writes Amber Sprague.

Donna Pennington's back was injured at work in 2013. Image: supplied.

Call for urgent review of "unfair" workers' compo law

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.

Compo cave-in: State Govt faces demands from other emergency services

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.