HANDS OFF OUR WORKERS COMP!

The NSW Labor Government is secretly plotting with Business groups to take a chainsaw to your workers compensation entitlements. These changes will make workers less safe and less supported.

What are they planning, and what does it mean for you?

Raise the Whole Person Impairment threshold for psychological injuries from 15% to 30%

You need a WPI above the threshold to access entitlements like:

weekly payments beyond 130 weeks
domestic assistance
medical expenses and treatment for more than 2 years
a lump sum payment for permanent impairment

For comparison, an above the knee amputation is equivalent to 30% impairment. A spinal fusion is unlikely to reach 30% impairment.

No compensation for injuries caused by bullying or harassment, including sexual harassment, without a court order or finding

If your employer or manager, or a colleague, creates a psychologically unsafe environment that causes you to suffer a psychological injury, in order to get compensation and assistance you will first have to take your employer to the Industrial Relations Commission. There you will be cross-examined and interrogated, and have to wait potentially months to receive a finding or order, before you can get the help you need.

Change the definition for “psychological injury” and “reasonable management action”

The government wants to more narrowly define what kinds of injury count, and make it easier for employers to treat their workers badly.

Limit the kinds of medical treatment workers can access

The government wants to cut medical expenses by limiting what is covered, preventing workers from accessing medically prescribed treatments and potentially making their injuries worse.

These changes will affect EVERYONE

Every year, thousands of workers in education, health, front line services, community sector, public safety, construction, transport, manufacturing, retail, hospitality and more suffer a psychological injury that requires some form of compensation and assistance. The government now wants to make that support almost impossible to access.

The Greens are fighting these cruel changes

These changes are dangerous and cruel - that’s why the NSW Labor government wants to keep them secret, but you deserve to know.

Don’t believe the spin, these changes are only about the government saving money, while workers pay the price.

Every worker deserves to go home from work safe in mind as well as body.

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Want to take direct action right now?

Unions NSW have put together an email campaign, so that you can easily email the NSW Labor Government urging them to stand by their pre-election promise to support injured workers. Take action now at this link.

A UNIVERSAL WELLBEING PAYMENT FOR NSW

No matter who you are or what you do, everyone has the right to share in the wellbeing of our country.

But at the moment the essentials so many of us need – a place to call home, food on the table, and everyday essentials like electricity, internet, medicine and water – are simply out of reach.

Instead of supporting us, our government is choosing to prop up huge corporations with massive subsidies, and to give away our collective wealth through record tax cuts for the wealthy. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left to live paycheck to paycheck or trapped in the dehumanising bureaucracy of our existing welfare system.

Now, in the midst of a pandemic, and following quickly on the heels of the bushfire crisis, more of us than ever before are experiencing what it’s like to lose our jobs, be without a home, or worry about where the food for our next meal will come from.

It’s time for us to choose to prioritise the wellbeing of everyone.

And that’s exactly what the Universal Wellbeing Payment will do.

It’s a regular payment made to each of us to ensure our minimum standard of wellbeing. No means testing, no bureaucracy, no strings attached.

It’s the amount you’re owed simply for being a participant in our society.

It means you are free to live your life and contribute to society as you see fit, whether you’re a carer, an artist, a student, a parent, an entrepreneur – you can get on with what you need to do, knowing that you will always be supported regardless of your income.

It means that we’re choosing to structure our economy for the benefit of all of us, not using our collective wealth to prop up the interests of big business and the wealthy few.

It means you will always have what you need to live a good life, no matter what.

The Universal Wellbeing Payment is for everyone. Help us make it happen.

For more information, head to universalwellbeingpayment.com.au

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