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VTHC Workcover Campaign

The Victorian Trades Hall (VTHC) has launched a campaign regarding the Hanks review of the Accident Compensation Act (Workcover). The VTHC is encouraging Victorians to log onto the website and participate by sending a campaign email, expressing your concerns regarding the current and proposed changes to Workcover.

The website address is www.fixworkcover.org

If you wish to send an e-mail with your concerns you can send one from http://www.fixworkcover.org/sendletter.php

In December last year the state government announced that a review of the 1985 Accident Compensation Act would be conducted by Mr Peter Hanks QC. In making the announcement, the Minister for WorkCover, Tim Holding declared:

"Victoria's WorkCover scheme... the best in Australia, offering generous benefits and good return-to-work outcomes for injured workers as well as low premiums for employers."

This is not an accurate observation by the Minister.

To be injured at work is bad enough, but to be injured in Victoria is even worse. WorkCover in Victoria holds the record for rejecting new claims by injured workers.

It rejects 14.1%, yet in Queensland only 3.8 % are rejected.

A low income worker in Victoria gets the worst weekly payment benefits in Australia.

WorkCover is the most profitable system of workers compensation in Australia. It makes a profit of more that $1 billion a year and pays more than $700 million a year into state government coffers.

Since 2004 it's cut employers' premiums by 45% saving them $2 billion. Under the Hanks recommendations premiums will be cut by another 6% - reducing even further the funds available to care for injured workers.

Despite WorkCover's profits and its gifts to employers, it still fails to provide quality care and financial support for injured workers.

It's time to do something. Instead of making WorkCover worse for workers, the government needs to make it better.