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Started Jan 05 2013, 19:14
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Jan 05 2013, 19:14
The Law Council of Australia suggests that the inability to access workers’ compensation in the event of a work-related accident may, in some circumstances, act as a disincentive for mature age workers to remain in, or return to, the workforce.
This barrier has been emphasised by bodies such as the Advisory Panel on the Economic Potential of Senior Australians, and a number of stakeholders in the course of this Inquiry. It is also acknowledged by Safe Work Australia in its current development of policy options to address retirement provisions in workers’ compensation legislation—in part to remove legislative barriers that ‘stop older people working’emoving this disincentive was also one of the key drivers of recent Western Australian workers’ compensation reform.
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