Posts tagged "workcover"

Premiums for businesses under the WorkCover scheme will be frozen for the 2024/25 financial year under an agreement to secure opposition support for the bill.

Victorian small and medium businesses are now considering budget adjustments and passing on the cost of labour, as they add surging WorkCover insurance premiums to the list of growing operational expenses.

An uptick in workers’ compensation claims related to COVID-19 could lead to a spike in WorkCover premiums.

The Victorian state government has announced a $550 million boost to the WorkCover scheme in a bid to keep premiums for businesses low.

Here's what employers need to know about their duty of care to employees in the heat. Because it's hot. Really hot.

A Court has ruled in favour of a McDonald's worker who broke her leg before her official shift started, creating a precedent that could have wide-ranging implications.

A Victorian business says it will be forced to put itself under pressure to come up with all the funds needed to pay a dramatically higher W…

  It’s a superhuman job to be a small business owner at this time of year.   Not only are you contending with getting your taxes in orde…

The number of employees seeking compensation over workplace-related stress is on the rise, with $273 million paid out during 2013-14 in Vict…

An employee who claims she was rendered incapable of working by her colleagues’ perfumes and aftershaves has lost her compensation claim. …

The Fair Work Commission has found a worker who was accused of fraud and dishonesty in relation to a WorkCover claim was unfairly dismissed …

An Adelaide paper mill worker has faced the Adelaide Magistrate’s Court after he was found to have been playing competitive basketball whi…