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WorkCover – A Constant Battle !

WorkCover (Workers’ Compensation) was introduced to act as a form of insurance providing wage replacement and medical benifits to employees employees injured during the course of employment.

However, with the laws and policies supporting Workcover changed to reduce fraud; it has passed on a lot of power to the insurance companies who have been misusing this power and have been making life a living hell even for people who have been seriously injured.

Due to this, injured employees have to constantly fight for their rights (including medical services). The policies, in most cases, work in favour of the insurance companies and the injured worker is left to fight the decision and follow the lengthy legal process; including going to Accident Compensation Conciliation Service (ACCS) where you have to wait for around a couple of months or more to get to a conciliation just to realise that ACCS cannot force either party to make or agree to a decision. But this process has to be followed.

The insurance companies are aware that the process takes time and rely on this, as in most cases the injured worker ends up giving up on this whole process is very stressful and draining. On the otherside, if the injured worker does not give up they still have to follow the process,  which again saves money for the insurance companies as they end up delaying the services etc.

After going through this process, most of the injured workers wish they had never signed the workers’ compensation form and had instead chosen to get treated through the private/ public system.

Even though some employers are really good and do everything possible to help their injured employee; most employers treat their injured employers really badly and are known to bully and harass them. This makes things even more frustrating and stressful for injured workers.

Who are we?

There is a lot of confusion about the rights of the injured workers and what they should and should not do. The employers and the insurance companies, in most cases, either provide false information or hide some facts or important information so that it still is in their benefit.

WorkCover Victims website has been designed to provide information and support to the injured workers. On this website we will try our best to put up all the information that an injured worker needs, including information on what, as an injured worker, you should or should not do and also what can be the consequence of certain actions by the injured worker even if those actions have been taken out of frustration .