ANALYSIS: Why reining in Victoria's 'broken' WorkCover scheme presents thorny political choices for Daniel Andrews
These benefits are also proving more costly, the government says, and were not envisaged when the scheme was set up in 1985.Currently, a worker only needs to show a causal relationship between their injury and employment.
The government believes there is a group of claims rising from badly-managed interpersonal conflicts in a workplace, where the only impediment to a person returning to work is poor relationships with colleagues.knocking back some claims from long-term injured workers in "immoral and unethical" circumstancesMeasures being mulled to slow the agency's ballooning costs include an increase to premiums paid by business — Victorian rates are lower than most other states at just 1.
And with a drastic increase in so-called long-tail claims, the government is floating the idea of capping claims and reducing the percentage of a pre-injury wage it is willing to pay out.All of the options come with considerable political risk.
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