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Mr Simon Turner was an employee of Chandler Macleod, a labour hire company, and worked as a coal miner at the Mt Arthur coal mine in the Hunter Valley. The mine owner BHP and his employer called him a casual, even though he worked on the same long-term coal production roster and had the same duties and responsibilities as BHP’s permanent full-time workers doing the same job.
After being severely injured onsite, Simon discovered that he was not getting workers’ injury compensation, accident pay and other entitlements that are part of the Black Coal Award.
In fact, his employer did not even classify Simon as a coal miner and instead classified him as office administration, apparently to lower the workers’ compensation premiums. Simon lost all the benefits of the Black Coal Mining Award, including workers’ injury compensation.
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Dear senator.
If you think this is bad for miners, why don’t you take a look at all the other WC jurisdictions. It is not just the miners!! It is everyone in bloody Australia. Wake up. No one does anything about it, sheesh.
I would have thought that he would have been insured by:
a. Federal Workers compensation,
b. The contracting company, or
c. the mine.
Surely he must be covered by one of them?
Hi my name is Rudi
My son had also had a serious work accident in resulting 4
Discs been squashed now he needs an urgent spinal reconstruction due to a failed back surgery in Feb 2020.The so called work cover provider EML is ditching him around and tray to bulling him
around not to sign off
on an amount that is total out of reach what the additional back surgery(total Spinal reconstruction)
cost quoted in excess of $85000
An investigation should be call to look into the corrupt behavior of the multinational insurances where there only interest is looking after the share holders but not after the injured workers in Australia
Investigations are underway in Nsw on QbE and the corrupt state of Victoria the insurer Icare.The doctors paid from the insurer told my son its only in your head an nothing is wrong with
They didnt even wanted to pay for a Ct scan where it is very clear what the problem is.
Even a non qualified was able to see the damage.
To me our Health system is corrupt and looking only for the benefit of the pharmaceutical industry