Published on 11 February 2016: Super Funds that drag their feet in deciding on injury disability claims are being urged to clean up their act.
Published on 09 February 2016: Recent examples of labour hire agencies and employers rorting workers through underpayment of wages and entitlements adds pressure to clean up the industry.
Published on 08 February 2016: Every Victorian workplace is required by law to have a Register of Injuries for employees to record all injuries suffered at work and it is vital to enter your injury into it.
Published on 08 February 2016: Archbishop Pell will be allowed to give his evidence by videolink, according to a decision handed down today by the Royal Commission into Institutional Abuses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Published on 05 February 2016: Despite a further directions hearing it is still not known whether Cardinal George Pell and former Bishop of Ballarat Ronald Mulkearns will give evidence in person to the Royal Commission.
Published on 21 January 2016: An amendment to the Wrongs Act 1958 has made it easier for those suffering spinal injuries as a result of an accident in public places to access compensation.
Published on 19 January 2016: An abuse survivor who late last year made a statement to the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, is hosting his first solo art exhibition in Preston.
Published on 08 January 2016: Stray cows and leaping kangaroos often figure in TAC injury claims on country roads during the school holidays as thousands take to the bush for a break.
Published on 22 December 2015: The TAC’s Annual Claim Statistics Report for 2014-15 shows that the Barwon-Western district - including Warrnambool, Portland, Geelong and Hamilton - had the dubious honour of having the largest number of injury claims, standing at 1,223.
Published on 17 December 2015: The Federal Circuit Court has ordered that a small engineering company pay one of its former employees $36,000 in financial penalties for failing to pay wages and provide pay records.
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