Government looking at limiting mental health claims to just PTSD cases after $1.1bn shortfall
Workers’ compensation for mental health injuries could be restricted to post-traumatic stress disorder and exclude bullying and harassment under plans being floated to rein in the growing cost of Victoria’s WorkCover scheme.declared the scheme “fundamentally broken” – with benefits paid to injured workers exceeding the premiums paid by business to fund the scheme by about $1.1bn a year.
Workers may also have to prove the mental health injury is almost entirely work-related and not due to external factors. Currently, an injured worker only needs to show a causal relationship between their injury and their employment. The government spokesperson said the WorkCover scheme is “no longer fit for purpose and does not meet the modern needs of those it was originally designed to assist more than 30 years ago”.
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