Comcare - Oh My God, You have to be Joking!!!!!

The Federal Government is attempting to take over
workers compensation and Occupational Health and
Safety by stealth.

Comcare is the federal occupational health and safety
and workers’ compensation scheme.

This is unnecessary, given that the Victorian, NSW
and QLD state governments are harmonising their
OHS and compensation laws in key areas.

Workers are now worse off under the federal
government’s stripped back OHS laws and
recently the government made it harder to claim
compensation for common workplace illnesses
under Comcare.

Comcare is not a wanted option by either sides and was a
huge failure the first time around.

We at WCV’s don’t understand why the Government would
want to reintroduce a failed system like Comcare when they
already know, it doesn’t work

Safety at work blog states: "The word out in some Australian
OHS clique is that Australia’s Comcare agency will be given
a major overhaul through the National OHS Review
recommendations that is on the verge of completion.

The Minister for Workplace Relations, Julia Gillard, did
not name the brand new organisation that she intends to
introduce through the Alliance of Australian Governments
process" which is typical of her and it makes us here wonder
why she isn't releasing that information to us when she will
expect us to accept it all when she does!

Safety at work then notes that Comcare has started promoting
a succession of national seminars for the month of March 2009.

Probably to drum up business!

Safety At Work Blog also states that Comcare will be upgraded
to a fully functional national OHS authority and WCV’s
unfortunately agrees with them.

Comcare will just make being an injured worker even harder.

Julia, Comcare is not wanted !

Under the Comcare Link tab there is a link to a paper called
"The Comcare self Insurance option", do yourself a favor and read
it it has all the info you need to know about Comcare and the
Governments implementation of the Productivity Commissions
Assessment of it.

If this assessment is anything to go by, then we have no hope of
this government implementing a fairer system from the Hanks Review.