Thursday 18 December 2008
The CEPU has today launched the 'Cash for Compo' campaign to it's Union
membership. A public launch will follow shortly.www.CashforCompo.org.au
Australia Post's drive to cut workers compensation costs is resulting in serious
mistreatment of sick and injured workers.Injured workers are losing out as Post:
· sacks them
· forces them back to work early to reduce 'lost-time injury' records
· 'doctor shops' for medical opinion that suits them
· refuses compensation on spurious grounds
· directs them on to unpaid sick leave against their treating doctor's advice.
Meanwhile, Post managers are pocketing cash bonuses for cutting compo costs!
That's just not right!Through the Cash for Compo campaign, the CEPU exposes
Australia Post's unfair and dangerous practices when dealing with injured workers
and calls on the Federal Government to intervene.
Australia Post is mistreating sick and injured workers to reduce its workers
compensation costs.
Australia Post boasts that Lost Time Injury records are the lowest they've
ever been although those results haven't been achieved by a safer workplace –
rather by manipulating the injury management process to force people back to
work and deny injured workers their rights.
The CEPU represents Australia Post workers and has gathered significant
evidence and documented extensive abuse of the injury management process.
Facility Nominated Doctors.
Workers are being bullied into attending company-paid Facility Nominated
Doctors. FNDs are instructed to avoid workers compensation and have injured
workers fit for work work, before they've had to time to recover.Australia Post
has a commercial contract with InjuryNET, a private organisation, which gives
Post access to a network of doctors.
InjuryNET guarantees it will reduce Lost Time Injury rates, lost hours and
duration until return to pre-injury duties.
Where workers are not eligible for workers compensation, the same company
doctors are instructed to find them unfit for duties, so Australia Post can direct
them off work without pay, and eventually sack them.
The CEPU has obtained email evidence that managers use the injury
management process to get rid of ‘undesireable' employees. This is the language
Australia Post management use to describe injured workers.
These are the very same managers who are rewarding themselves with cash
bonuses for reducing Lost Time Injuries in Australia Post at the expense of
injured workers rights.
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