Compensation / Medical

Any business that is able to reduce its workplace injuries is to be commended for its efforts. However Australia Post has implemented a program known as the Injury Management (Early Intervention) policy that sweeps workplace injuries under the carpet and worse forces injured workers back to the workplace before they are fit for work. A number of Australia Post workers

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The latest Australia Post Staff Information Bulletin from Managing Director Graeme John, dated 18 September 2008, encourages employees to identify cost savings in the workplace and discuss any ideas you have with your manager. Let’s start with the number of employees directed to Australia Post Facility Nominated Doctors (FNDs) by and large for the purpose of avoiding workers’ compensation claims and lost

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Australia Post faces Commission for denying workers’ sick leave entitlements Postal workers have been stripped of their sick leave entitlements for bogus reasons, including calling in sick ‘too early’, says their union. Australia Post has directed employees to call in sick only during a one-hour window before the commencement of their shift. Workers who have called in several hours before

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CEPU BANS THREAT TO MEMBER HEALTH & SAFETY The CEPU’s highest decision-making body – the Divisional Conference – has taken an important decision to ban member co-operation with Australia Post’s Facility Nominated Doctor process. Independent bodies such as the Australian Industrial Relations Commission previously ruled that the process was improper – it stopped the previous FND plan dead in its

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Australia Post management are again attempting to override medical certificates to avoid paying sick leave and are employing bully boy tactics to get there way. This time the worker concerned was told 6 months down the track that the 2 days sick leave she applied for in November 2007 had not been approved and that the days would be deducted

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