ACC Futures Coalition – 26 proposalsAugust 2020Proposals to repeal the previous National Government’s changes under the Act: 1. Holiday pay should not be abated against weekly compensation.Schedule 1 cls 49 of the Act allows payments at the termination of employment to beabated from the amount of weekly compensation that the... Keep Reading
What others have been saying Editorial, Southland Times 23 December 2010 “Employers argue that they need the competitive financial incentives of an insurance contract to reduce the incidence of deaths and injuries at work. So they’re admitting that they aren’t already making every effort to protect workers’ lives and ... Keep Reading
In October 2008, the ACC law was changed to allow workers, who are traumatised at work because he or she directly experiences an event - such as an earthquake or a robbery, to apply to ACC for compensation. The law change came about because the Government recognised that mental trauma can cause incapacity. Parliament was convinced by the experience Keep Reading
Professor Jane Kelsey has produced a briefing on the implications of the proposed Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (a free trade agreement involving a number of Pacific and Asian countries, including the United States) for our public health system). Keep Reading
It appears the ACC stocktake report is finally about to come out, according to Colin James' column in today’s Dominion Post. Keep Reading
The National government is introducing more private sector involvement into ACC, writes ACC Futures Coalition spokesperson Hazel Armstrong Keep Reading
ACC has admitted it will need more staff to cope with levy changes, just a year after announcing up to 70 jobs were being shed. Changes announced yesterday will see workplaces with good safety records rewarded with a big drop in levies and workplaces with Keep Reading
Unions are warning that workers will be bullied into not seeking treatment for accidents, if the Government introduces a rating system for employers' Accident Compensation Corporation levies. Under the proposal, employers can qualify for a cut of up to 50 Keep Reading
ACC cuts would result in people with workplace hearing loss not getting treatment for their injuries, Age Concern says. ACC is proposing changes in which they would no longer cover the full cost of a hearing aid needed by someone who has lost their hearin Keep Reading
8 April 2009 ACC is a public good – Futures Coalition ACC must be kept as a public good was the message from the ACC Futures Coalition at its launch this morning in Wellington. The Coalition, which is comprised of health providers, ACC consumers and unions, has been formed to... Keep Reading
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