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Employers will be required to cooperate and communicate with labour-hire providers on suitable employment options for injured workers, under a South Australian Bill that also includes special arrangements for self-insured companies, and enhances benefits for those with dust diseases and terminal illnesses.

• Safety fines top $600k after post-fatality breaches; and
  
• "Duty to provide work" overhauled in draft SA RTW Bill.

The start dates for a range of new WHS clauses have been postponed in Western Australia, while a Bill providing presumptive compensation to certain workers with PTSD has been reintroduced in South Australia.

• More death-benefit cases launched with calls for gig reforms; and
  
• Significant RTW amendments commencing in SA soon.

• Injured workers' entitlements restricted by new SA Bill; and
  
• New WHS Regulations subject to early changes in WA.

An Amendment Bill curtailing injured workers' access to benefits, and reversing the effects of Supreme and High Court judgments, has helped contain the forecast hike in insurance premiums in South Australia, but constitutes a "betrayal" of workers, according to one party.

• Strict COVID-19 notification rules scrapped in Vic; and
  
• Presumptive COVID protections flagged for SA.

• Qantas rejects COVID-19 claims as 750 staff told to self-isolate;
  
• COVID-19 work injury Bills introduced in SA; and
  
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• Presumptive PTSD compensation introduced in second state;
  
• National transport safety amendments made, and proposed; and
  
• Four sets of electricity and rail safety regulations commence in Vic.

A former Federal Court judge has rejected submissions that a ruling in favour of a worker injured by opioid medication encourages a culture of litigiousness and sickness, but recommended that consideration be given to amending South Australia's Return to Work Act if the man's claim is upheld in upcoming proceedings.