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The workers' compensation schemes in five jurisdictions will be amended, and employer premiums increased, under one of the Federal Government's preferred options for ensuring catastrophically injured workers are supported for life.

NSW workers' comp premiums have plummeted by an average of 17 per cent over the last two years, but injured workers have paid for these cuts, with thousands going without medical treatment or being forced onto Centrelink benefits, according to a union-commissioned Macquarie University study.

• Capped workers' comp premiums promised for large NSW employers; and
  
• Safety regulators release alerts and other publications.

Injured employees in NSW are entitled to accrue leave while they're absent from work and receiving compensation - for now, the Federal Circuit Court has found.

Workplace-to-accommodation journey injury compensable; and Two more companies granted self-insurance licences under Comcare scheme.

WorkCover NSW should hold tardy insurers to account and restore injured workers' access to medical aids and other benefits for life, while lawyers should be paid for their involvement in work capacity reviews, a parliamentary inquiry has found.

New workers' compensation regulations have taken effect in NSW and Queensland, while NSW's Finance Minister has claimed that returning injured workers to work by an average of just one day earlier could save the WorkCover scheme millions of dollars.

NSW's workers' comp regulations will be amended immediately to ensure amputees and some other injured workers have access to medical aids and benefits until retirement age, State Finance Minister Dominic Perrottet has announced.

Legislation that limits access to workers' compensation creates a "moral hazard" where employers have less incentive to provide safe workplaces, according to a report on a survey of injured workers.

The NSW Government surprised employers with further workers' comp premium cuts in its budget yesterday, but the Greens and unions say WorkCover's surplus should be used to support amputees and others whose benefits were "stripped" by the 2012 scheme overhaul.