Browsing: Workers' comp premium/levy news (SA)

Employers' workers' comp premiums will increase significantly, with some companies facing an "annual hit" of hundreds of thousands of dollars, unless the High Court quashes a judgment allowing injured workers to "combine" their impairments, according to a regulator and South Australia's Treasurer.

• Premiums increased for high "serious" workplace injury rate; and
  
• New COVID check-in rule for businesses introduced.

• Lack of documented loading procedures leads to paraplegia;
  
• Workers' comp transitions and premiums announced in three states; and
  
• New WHS Minister appointed in Tas.

• Decision-making skills trump complex safety procedures;
  
• PCBUs warned of new height safety fines; and
  
• Workers' comp developments announced in SA and Qld.

• PCBU fined $500k, but parent company acquitted;
  
• Confined-space fine increased by 83%;
  
• Record-low workers' comp premium rate announced in SA; and
  
• Unsafe labour-hire firms warned at launch of Qld licensing scheme.

• Anti-bullying claim gets go ahead in s789FF dispute; and
  
• SA reveals 2016-17 premium, Vic appoints agent panel.

• Full bench blocks bullied worker's reinstatement bid; and
  
• ReturnToWork SA reports further improvements.

• Qld announces low premium rates for 2015-16;
  
• SA employers promised premium cuts of up to 95%;
  
• SRC Bill passes House of Representatives; and
  
• WA increases workers' comp payments and opens safety awards.

South Australia's workers' comp regulator has wiped out its $1.132 billion unfunded liability, and has set a record-low average premium rate for 2015-16.

South Australian employers have been promised a "big reduction" in workers' comp insurance premiums in 2015-16, with the introduction of WorkCover SA's new name - ReturnToWorkSA.