New South Wales Consolidated Acts

WORKPLACE INJURY MANAGEMENT AND WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1998 - SECT 48

48 Return to work obligations of worker

(1) A worker who has current work capacity must, in co-operation with the employer or insurer, make reasonable efforts to return to work in suitable employment or pre-injury employment at the worker's place of employment or at another place of employment.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a worker is to be treated as making a reasonable effort to return to work in suitable employment or pre-injury employment during any reasonable period in which--

(a) the worker is waiting for the commencement of a workplace rehabilitation service that is required to be provided under an injury management plan for the worker, or

(b) the worker is waiting for a response to a request for suitable employment or pre-injury employment made by the worker and received by the employer, or

(c) if the employer's response is that suitable employment or pre-injury employment will be provided at some time, the worker is waiting for suitable employment or pre-injury employment to commence.