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WORKPLACE INJURY MANAGEMENT AND WORKERS COMPENSATION ACT 1998 - SECT 48
Return to work obligations of worker
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.
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