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RETURN TO WORK ACT 2014 (NO 16 OF 2014) - SECT 43

43—Return to work obligations of worker

        (1)         A worker who has current work capacity must, in co-operation with the employer or Corporation, 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 any recovery/return to work services that are required to be provided under a recovery/return to work 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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