Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment) Award 2009

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by Director of Public Employment.

 

(No. IRC 494 of 2010)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.        Insert the following new paragraph 82.7.1 in subclause 82.7 of clause 82, Sick Leave - Workers Compensation, of the award published 31 July 2009 (368 I.G. 884).

 

82.7.1  Before approving the use of sick leave in this subclause, the Department Head must be satisfied that the staff member is complying with the obligations imposed by the Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 which requires that the staff member must:

 

(a)      participate and cooperate in the establishment of the required injury management plan for the staff member;

 

(b)      comply with obligations imposed on the staff member by or under the injury management plan established for the staff member;

 

(c)      when requested to do so, nominate as their treating doctor for the purposes of the injury management plan a medical practitioner who is prepared to participate in the development of, and in the arrangements under, the plan;

 

(d)      authorise the nominated treating doctor to provide relevant information to the insurer or the Department Head for the purposes of the injury management plan; and

 

(e)      make all reasonable efforts to return to work as soon as possible, having regard to the nature of the injury.

 

2.        This variation shall take effect on and from 13 July 2010.

 

 

 

J. P. GRAYSON D.P.

 

 

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