WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 228 Employer’s obligation to assist or provide rehabilitation

WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND REHABILITATION ACT 2003 - SECT 228

228 Employer’s obligation to assist or provide rehabilitation

(1) The employer of a worker who has sustained an injury must take all reasonable steps to assist or provide the worker with rehabilitation during the prescribed period for the worker.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—50 penalty units.

(2) The rehabilitation must be of a suitable standard as prescribed by regulation.

(3) Without limiting subsection (1) or (2) , the employer must cooperate with the insurer to enable the insurer to meet its obligations under section 220 .

(4) If an employer considers it is not practicable to provide the worker with suitable duties programs, as mentioned in section 40 (2) (a) (i) , the employer must give the insurer written evidence that it is not practicable.

(5) In this section—


"prescribed period" , for a worker who has sustained an injury, means the period that—

(a) starts on the day the worker is injured; and

(b) ends on the day the insurer’s responsibility for the worker’s rehabilitation ends under section 220 .