Thanks to intense pressure from union members, the NSW Government has pressed pause on their rushed plan to restrict long-term mental health care for seriously injured workers.
That doesn’t mean the fight is over. The government still wants to increase the threshold for psychological injury support from 15% to 31% impairment – a level that would shut out 95% of workers from accessing long-term mental health care.
The pause does, however, mean we now have a chance to reform the system the right way, ensuring injured workers receive the support they need to recover and return to work.
Help us keep the pressure on by either emailing or calling your local NSW MP:
Workers’ compensation is serious business, which could affect any one of us during our careers. Let’s work together to make the system work for us, not against us.
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