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Podcast: Lawyers Weekly Podcast Network
Episode: Improving the national approach to workersâ compensation
Description: The exiting national workersâ compensation scheme, one principal argues, is âcertainly not fit for purposeâ and shouldnât be implemented nationwide. Here, she details why a better approach, covering workers of all types, is required if workersâ compensation is to better cater to the evolving needs of staff everywhere. In this episode of The Lawyers Weekly Show, host Jerome Doraisamy speaks with Maurice Blackburn principal Alison Barrett about why plaintiff work is so meaningful for her, the current landscape across all Australian jurisdictions for workersâ compensation, whether those schemes are fit for purpose, the existing issues with the Comcare...