Newshound
16-05-2008, 12:10 PM
COMMENT AND DEBATE
Workers' compensation is one area in which national harmonisation can be achieved. It can be done without the Federal Government establishing its own scheme, without it abolishing state schemes and without it forgoing the usual benefit of a federal structure: the competition between jurisdictions to be better regulators. All the Commonwealth has to do is set the rules.
Read full Fairfax article here (http://smallbusiness.theage.com.au/growing/workplace/compo-needs-national-approach-907055299.html?s_cid=rss_smallbiz)
Workers' compensation is one area in which national harmonisation can be achieved. It can be done without the Federal Government establishing its own scheme, without it abolishing state schemes and without it forgoing the usual benefit of a federal structure: the competition between jurisdictions to be better regulators. All the Commonwealth has to do is set the rules.
Read full Fairfax article here (http://smallbusiness.theage.com.au/growing/workplace/compo-needs-national-approach-907055299.html?s_cid=rss_smallbiz)