Considering the ATO is covered under Comcare and not Worksafe your examples are a bit off the mark. Comcare is much, much nastier than worksafe.
I'm probably more using them to show how not* easy it is to scam for workers comp and that it tends to be pointless. Comcare, you are correct, are much nastier.
I personally only know of 3 people that have taken leave for RSI, incidently none of them strictly speaking should have gotten it. One was actually an injury caused from indoor cricket, another was from motorbike injury and the last was because he stays up all night playing computer games. Now I am sure my anecdotal evidence is hardly condemming but if you think that people faking it or lieing about their injury is the exception rather than the rule then you are living in a fairy land.
You are correct. Your anecdotal evidence is worth nothing.
Claiming Worksafe compensation in Australia is quite difficult for an average worker. Once they (Worksafe) are convinced there's a problem from reading your claim, the business has a 38 days to basically respond to it (I've personally never seen a business respond immediately, but to be fair I'll count my anecdotal evidence as worthy as yours). During this time, the claiment is probably not getting paid. After all this, their workplace is probably disputing it, stretching it out so that you can no longer financially support your action (days, years).
All this for not incredible amounts of money that someone could claim just as easily on the dole (the difference being that they had to convince a medical professional to lie and risk their reputation rather than convince a potential employer they were looking for employment). Yah. Great scam.
RSI for a large amount of people is little more than the modern day equivalent of a sickie. You would have better luck nailing down the root cause by monitoring pubs and and sporting events to find where the days out correspond.
Yes, I can see how the doctors, Workcover, workers and businesses conspire to make this happen.
You're talking about the exception rather than the rule.
A number of Australian government departments toyed with a program called 'Workpace' (made in the Netherlands I believe). I fondly recall a pop-up window telling me to exercise my fingers by employing something that looked remarkably like the shocker.
In the end, it was just an annoyance. It doesn't take a program to tell you your staff need more frequent breaks, better equipment and better OHS reporting.
The implication of the tax is that these people choose to drive for a long time.
People who don't live centrally are generally going to be hit for their daily commute. Yeah, it may take a swipe at people that drive despite viable alternatives, but those that drive out of necessity are going to be hit hard too. I'm personally more of a fan of incentives to drive people to conservation than a whip that doesn't yet know how many and who it's going to hit.
However, they are not an iTunes competitor. Their catalog is no where near iTunes in comprehensiveness. For many somewhat popular songs (try, for instance, finding the original "MacArthur park" the only results you get are a zillion bad karaoke albums, or covers. They have lots of random crap though. They are not really a competitor to iTunes, but rather a complement to it.
They're just stealing Apple's genius marketing strategy for the iMac. An inferior product with less choice at a higher price.
The hipsters will be all over it in and acting like it's awesome in days!
The Governor-General, for those non-colonials, exercises the supreme executive power of the Commonwealth. This still involves rum rationing, beating back the filthy natives and occasionally blocking legislation that interferes with their profligate lifestyles.
In Australia, all of their functions could theoretically be fulfilled by a giant rubber stamp that hates change and is uncomfortable around dark people.
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Considering the ATO is covered under Comcare and not Worksafe your examples are a bit off the mark. Comcare is much, much nastier than worksafe.
I'm probably more using them to show how not* easy it is to scam for workers comp and that it tends to be pointless. Comcare, you are correct, are much nastier.
I personally only know of 3 people that have taken leave for RSI, incidently none of them strictly speaking should have gotten it. One was actually an injury caused from indoor cricket, another was from motorbike injury and the last was because he stays up all night playing computer games. Now I am sure my anecdotal evidence is hardly condemming but if you think that people faking it or lieing about their injury is the exception rather than the rule then you are living in a fairy land.
You are correct. Your anecdotal evidence is worth nothing.
Claiming Worksafe compensation in Australia is quite difficult for an average worker. Once they (Worksafe) are convinced there's a problem from reading your claim, the business has a 38 days to basically respond to it (I've personally never seen a business respond immediately, but to be fair I'll count my anecdotal evidence as worthy as yours). During this time, the claiment is probably not getting paid. After all this, their workplace is probably disputing it, stretching it out so that you can no longer financially support your action (days, years).
All this for not incredible amounts of money that someone could claim just as easily on the dole (the difference being that they had to convince a medical professional to lie and risk their reputation rather than convince a potential employer they were looking for employment). Yah. Great scam.
RSI for a large amount of people is little more than the modern day equivalent of a sickie. You would have better luck nailing down the root cause by monitoring pubs and and sporting events to find where the days out correspond.
Yes, I can see how the doctors, Workcover, workers and businesses conspire to make this happen.
You're talking about the exception rather than the rule.
A number of Australian government departments toyed with a program called 'Workpace' (made in the Netherlands I believe). I fondly recall a pop-up window telling me to exercise my fingers by employing something that looked remarkably like the shocker.
In the end, it was just an annoyance. It doesn't take a program to tell you your staff need more frequent breaks, better equipment and better OHS reporting.
There's a SEAL on your lawn!
We don't want SEALs on our lawn!
Only one of the terrorists starts with a gun (which changes from day to day depending on who you listen to).
The implication of the tax is that these people choose to drive for a long time.
People who don't live centrally are generally going to be hit for their daily commute. Yeah, it may take a swipe at people that drive despite viable alternatives, but those that drive out of necessity are going to be hit hard too. I'm personally more of a fan of incentives to drive people to conservation than a whip that doesn't yet know how many and who it's going to hit.
However, they are not an iTunes competitor. Their catalog is no where near iTunes in comprehensiveness. For many somewhat popular songs (try, for instance, finding the original "MacArthur park" the only results you get are a zillion bad karaoke albums, or covers. They have lots of random crap though. They are not really a competitor to iTunes, but rather a complement to it.
They're just stealing Apple's genius marketing strategy for the iMac. An inferior product with less choice at a higher price.
The hipsters will be all over it in and acting like it's awesome in days!
...are possible in the FUTURE!
....was the cone of silence.
Who gets the oil now?
this means that there's an even better backdoor for the NSA in Win7?
They're just trying to stay relevant.
Backdoors are the warrantless wiretaps of the 2010s!
Nuh-uh! Steve only takes designer organs. Most people in prison aren't designers, so their organs wouldn't look good inside a black turtleneck.
Unlike iPhone 4 hipsters, I'm not sure Steve will be able to wait six months till they come in white.
how seriously can you take anyone talking about "cyberspace" in 2011?"
Let them do it. From what I'm reading, they think the Internet is a place in Germany.
That's a crazy way to state the price. Or are the prices for the agreements always the same, whatever phone you choose
$199 + Last dregs of integrity because you waited until it came in a colour to match your Macbook you Fanboy/girl?
Hmm....doesn't quite fit on a price tag.
All we need is about a quadrillion of them for a brain.
Maybe if we only used half or may be a third of that?
The first AI capable of acting as a CEO is still an achievement.
When the hipsters start buying sleeping bags and everyone in the art department at work applies for leave, it's nearing shipping date.
What's the difference between a shopping trolley and a consultant?
You can fit more food and wine into a consultant but at least a shopping trolley has a mind of it's own.
With all the stories of robots invented by Japanese over time, I am surprised they weren't doing this on day 2 after the event.
Give them a break, they had to mod the robot so that it's mouth no longer vibrated sensuously .
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The Governor-General, for those non-colonials, exercises the supreme executive power of the Commonwealth. This still involves rum rationing, beating back the filthy natives and occasionally blocking legislation that interferes with their profligate lifestyles.
In Australia, all of their functions could theoretically be fulfilled by a giant rubber stamp that hates change and is uncomfortable around dark people.
What would have happened in China if Bill S. Preston Esq. and 'Ted' Theodore Logan never returned Genghis Khan to the past?
Anarchy, that's what.
...that the Earth has been sent from the past to kill us.
Man, I just got used to the manual system.
Don't ask.
In the navy,
Yes, you can sail the seven seas!
In the navy,
Yes, you can fire MLDs!