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Issue No 110 | ![]() |
07 September 2001 |
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Letters to the EditorInjured and Ripped Off
To Whom it may concern {all Australian workers } Five months ago I was injured at work. Suffering ligament damage to my left knee and a Herniated disk { c-6, c-7 } It took five weeks to get surgary on my left knee because my employer not only sacked me it that time but they delayed workcover paperwork as long as possible. It took daily calls to workcover before something happened. Mind you the employer should of had the paperwork filled out in seven days. As for my neck injury, I am still waiting to see a neurollogist that will answer my questions. Workcover sent me to one but he would't answer my question because he was only thier to answer workcovers questions. So I have to wait two more months until I can get into see one that will answer my questions. And I pay for that one, not Workcover because that way I know he has to answer my questions.I dont know the extent of my injuries or how long i will have constant pain, numbness , pins and needles in my left neck shoulder and arm.No one can tell me anything.Yet workcover dont care about that they just want to know what work i can do so they can send me to a host employer.So don't fooled by ! their web site. they don't care about anything except thier bottum line. After all they're just an insurance company. my advice to everyone, Join a union.I didn't and I'm suffering big time because of it. D Middleton, Queensland
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