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AU Small Businesses Hit Hard by Work Comp

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 | 0

Small business throughout Australia are feeling the pinch of that country's national workers' compensation crisis, with reports coming out of the country of bankruptcies and layoffs as due to, in the words of one paper, "draconian workers' compensation laws".Chambers of commerce in various parts of Australia are calling for small businesses to rise up and reform workers compensation laws throughout the country, and in particular those in New South Wales, which is seen as particularly onerous on business. One story has a small business not only footing 90% of an injured worker's medical bills, ...

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