Ryan Ginstrom wrote:
> "Declan Murphy" <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:3FE64B91.2040006@hotmail.com...
> 
>>If it was the US (assuming the situation is the same/similar in
>>each/every US state) then yes there would be fair cause for worry. In
>>NSW though, just as there is "socialised medicine" (a federal issue),
>>there is socialised industrial relations, worker's compensation etc.
>>Instead of being dependent of the insurance companies, its a dependence
>>on the publicly owned WorkCover Authority (the inspectors hired by the
>>WA are considered unusually stringent, as are its auditors) and the role
>>of the NSW Ombudsman.
> 
> In the US they have a government program called "workers compensation," and
> the abuses are infamous. I trust government bureaucrats to run a worker's
> compensation system only slightly more than an insurance company, but at
> least their idiocy is not motivated by profit.

We all must rise to our appropriate level of incompetence. Is there an
office equivalent to an Ombudsman in sepponia too?




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