Specified volunteer firefighter

Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2015

This bill restores the right of injured Queensland workers to sue their employer for damages at common law, even for minor injuries, by scrapping the 5% impairment threshold introduced in 2013. It also treats 12 listed cancers as work-related injuries for long-serving firefighters and stops employers from checking a job applicant's workers' compensation claims history.