WORKERS' COMPENSATION.
NEW SOUTH WAIiES BILI* 9J.5 aJm-J;. SYDNEY, this day. The Amended Workers' Compensation Bill, introduced by Mr Wade, defines a workman as a person of any age and ot either sex who is under contract with an employer, made before or after the jTiTnmpnhp.Tiip.nt of the Act, and is engaged in manual labour. Compensation where death results, and the dependants left were wholly dependent on deceased's earnings at the time of death, is fixed at a sum equal to his earnings for the three years preceding of £200, whichever amount is the larger. In the case of no dependents the compensation covers medical and burial expenses not exceeding £12. In cases of total or partial incapacity, after the second week payment is to be a sum not exceeding fifty per cent, of the ordinary weekly ■wage, with a maximum of a pound weekly, the total liability not to exceed £100. Employers are not liable where the injury does not disaUe the workman for a period of at least two weeks, or in respect of injuries directly attributable to his own serious or wilful misconduct. . "
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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 165, 14 July 1910, Page 5
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