COMPENSATION LAW
AMENDMENT SUGGESTED
PIECE-WORKER AND CONTRACTOR
A case in which Mr. P. J. O'Regan appeared as counsel for the plaintiff in the Court of Arbitration today was stated by him to illustrate the need for an amendment of the Compensation Act, so that there would not be the interminable trouble of piecework and contract.
Mr. O'Regan's contention was that the line between a piece-worker and an independent contractor was often very difficult to draw. It was becoming an increasingly common practice, he said, for men to do such work as fencing or cutting firewood by contract, and although the men called themselves contractors they might be piece-workers. The line was difficult to draw, but the consequences were important. To one class, in the event of an injury, compensation was payable and to the other it was not.
What Mr.'O'Regan suggests is that the benefits of section 63 of the Workers' Compensation Act, by which miners and men employed on contract felling bush are deemed to be workers, should be extended to cover every case of possible contract.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1935, Page 13
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178COMPENSATION LAW Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 143, 13 December 1935, Page 13
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