Incentives for NSW businesses to employ workers with a work related injury or illness

Overview

Employers participating in this scheme will receive:

• incentive payments for up to 12 months
• an exemption of the injured worker’s wages from the employer’s workers compensation premium calculation for up to 2 years
• protection against further costs associated with changes occurring to the worker’s existing injury for up to 2 years.

The maximum incentive payments are:

• $400 per week for the first 12 weeks (maximum of $4,800)
• $500 per week for the next 14 weeks (maximum $7,000)
• $600 per week for the next 26 weeks (maximum $15,600).

Check if you can apply

To be eligible, employers must:

• be a different employer to the pre-injury employer
• hold a current workers compensation policy with an insurer or a self-insurer’s licence
• not be grouped with the pre-injury employer for workers compensation insurance or insured under the same group self-insurer licence as the pre-injury employer
• be able to offer employment to a worker for a minimum of 12 months
• provide a minimum of 64 paid hours per month or a return to the worker's pre-injury hours
• not be in receipt of any other wage subsidy for the worker
• adhere to their jurisdiction’s workers compensation and workplace health and safety legislation.