@icyfroth wrote:
Australia's tax collection agency has been involved in a lengthy compensation battle after a staff member's desk and chair heights were changed without her knowing it.
The ergonomic stuff up happened even though the woman had a sign on her work station saying "do not adjust or sit at this desk".
The initial compensation paid and ensuing 18-month legal tussle demonstrates the potential liabilities of hot desking where multiple workers use the same work station at different times.
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A genuine case or just rorting the system for a paid early retirement?
I think only someone who has not endured chronic pain would think it's got to be a path to early paid retirement.
The reality is compensation claims and time off work cause enormous hardship and mostly cost every cent the person has and then some.
Degenerative disease is the name given to the ongoing deteriortation that occurs after an injury and is used to block further support, which leaves the person in poverty and pain, and often wondering if they are going insane. The pain is invisible and people suffering are just expected to look on the bright side and get over it. The "It can't be that bad, can it?" attitudes to chronic pain can cause people to feel worthless and depressed.
Most people would not put on such symptoms and live with such pain just to rort the system.
At the forums into poverty that are held from time to time one of the facts that shock many is the numbers of people who find themselves in poverty that never expected to do so. They were productive people who suffered an injury, at work or away, that left them with chronic pain and cost them a fortune. That really cost them everything. It truly is an eye opening experience.
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