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June 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell has rejected claims that an inquiry into the WorkCover compensation scheme was a whitewash.
The state government is set to announce changes to the scheme next week after being handed a parliamentary committee report which recommends a series of cutbacks to injury payouts.
The Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) on Thursday branded the committee report a “fix” and a “whitewash”, saying it had simply rubber stamped the government’s own reform blueprint.
Mr O’Farrell admitted ministers had already begun planning WorkCover changes ahead of the report but made no apologies for doing so.
“We’ve always said two things – that we’d wait for the final report of the committee to fashion our response but that in the meantime we would undertake work in the direction in which our public discussion paper has suggested,” he told reporters in Sydney.
“We’ve now received the parliamentary committee’s report.
“Cabinet’s discussed it once this morning, it’ll have another look at it on Monday and next week we’ll make clear legislative proposals.”
Among the recommendations, the parliamentary committee suggested cutting payouts to injured workers after 13 weeks rather than the current system of full payments for 26 weeks.
It also recommended abolishing payouts for workers injured on the way to and from work, except for police.
CFMEU president Rita Mallia said it meant police officers’ lives were being valued higher than other workers.
She also said the changes would lead to a new underclass of poor workers.
Thousands of employees and union members rallied outside parliament house on Wednesday to protest against the proposals.
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