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Workers Compensation Act 1951
105Employer must provide suitable work for full-time, part-
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105 Employer must provide suitable work for full-time, part-
time and casual workers
(a) a full-time, part-time or casual worker has been totally or
partially incapacitated for work because of an injury; and
(b) the worker can return to work, whether on a full-time or part-
time basis, and whether or not to the worker’s previous
(c) within 6 months after the day the worker became entitled to
weekly compensation, the worker asks the employer liable to
pay the compensation to provide employment for the worker.
(2) The employer must provide employment to the worker that is—
(a) so far as reasonably practical, the same as, or equivalent to, the
employment in which the worker was employed at the time of
the injury; and
(b) otherwise suitable employment for the worker.
(4) This section does not apply if—
(a) the worker voluntarily left the employment of the employer after
the injury happened (whether before or after the beginning of
the incapacity for work); or
(b) the employer ended the worker’s employment after the injury
happened, for a reason other than because the worker was not fit
for employment because of the injury; or
(c) the employer is a non-business employer; or
(d) the employer cannot provide suitable employment.