Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) An employer must establish and maintain a return-to-work program that complies with subsection (3).
Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.
(2) An employer must display or notify a return-to-work program that complies with subsection (3) at each place of work of the workers to whom the program relates or may relate.
Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.
(3) A return-to-work program must—
(a) provide policies and procedures for the rehabilitation (including, if necessary, vocational rehabilitation) of injured workers of the employer; and
(b) be consistent with the injury management program of the employer's insurer; and
(c) be established in accordance with any guidelines issued by the Minister under section 110; and
(d) be developed in consultation with—
(i) the workers to whom it relates, or may relate; and
(ii) any industrial union of workers representing the workers; and
(iii) an approved rehabilitation provider.
(4) To remove any doubt, subsection (3) (d) does not limit the people the employer may consult when developing the return-to-work program.
(5) Subsection (1) does not apply if—
(a) the employer is part of a group of employers that has jointly established a single return-to-work program for each member of the group; and
(c) the employers are authorised in writing to do this by the Minister; and
(b) the return-to-work program complies with subsection (3).
(6) This section does not apply to a non-business employer.
(7) An offence against this section is a strict liability offence.