Fiji Human Rights Commission lawyer Sova Colavanua at the Gender Mainstream 
Training in Nasese today. 

Workers' Compensation laws are designed to ensure that employees who are injured or disabled on the job are provided with monetary awards, senior officers of the Fiji Corrections Service were told. 

The comment was made by Labour Inspector Madhu Lata while presenting on the Workman’s Compensation Act this morning. 

These laws she said, also provide benefits for dependents of those workers who are killed because of work-related accidents or illnesses. 

“Workers Compensation statutes established this framework for most employment,” Lata said. 

According to Lata, the Act provides workers compensation for all employees except for exceptional cases. 

Many of its provisions she said, are typical of most worker compensation laws. 

“ Awards are limited to "disability or death" sustained while in the performance of the employee's duties but not caused willfully by the employee. 

“The Act covers medical expenses due to the disability. An injured employee receives two thirds of his or her normal weekly wages during the disability and may receive more for permanent physical injuries,” Lata said. 

The act is administered by the Office of Ministry of Labour, Industrial Relations & Employment. 

Presentations were made this morning by the Ministry of Labour, Fiji Human Rights Commission, office of the Director of Public Prosecution and the Public Service Commission. 

The training ends today. 


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