DDA Decline/termination decisions: insurance
Decline/termination
decisions: insurance
Summaries
of decisions by Disability Discrimination Commissioner or delegate to
decline complaints, and of the President of HREOC or delegate reviewing
such decisions; or (from 13 April 2000) decisions by the President or
delegate to terminate complaints.
Last updated: April 2000. Compilation and release of these summaries beyond April 2000 has not been authorised by the Commission
Lack
of coverage of particular disabilities by workers' compensation scheme
not unlawful
A
woman with a disability complained that the South Australian workers'
compensation scheme did not cover her disability. Confirming a decision
by the Disability Discrimination Commissioner, the President decided that
this did not constitute unlawful discrimination. In his view the operation
of the scheme was akin to a special measure to assist people with particular
disabilities, and the fact that the scheme did not extend beyond those
disabilities did not amount to discrimination (23 September 1996).