Guide to cross-border workers' compensation arrangements

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About the guide

The Guide to cross-border workers’ compensation arrangements provides guidance to employers, insurers and workers on workers’ compensation insurance arrangements where an employee works in more than one state.

The guide provides information on:

key aspects of cross-border workers’ compensation legislation
determining a worker’s home jurisdiction
consequences of the new arrangements.

The guide also contains:

industry examples of the application of the state of connection test relating to:
- agriculture/pastoral
- building and construction
- education
- labour hire
- mining
- performers
- sales
- seafaring
- transport
a list of workers’ compensation authority contacts.

Last updated May 4, 2006