Workers’ Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003

This section applies if the employer fails to immediately reinstate the worker under section 232D.

The following persons may apply to the industrial commission for an order that the employer reinstate the worker to the worker’s former position (a reinstatement order)—

the worker;

an employee organisation of which the worker is a member, with the worker’s consent.

The commission may make a reinstatement order if satisfied the worker is fit for employment in the former position.

The order may specify terms of reinstatement including, for example, the day the reinstatement is to take effect.