New Zealand Gazette – 2000 – No. 41

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✨ Accredited Employers Programme Framework



NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

No. 41

FRAMEWORK FOR THE ACCREDITED EMPLOYERS PROGRAMME

Contents

PART 1

  1. Background
  2. Objectives
  3. Definitions

Partnership Discount Plan
4. Outline of the Partnership Discount Plan
5. Eligibility of the Employer
6. Premium

PART 2
Full Self Cover Plan
7. Outline of the Full Self Cover Plan
8. Eligibility of the Employer
9. Premium
10. Transferred Claims Payment

PART 3
Provisions Common to both the Partnership Discount and Full Self Cover Plans
11. General Eligibility
12. More than one Employer
13. Injured Employees
14. Processing of Claims
15. Employee Review Rights
16. Employer Liability Cap
17. Incompatibility of Private Insurance
18. Delegations
19. Reporting and Information
20. Monitoring and Audit Framework
21. Premium Setting
22. Payment to Manager
23. Cancellation or Termination
24. Dispute Resolution

  1. Background

1.1 Under section 326C of the Accident Insurance Act 1998 (the Act) the Minister for Accident Insurance is required, by notice in the Gazette, to establish a framework under which the Accident Compensation Corporation (the Manager) and an employer may agree that the employer is the agent of the Manager for the purposes of providing statutory entitlements in relation to work-related personal injuries suffered by the employer’s employees (the Accredited Employers Programme). This is that Framework.

1.2 The Manager is obliged to follow, and may rely on, the terms of this Framework.

  1. Objectives

2.1 The objectives of the Accredited Employers Programme are those set out in section 326B of the Act in the following terms:

The objectives [of the Accredited Employers Programme] are to -

(a) promote injury prevention and rehabilitation; and

(b) reduce work-related personal injury claim costs and premiums; and

(c) provide benchmarks against which the extent and management of work-related personal injuries can be measured -

by allowing accredited employers to provide at their own cost statutory entitlements in relation to work-related personal injuries suffered by their employees.

2.2 In order to meet these objectives the Accredited Employers Programme (as set out in this Framework) provides that:

(a) An employer

  • who meets the criteria set out in section 326E(1) of the Act (as to which see paragraph 11.2); and
  • who can provide the evidence referred to in paragraph 11 that it meets such criteria,

may enter into an Accreditation Agreement with the Manager which must be consistent with this Framework. However, to gain entry to the Accredited Employers Programme, an employer must show a commitment and ability to deliver on the injury prevention and rehabilitation objectives in the Act.

(b) Under the Accreditation Agreement the Accredited Employer will be required to manage and directly fund most of the statutory entitlements of employees of that Accredited Employer who have suffered a work-related personal injury during each Cover Period contained in the Accreditation Agreement (the statutory entitlements the employer does not need to



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👷 Framework for the Accredited Employers Programme (continued from previous page)

👷 Labour & Employment
Accredited Employers, Programme Framework, Labour, Employment, Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, Work-Related Injuries, Statutory Entitlements, Accident Insurance Act 1998, Accreditation Agreement, Cover Period, Claims Processing, Employer Liability, Private Insurance, Delegations, Reporting, Monitoring, Audit, Premium Setting, Dispute Resolution