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Tim Dornin

SA govt brokers deal over worker payments

A deal to protect businesses and workers' rights is "the right thing to do", Peter Malinauskas says. (AAP)

The South Australian government has brokered a deal with unions and business over proposed legislation that could have slashed compensation payments to some seriously injured workers.

The legislation, which went before the state's upper house recently, was designed to head off a recent court ruling which allowed workers who suffered multiple injuries over a period of time to combine them to reach the 30 per cent 'whole person impaired' threshold.

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