ACC review to focus on women

ACC review to focus on women
Staff reporters
A review of Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) coverage will take a closer look at the diseases women are experiencing in the workplace.The government has approved a new framework for making regular updates to the list of occupational diseases covered by the scheme, which hasn’t been updated since 2010. ACC minister Carmel Sepuloni said society had changed in the 50 years since the legislation was passed, and there were parts of ACC that needed modernising. “We know that, for various reasons women, Māori, Pacific and...