The Return to Work Strategy 2025-28 will support public sector employees with injuries return to work. Returning to work is recognised as one of the best ways to support recovery. It leads to better outcomes including improved employee wellbeing and morale, and maintaining a skilled workforce, bringing financial and service delivery benefits to the sector and NSW communities.
The strategy promotes a person-centred approach and aims to improve return to work outcomes, which have been declining in recent years. It supports flexible, effective return to work pathways across the sector, ensuring all workers with injuries are treated with respect and supported in their recovery.
The vision of the strategy is a NSW public sector better supporting positive return to work outcomes.
It identified five actions:
- Executive accountability for return to work governance, more positive culture, and championing return to work.
- Best-practice return to work framework to enhance and support capacity in the public sector.
- Mobility programs to give more opportunities for return to work within and across agencies.
- Workplace programs and supports tailored to the needs of government workers and employers.
- Performance measurement and reporting to track progress and identify priority areas across the public sector.