It’s always a stressful time when an employee needs to go onto ACC due to an accident (work or non-work related) as after the first week its the responsibility of ACC to pay the employee 80% of their Normal Wages.
The process of getting this up and running involves the employee lodging a claim with ACC. ACC assesses the claim and if valid approaches your employer with a request for your wage history over the previous four weeks. From these figures ACC bases its 80% calculation and makes the payment.
The trouble with this is the uncertainty involved with ACC getting the information they need as quickly as possible, but I must say, that from experience they get onto it very quickly.
However, any employer can elect to pay their employee directly and then claim back the 80% (or any other ACC agreed, lesser percentage) directly from ACC. This can greatly alleviate and stress upon the employee knowing that the payment will kick in straight away as it will just get processed through your payroll on its standard frequency.
If you want to know more about this service then click HERE and read all about it on the ACC website.
