Victoria’s presumptive rights scheme will be expanded to cover firefighters diagnosed with female-specific forms of cancer, but the union has slammed the move as a political stunt.
Legislation for the compensation scheme will be amended to add primary site cervical, ovarian and uterine conditions to the existing list of 12 eligible cancers, Emergency Services Minister Jaclyn Symes has announced.
“This is something that’s been brought to my attention time and time again by female firefighters within CFA (Country Fire Authority) and FRV (Fire Rescue Victoria),” she told reporters on Friday.
Presumptive rights mean that career and volunteer firefighters diagnosed with certain cancers do not need to prove firefighting caused their disease….