NSW junior doctors class action

Next Steps

If you have registered a claim in the class action, Maurice Blackburn will be in contact with you in the coming weeks to request you provide us with your Stafflink number and payroll information. Please note that if you do not have any payroll information, you can still participate in the settlement administration.  

The Stafflink number and payroll information will be used to match with relevant data from the NSW Health payroll and rostering system. Given there are approximately 15,000 registrants participating in the class action and the length of the relevant period we need data for, this data extraction, collection and matching task is complex. We will be working closely with NSW Health during this period and we anticipate it will take approximately 6 months to complete. 

Maurice Blackburn will communicate with you when we require you to take certain steps or provide us with information. There is nothing you need to do until we contact you.

At this stage, it is not possible to tell you if you will be eligible to receive compensation from the settlement. This will depend upon an assessment of your eligibility during the settlement administration.

Further, it is not possible to tell you how much you may receive by participating in the settlement. This will depend on how many registered group members are eligible and an estimate of each group members’ entitlements.

Registration has now closed

The deadline for group members to register was 12 July 2024. Eligible group members identified by NSW Health were sent a notice of the proposed settlement in accordance with orders of the Supreme Court of NSW dated 15 May 2024.

The orders of the Court required that group members must register a claim to participate in the class action settlement by 12 July 2024. Maurice Blackburn has no discretion to allow late registrations.

If you did not register a claim by 12 July 2024 you are unable to participate in the class action settlement.