A key backer of the NSW government’s contentious workers’ compensation reforms has continued to receive a $100,000 annual taxpayer-funded fee for his position on icare’s board while lobbying for the proposed changes to be passed in parliament.

Business NSW chief executive Daniel Hunter’s dual role as an employers’ peak body representative and board member for the government agency that insures and cares for injured workers has been described as a “gross breach of public governance and accountability” by Greens finance spokesperson Abigail Boyd.

At the same time, a fellow icare director, Unions NSW’s boss Mark Morey, has opted out of his payment and has temporarily recused himself from the board while the reforms are debated. Morey is the employee representative on the board and Hunter is

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