Proposed reforms to Australia's largest scheme to support injured workers have been condemned as being founded on spin to justify a government's "morally vacuous" position.

More than 3.6 million workers in NSW are covered by the state's nominal insurer icare, which has long been plagued by financial difficulties.

The NSW government has proposed urgent changes to the workers compensation scheme to ensure it is sustainable.

But critics of the changes say they remove support for injured workers, with a parliamentary report published on Monday saying the implications are dramatic, harsh and dangerous and calling the proposed legislation discriminatory.

"The government has chosen to address the issue of financial sustainability by taking the inconceivably lazy and unfathomably cruel measure

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