An alarming "first of its kind" WHS survey has found that burnout rates are surging, with isolated environments partly to blame, while a new "WHS Radar" has warned of the "emergence of complacency" around critical safety issues.
An employer sacked a worker because she requested unpaid domestic violence leave to care for her son, and not, as it claimed, because she engaged in bullying and other forms of misconduct, a commission has ruled.
The South Australian Government has revealed plans to introduce industrial manslaughter laws to Parliament, make a string of changes to the State WHS Act, and start overhauling the WHS regulator's case management system, all within the next financial year.
From next week, employers in Canberra will have a duty to report "actual or suspected" incidents of workplace s-xual assault to a WHS regulator, under new laws that also ban insurance against WHS penalties.
A commission has rejected a worker's bid for stop-bullying orders requiring her employer to cover her medical expenses and stand down its CEO, after finding her supervisor's frank and firm comments didn't constitute bullying.
A worker has unsuccessfully claimed his brother and his employer took unlawful adverse action against him for making workplace complaints, with a court finding the company was forced to take action when a dispute between the "warring" brothers started to affect the health and safety of staff.
