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• Go home on time to improve work-life balance and health; and
  
• VWA issues advice on exposure standards and harvest safety.

• Returning expat miners could spread Ebola; and
  
• Paid domestic violence leave flagged for awards review.

• Change in work hours caused compensable psych injury; and
  
• Premium cuts in SA unlikely without proposed reforms.

Employers are being urged to redesign roles to make them more challenging and flexible, after European researchers found job boredom increases the likelihood of poor health and high turnover.

Employers are being urged to take 13 steps to create mentally healthy workplaces.

Allowing work emails to be sent after hours or mismanaging structural change can contribute to mentally unhealthy work environments, the chair of the Mental Health Council of Australia has warned.

A new report released in conjunction with national Go Home on Time Day - which is today - has found millions of Australian workers aren't taking regular lunch breaks or annual leave - and it's "making us sick".

Employers can reduce workplace stress levels by giving employees the same flexibility as managers to "adjust their work" when they feel "out of sorts", according to Swedish researchers.

Psychosocial work risks changing over time, say European researchers; and WorkCover SA's unfunded liability falls - slightly.

McDonald's introduces domestic violence leave for its 85,000 employees; New WorkCover NSW Minister appointed; Manual handling warning and safety documents issued in NSW; and Tasmanian death highlights dangers of dodgy scaffolding.