Workers who believe they are treated unfairly at work take more sick leave, but employers can reverse the phenomenon through policy tweaks and cost-effective training for supervisors, according to European researchers.
A psychologist has outlined 10 ways to get a better night's sleep, with sleep deprivation affecting two in five Australians, and causing hundreds of industrial and road deaths a year.
UK researchers have made a series of recommendations on how employers can mitigate the risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, after finding that one in three firefighters suffer some form of distress that makes them susceptible to PTSD.
A commission has rejected a worker's claim that his supervisor acted unreasonably in telling OHS and HR managers about his Asperger's diagnosis without his consent.
An employer indirectly discriminated against a worker with type 2 diabetes in failing to follow up on missing medical information on his employment form, which would have helped it take steps to prevent his workload damaging his health, a tribunal has found.
Swedish researchers have conducted a world-first study on the link between how workers actually spend their free time during work-hour-reduction interventions and improved long-term health and work performance.
A court has thrown out a morbidly obese worker's claim that his employer took adverse action against him by deliberately offering him roles he couldn't physically perform, before sacking him.