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Employers can take five steps to reduce high levels of "emotional labour", which can lead to stress, burnout and absenteeism, Australian researchers say.
Queensland has overhauled its safety and workers' comp agencies for the second time in a year, and committed to implementing its proposed WHS amendments within the next 12 months.
A worker who was sacked for a "serious" OHS breach, after she changed her sanitary napkin in the workplace kitchen, has been denied an extension of time to pursue her unfair dismissal claim.
An apprentice who has a 70 per cent whole person impairment as a result of being engulfed in flames at a work birthday party, where a large amount of free alcohol was supplied, has successfully sued his employer.
An employer has successfully argued that confidential workplace investigation documents shouldn't be published in a Fair Work Commission bullying case, as their release could undermine future investigations and employee confidence in its policies and procedures.
Two union officials, including one who told a project manager his name was Steve Irwin (the deceased crocodile hunter), breached the Fair Work Act in entering the project site and obstructing "unsafe" work without NSW WHS entry permits, a court has found.
