A PCBU has been been convicted and fined $230,000 for category 2 and 3 WHS breaches, in the second of two cases in one jurisdiction in just over a year involving silicosis diagnoses and heavy penalties across different industries.
An employer has been granted permission to contest a bullying claim, in a case that hinged on the exact date a manager "received" an email containing the claim forms.
A 24-hour service for reporting workplace s-xual harassment is just one of a series of strategies adopted in one jurisdiction to tackle the high rate of harassment in the Australian legal profession.
This major OHS Alert report reviews all the need-to-know workplace health and safety and workers' comp developments from the past few months, including the passage of game-changing Respect@Work laws, numerous WHS amendments, COVID rulings, a state-first workplace manslaughter charge, and a record-smashing reckless conduct fine.
A chief justice has refused to increase the fine handed to one of two related companies charged with nearly identical workplace safety breaches, describing the mitigating circumstances as "powerful".
An employer unlawfully "took matters into its own hands" and deducted alleged overpayments from an employee's workers' compensation entitlements, after discovering he was operating a side business, a tribunal has found.
A worker who was on "availability duty" when he tripped and broke his leg, while walking his dog, was "doing what he was paid to do when he was injured", a full supreme court has ruled, noting previous judgments - both for and against the worker - unnecessarily applied the High Court test for interval injuries.