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An injured worker was not exercising a workplace right when he complained about his host employer to its employees, a court has found in dismissing his adverse action claim.

• NSW's COVID-19 work recovery tool guided by 100 years of crises;
  
• SA employers should expect COVID call from a WHS inspector;
  
• Vic workers told to keep working at home; and
  
• Start date for ACT's labour-hire licensing scheme confirmed.

• Workers' comp evasion ends in record $180k labour-hire penalty; and
  
• "Aggrieved" PCBU denied chance to challenge suspension notice.

Resources companies have been urged to implement a string of extra precautions to protect fly-in-fly-out and drive-in-drive-out workers, in camps or "on the move", from COVID-19. Meanwhile, ACT employers have been directed to conduct coronavirus risk assessments and ensure their contractors comply with hygiene rules.

An employer that negligently failed to identify and remove a slip hazard, which injured a labour-hire apprentice, is entitled to recover the $614,000 damages bill from its public liability insurer, an appeals court has ruled.

• Mandatory fatigue system and KPIs advised by SA inquiry; and
  
• Labour-hire safety scheme introduced in another jurisdiction.

An investigation report on a vehicle collision at a workplace, whose operator was recently charged over another collision that seriously injured a labour-hire worker, has called for employers to establish segregated roadways and apply engineering controls.

Workplace social structures and worksite "champions" can be leveraged to protect transient or temporary staff like contract or labour-hire workers, who are more vulnerable to health and safety hazards than permanent workers, researchers say.

A second PCBU has been fined after roof infrastructure damaged by workers went unreported and pierced another worker's head, bringing the total penalty imposed on two related entities over the incident to $316,000.

In an unusual case, a worker has been denied workers' compensation after a tribunal found his injury probably resulted from serious and wilful misconduct, with his employer asserting he cut his own finger to get out of a jail sentence.