The amount of sick leave taken by NSW public sector employees has risen by 7.9 per cent in the last five years, suggesting employers need to introduce strategies for the ageing workforce and disengaged employees, a new report has found.
Employers should find ways to reorganise employment conditions to improve the work participation of people with chronic diseases, two studies recommend.
An employer directly discriminated against an injured worker when it sacked him for being unable to perform the inherent requirements of his role without accurately determining what that role actually was, a tribunal has found.
Improving awareness about menopause in the workplace, and supporting those experiencing it, requires employers to provide information not only to women, but to men in their roles as partners and line managers, a university professor says.
A worker who was sacked after he "went well beyond defending himself" in a workplace scuffle was harshly dismissed because of his lengthy service, but shouldn't be reinstated, the Fair Work Commission has found.
Governments are being warned against making "brutal cuts" to their workers' comp schemes as the workforce ages, while WorkCover Queensland has outlined how to improve the health and safety of older workers.
Coronial reports on two of the hundreds of deaths resulting from falls from ladders in Australia in the last decade have highlighted the importance of complying with the relevant Standards and WHS Codes of Practice - in both work and home maintenance settings.
The Fair Work Commission has found an employer was entitled to sack a 65-year-old worker, who suffered a string of injuries, because he was unable to comply with its "physical demands" document.
A Supreme Court judge has rejected an employer's claim that a 67-year-old injured worker's weekly benefits couldn't be "continued" because he applied for a continuation after his payments ceased.
