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WED

1:17PM

Improving uptake of workplace wellbeing services

A major employer has outlined the steps it is taking to ensure workers have "ownership" of wellbeing and support services, in its response to a report on paramedic suicides.

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THU

3:58PM

Qantas's anti-bullying test rejected by FWC

A major employer has unsuccessfully argued that the Fair Work Commission only has jurisdiction to make stop-bullying orders if there is a "discernibly identifiable" rather than "speculative" risk of the applicant being bullied in future.

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FRI

3:58PM

Worker awarded $515k component in PTSD case

A company has been ordered to pay $515,000, instead of $872,000, to a worker with debilitating PTSD, after the NSW Supreme Court found the worker's funds could be managed by a less expensive trustee than the one selected by her mother.

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FRI

11:45AM

"Ownership" key to worker wellbeing: suicide report

A senior psychiatrist's review of paramedic suicides has stressed the importance of workers having "ownership" of wellbeing services.

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TUE

2:37PM

Company-doctor direction unreasonable after day off

A worker who complained of bullying before being sacked for refusing to see a company-nominated doctor, after a one-day absence, has been awarded nearly $44,000.

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TUE

2:49PM

Safety whistleblowing activities didn't lead to dismissal

A worker who claims he was bullied and sacked for reporting WHS concerns to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) has been denied an unfair dismissal remedy.

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MON

2:47PM

High Court to consider admin-action dispute

Comcare has applied for special leave to appeal to the High Court against a recent full Federal Court decision on a psych injury and the reasonable-administrative-action exclusion in the SRC Act.

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FRI

12:38PM

Depression rampant in white-collar sector

Employers need to "intensify" their strategies for reducing work-related stress, according to researchers, who have found a third of workers in a white-collar industry could be clinically depressed.

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THU

1:10PM

Could asylum-seeker ruling lead to WHS breaches?

The Federal Government could be in breach of work health and safety laws if it responds to yesterday's High Court decision on asylum seekers by sending more children to offshore processing centres, according to the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA).

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TUE

1:59PM

Single reasonable admin action can block psych claim

An electorate officer for Federal Senator John Madigan has been denied workers' compensation for a psych injury, after the AAT found that at least one of the multiple work-related causes of his injury was reasonable administrative action.

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