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A financial analyst who claimed she was required to work 16 hours per weekday, and up to eight hours every weekend, has failed to prove her employer breached the reasonable hours provisions of the Fair Work Act.

A school payroll officer with "brain fog" and a respiratory illness has lost her bid for compensation, after failing to prove that mould in her workplace's air-conditioning system and other areas caused her condition.

Portable standing desks can help fill the gap in strategies for tackling increased excessive sitting among the high number of workers who started working from home more because of the COVID-19 pandemic, health science researchers have found.

An office worker seeking compensation for tennis elbow from computer work has lost his case, with a tribunal reiterating that experiencing pain at work doesn't necessarily mean a condition is caused or aggravated by employment.

An employer that medically retired an injured worker was not obligated to offer her a part-time role or create a new job for her, a commission full bench has ruled in a case involving overlapping injury laws.

In a case highlighting the importance of timely ergonomic assessments in white-collar settings, an appeals commission has rejected a major employer's bid to overturn a judgment in favour of an injured desk-bound engineer.

By including sneakers in workplace dress codes, organisations can benefit from increased productivity and improved workplace health and safety, protecting themselves from potential litigation, says a WHS and HR consultant.

Australian researchers have found a combination of exercise and ergonomic interventions decrease the risk of neck pain in office workers and is more effective than another strategy. They urge employers to implement simple exercise routines to help prevent the common and costly musculoskeletal disorder.

A first-of-its-kind study has investigated the association between day-to-day job demands, strain and "work-life interference", and identified factors that can counter-balance the impact of work stressors on work-life balance.

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