A "nice, safe position" for PCBUs to take when determining whether a worker is impaired by drugs is by referring to impairment thresholds outlined in Australian Standards, Workplace Law managing director Athena Koelmeyer told a recent OHS Alert webinar. She also answers four related questions attendees asked during the presentation.
A Fair Work Commissioner has expressed astonishment at an employer's lack of courtesy in telling an injured worker it needed to meet with her to discuss her return-to-work program, before sacking her without notice just hours after the meeting.
In a case highlighting the broad reach of the Fair Work Act's anti-bullying provisions, a commissioner has found that a "worker" is entitled to apply for stop-bullying orders against a resort's residents and members of its bodies corporate.
Employers are entitled to direct employees to attend a company-nominated doctor before returning to work after injury in circumstances where that return could create unacceptable health and safety risks, the Federal Court has ruled in a long-running dispute.
An experienced worker was validly dismissed for failing to instruct his crew before performing a "simple" crane lift, which resulted in an injury, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
A worker has failed to convince a judge that her employer knew she was suffering from depression when it disciplined her for performance issues because she sobbed throughout the disciplinary meeting.
A union's opposition to a tobacco smoking ban at a large workplace was "ameliorated" by the measures the employer put in place to help workers quit or reduce the habit, the Fair Work Commission has found.
In a long-running workplace bullying dispute involving insulting Facebook posts and an employee "Code of Silence", the Fair Work Commission has ordered an employer to train managers in forensic investigative techniques and arrange meetings with a safety inspector.
