Browsing: Workplace safety

TUE
2:50PM

High Court to clarify dismissal-related safety duties, rights

The High Court has agreed to consider quashing the application of allegedly outdated judgments that bar damages for psychiatric injuries caused by dismissal processes, in the case of a worker who was subjected to a sham dismissal after an incident on a work trip.



TUE
12:17PM

Employers falling short on duties to pregnant workers

Employers have been reminded of their WHS duties to pregnant and parent workers, and urged to make ergonomic adjustments where needed, after a major project found these workers continue to face "vast discrimination, disadvantage, and bias".



MON
11:53AM

Q&A: Wellbeing program reduces stress and anxiety, and targets sedentary risks

A major law firm is targeting body, mind, culture and place through a holistic wellbeing program with strategies ranging from "desk stretch cards" to vicarious trauma training, and its employees are reaping the rewards with reductions in depression, stress and anxiety.


FRI
3:51PM

"Ethically reprehensible" and repeatedly aggressive manager loses adverse action and WHS claims

A "critical and insensitive" manager who routinely swore at his subordinates in an attempt to motivate them to meet purported "German demands" has lost his adverse action case, with a court finding his behaviour warranted instant dismissal and he wasn't the victim of WHS breaches.


FRI
1:43PM



THU
12:55PM

Tick-and-flick anti-harassment exercises damaging workplace health and safety efforts

Disingenuous attempts by companies to curb s-xual harassment in response to increased attention on the matter are damaging the chances for change, according to the latest instalment of a landmark Australian study.


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