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Employment & Safety: Federal Court considers 'stoppage of work' in Qantas stand down dispute and other developments
Insight 03 May 2022

The latest issues, decisions and proposed changes impacting business and workplace risk. ...

Everything you need to know about cyber risks, resilience and responsibilities
Insight 02 May 2022

Organisations today are both blessed and cursed with extraordinary amounts of data. The responsibility for information security and data governance starts and ends with the board and senior management. We offer a handbook to help navigate duties and liabilities and a checklist of questions directors should be asking. ...

Just in time: the full spectrum of amendments to the Security of Critical Infrastructure regime now passed
Insight 22 Apr 2022

The final anticipated amendments to the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (Cth) (SOCI Act) have been passed in the nick of time, making their way through the Senate in its last sitting before the 2022 Federal Election. These latest amendments introduce new and enhanced obligations for risk management programs and security respectively, and the concept of ‘systems of national significance’. ...

Employment & Safety: summary of the Victorian sick leave pilot scheme; and other developments
Insight 31 Mar 2022

The latest issues, decisions and proposed changes impacting business and workplace risk ...

WHS prosecutor made to pay costs
Insight 07 Mar 2022

A Queensland safety prosecutor has been directed to pay a defendant's costs after learning information on day one of the trial that put it on notice its expert evidence did not support the charge brought. ...

Court finds employment only needs to be one significant cause of a workplace injury to hold employer liable
Insight 07 Mar 2022

An injured employee has been awarded damages in circumstances where it was unclear whether the root cause of his injury was his employment, personal leisure activities, or a degenerative disease. ...

FWC Full Bench upholds reinstatement of worker dismissed for breach of mobile phone rules
Insight 07 Mar 2022

A Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission (the FWC) has upheld a decision to reinstate a worker after he was dismissed for contravening the employer's mobile phone usage policy.1 The Full Bench agreed with an earlier decision of a single member of the FWC, deciding that the dismissal was harsh, taking into account the employee's circumstances. ...

Court finds heights risk 'significant and obvious'
Insight 07 Mar 2022

A principal contractor and an employer have been ordered to pay nearly $700,000 collectively to a window glazier who fell from a 4.5 metre tall ladder while placing silicone between a steel column and a window. ...

Federal Court makes declaration regarding employee transfer
Insight 07 Mar 2022

The Federal Court has declared that the transfer of workers currently employed by Crown in Melbourne and Perth to new private gaming facilities in Sydney will not result in a 'transfer of business' under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (the FW Act). ...

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