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Employment and Safety: proposed changes to paid family and domestic violence leave and other developments
The latest issues, decisions and proposed changes impacting business and workplace risk ...
Employment and Safety: Key employment changes from 1 July 2022 and other developments
The latest issues, decisions and proposed changes impacting business and workplace risk ...
Allens bolsters employment and safety practice with appointment of partner
Samantha joins the firm's Brisbane office and brings with her more than 20 years' experience advising on strategic and complex safety, employment and industrial relations matters. 'Sam is widely ...
Employment and Safety: High Court confirms employer's duty to protect employees from psychiatric injury and other developments
The latest issues, decisions and proposed changes impacting business and workplace risk ...
Employment & Safety: Federal Court considers 'stoppage of work' in Qantas stand down dispute and other developments
The latest issues, decisions and proposed changes impacting business and workplace risk. ...
Employment & Safety: summary of the Victorian sick leave pilot scheme; and other developments
The latest issues, decisions and proposed changes impacting business and workplace risk ...
Federal Court makes declaration regarding employee transfer
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). ...
Court finds heights risk 'significant and obvious'
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. ...
Court finds employment only needs to be one significant cause of a workplace injury to hold employer liable
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
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. ...