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Public safety workers face rising rates of psychological injury and suicide. Research suggests employers are focusing on the wrong solutions.
Developments in technology mean there are more ways for workplaces to be monitored, and not always with the knowledge of workers.
South Africa is working on how best to integrate labour and environmental justice and how its labour laws can be used to enable a just energy transition.
With 70 work-related deaths each year, the government’s review of health and safety rules is very timely. But simply reducing red tape won’t fix the deeper problems.
Organizations may gain an advantage by not investing in worker health, instead simply replacing burned-out employees with new ones in order to ensure a supply of healthy employees.
Mental health challenges are a fact of life in the modern workplace. Managerial understanding is struggling to catch up.
A growing body of evidence shows that the emotional health and well-being of the workforce is of equal or greater importance than physical safety.
A Federal Court ruling on Sally Rugg’s case against Monique Ryan should provide some much needed guidance on what “reasonable additional work hours” means.
The fifth national survey on sexual harassment in Australian workplaces shows little movement since the last survey in 2018.
It’s clear the current workplace health and safety framework isn’t stopping people from getting bullied. It’s time to treat bullying as a public health issue and address the problem more effectively.
Fair Work Commission rulings on employer vaccination mandates highlight the need for fair processes.
The idea of provoking trauma for organisational benefit is profoundly wrong.
In an Australian first, Western Australia has formally recognised the psychological and social stress of insecure work.
This is an important victory for employees and unions, acknowledging the importance of genuine and meaningful consultation. It’s not a victory for mandate opponents.
If you catch COVID-19 at work in Australia, you do have rights to leave and compensation, depending on your employment status
Whether it is reasonable for an Australian employer to mandate vaccination is a case-by-case determination.
There are only limited circumstances where workplace vaccine mandates are likely to be found legally justifiable.
Our study, measuring heart rate, skin conductivity and emotion in controlled conditions, shows the effects of office noise are very real.
The legal ground in Australia for employers to insist that employees be vaccinated is murky.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Workplace and Business Law, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Senior Researcher Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute; Sessional Academic RMIT University, The Australia Institute
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Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Dean of Management, Edith Cowan University
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Research Associate, RMIT University
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Lecturer in Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, CQUniversity Australia
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Associate Professor HRM/IR, CQUniversity Australia
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Lecturer in Supply Chain Management, RMIT University
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Professor of Health and Safety, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor Emerita, Law, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University
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Honorary Research Fellow, Humanities, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Management, RMIT University
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Lecturer in law, Edith Cowan University