Workers are at high risk of developing long-term mental health problems like post-traumatic stress disorder and depression when exposed to trauma, morally injurious events and institutional betrayal, which often involves organisational inaction, a study has found.
A tribunal has thrown out a joint bid by 145 workers to overturn their employer's vaccine mandate by claiming it involved WHS consultation flaws. The tribunal stressed that the feedback process in such circumstances enables "contribution", not "collaboration".
The High Court has confirmed Qantas Airways Ltd took unlawful adverse action against 1,700 ground crew workers when it outsourced their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. The union that brought the case applauded the judgment, and highlighted a string of workplace safety issues that it claims arose from the outsourcing arrangement.
A government employer failed to have proper regard to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the healthcare system when it refused to authorise a worker's sick leave, a court has found.
A commission has called out a major employer's "troubling" reliance on its customer violence de-escalation policies in dismissing a worker drawn into a scuffle with a member of the public, finding the strategy's core aspects "simply did not apply" to the incident that unfolded.
Studies involving the experiences of nearly 15,000 workers during the COVID-19 pandemic have identified key lessons for preventing burnout in the "post-pandemic" workplace, including by mitigating "moral distress".
A worker has proved her post-traumatic stress disorder was caused by traumatic incidents throughout her lengthy employment, with a commission rejecting her employer's claim her injury resulted from reasonable action taken after she refused to comply with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
Many PCBUs that diligently helped their workers establish safe home workspaces for the COVID-19 pandemic treated this as a "set-and-forget task", failing to "continually" discharge their safety duties, according to two WHS lawyers, who explain what businesses can and must do to tackle the post-pandemic surge in work-related mental health issues.
An employer has been found liable for the psychological injury sustained by a worker who resisted getting a COVID-19 vaccine. The employer unreasonably failed to correct his mistaken belief he'd lost his job, a commission found.