The South Australian Government has revealed plans to introduce industrial manslaughter laws to Parliament, make a string of changes to the State WHS Act, and start overhauling the WHS regulator's case management system, all within the next financial year.
The Federal Court has overturned a finding that two union officials made homophobic slurs towards a project's safety advisor. The Court reduced their pecuniary penalties, but confirmed they "deliberately" breached the site's WHS requirements.
The Federal Court has increased a damages award by more than $200,000 for a worker, now in his 70s, who suffered a psychiatric injury from feeling pressured to retire. However, it rejected the worker's claim his employer's actions involved a work health and safety breach.
Qantas has failed in its second attempt to stay proceedings, which include alternative charges, involving its alleged discriminatory conduct against an elected health and safety representative in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
A government employer has failed in its latest challenge against a finding that it is liable for a worker's psychological injury caused by a colleague's racist taunts, this time arguing the courts ignored an "admission" of a pre-existing mental illness diagnosis.
An actor suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, from a particularly traumatic event that occurred while she was working with children in a hospital, has been blocked from bringing a general protections claim - involving alleged first-aid failings - because she had an anti-discrimination claim on foot at the same time.
An employer unlawfully discriminated against a job applicant with disabilities through its HR manager's "impressionistic" conclusion that employing her would involve safety risks and possible breaches of WHS laws, a tribunal has found.