The Friday Workplace Briefing

In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Kim discuss the risks of using employment or independent contractor agreements for overseas employees and how a recent case has extended employees’ rights under the Fair Work Act.

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In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina are on the road coming to you from the Alpine Region where they are doing a Mock Court.

They are discussing the emerging new law developing in the Fair Work Commission (FWC) regarding the expanding expectations of fairness during investigations. These critical attacks on historically safe investigations speaks to where the new law is going and what you must do to avoid risks.​​

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In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss safety managers pushing back on employers, the protection of anti-discrimination provisions in safety law and what not to do.

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In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Kim discuss contractors and genuine redundancies.

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In this week's Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss if office jokes and pranks are funny, or just plain wrong.

People respond differently to the same situation and psychosocial hazards and must be considered. How do we preserve a happy working environment without harming?

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In this week's Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Kim discuss the right to disconnect and how that is not necessarily the right to say no to work.

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In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss the right way to manage pregnant workers.

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In this week's Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Kim give an update on what is happening to the CFMEU. It appears the gloves are off and everyone is after them.

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In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss how a principal contractor owes duties to other workers on site and how a new Supreme Court case makes this clear.

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In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Kim discuss how recent WorkSafe charges of reckless endangerment over a failure to manage fatigue leading to the death of an employee, impacts the workplace.

Recently, WorkSafe have laid charges of reckless endangerment against a company and its sole director over a failure to manage fatigue leading to the death of an employee.

The decision to charge takes fatigue management out of Chain of Responsibilities law and makes fatigue in all aspects of work a high-risk aspect of work requiring review.

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