Posts tagged "workplace safety"

If the Fair Work Act explicitly outlawed sexual harassment, employers would have to take active steps to prevent and reduce the risk of sexual harassment.

The federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins will lead a national inquiry into sexual harassment in the workplace.

The ann…

For the third time this year, the Fair Work Commission has upheld an employer’s decision to dismiss an employee who was found to have breached a cardinal safety rule in the workplace.

Despite closing down its San Franciso office after just one year of operation in the States, Australian workplace safety startup SafetyCulture’s story for the past few years has been one of growth and learning.

Perth-based mental health and safety startup Tap into Safety has completed its first ever “serious” capital raise, landing a $750,000 in…

Supermarket giant Woolworths has been ordered to pay a former worker $231,000 in compensation after he successfully appealed a court decisio…

British construction company Mears is unapologetic about a new policy that forces staff to be clean shaven at work due to health and safety …

Businesses are being reminded to ensure the safety of their shop floors after a Sydney woman was awarded more than $90,000 in damages after…

A New Zealand company working to make workplaces safer with intelligent mobile technology is opening headquarters in Melbourne to accelerate…

A Queensland-founded startup has secured $30 million in series B funding, making it one of the largest rounds closed by an Australian tech c…

Last week I wrote about intimidation and bullying. But it is such a critical, often unresolved, issue in schools and workplaces we need to k…

  A factory worker that had worked for Schweppes for more than 30 years has won his unfair dismissal case before the Fair Work Commission, …