When Your Risk Assessment Differs From Official Findings When something goes wrong at the worksite, business owners and managers are often left to scratch their heads not only about how the event occurred, but also about the investigative process that follows. Given that a workplace investigator is an objective third party, workplace investigation reports can […]
New changes to workplace bullying legislation have so far showed underwhelming results according to a Fair Work Commissioner with the first substantive order under the new act being made almost three months after the new system came into effect. The changes were made to the Fair Work Act 2009 last year in response to the […]
Video: The anti-bullying amendments to the Fair Work Act, introduced on 1 January 2014, mean that employers can no longer overlook complaints of workplace bullying. It sends a clear message that bullying in the workplace will no longer be tolerated. WISE CEO Harriet Stacey gives examples of recent instances when workplace bullying has been […]
Even though the Sex Discrimination Act was introduced in 1984, AHRC’s recent report on its survey on the prevalence of sexual harassment in the workplace, shows that sexual harassment remains widespread and efforts to curb this behaviour have stalled. AHRC’s report Working without fear: Results of the sexual harassment national telephone survey 2012 shows that […]
Recent changes to NSW public sector wages will lead to greater employee unrest and dissatisfaction. The contentious changes, passed recently by both Houses of Parliament, sparked an angry protest by nearly 12,000 workers in Sydney’s Macquarie Street, earlier this week. Unfortunately this protest is just the tip of the iceberg. The Government should brace for […]