A recent Fair Work Commission decision to uphold the dismissal of an employee for sending threatening text messages and making statements of a sexually harassing nature has shone a light on issues...
Category - LEGAL SPEAK
Following a recent Federal Court decision, global engine manufacturer Cummins Group was forced to reinstate a 34-year senior employee who it had sacked three years ago; and pay him A$1.1 million in...
Regulatory capture is real. The Australian Banking Royal Commission has highlighted blatant failure by regulators to prevent illegal activities on behalf of many Government institutions that are...
Fair Work has continued with a range of compliance audits across businesses in remote communities in Australia, including those in the mining communities. The Fair Work Ombudsman recently completed...
In a case reminiscent of the industry term ‘ambulance chasing’ a mine worker has been awarded one million dollars after he sustained an injury, was asked to return to work to keep the...
Queensland landholders can be reimbursed for out of pocket expenses incurred in negotiating conduct and compensation agreements with a resource company – as of April 19th – regardless of...
A Mount Arthur coal mine labour hire truck driver who alleges he suffered serious spine and neck injuries in a workplace incident has had his negligence case moved to the Supreme Court because likely...
In December 2018, the Review of the Model Work Health and Safety Laws: Final Report (the Review) was handed down. Within the Review, one key recommendation was to amend the model work health and...
When Kiwi rugby player Jordan Taurima was killed at a worksite at Mount Isa Mines in 2013, no-one could have believed it. He, his wife and three sons were new to the area and they were keen to make a...
A FIFO worker who was injured in a cricket match between shifts on a FIFO site has had a Return to WorkSA appeal (See Note 1) squashed after ReturntoWork SA sort to exclude his injury from...
The question of rights to a worker’s personal biometric data is set to be examined by the Fair Work Commission in a landmark legal case that will be run in the context of the ‘right to...
The CFMEU Mining and Energy Division is today calling for tough new laws to punish employers found guilty of fatal negligence (kill a worker), following reports Anglo Coal has pleaded guilty to the...
