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Workplace Health and Safety ministers focus on regulatory action to strengthen laws
The response to Marie Boland’s review of model work, health and safety laws (the Boland review), the safety of riders in the gig economy, and sexual harassment in the workplace were key topics discussed at the Work Health and Safety (WHS) ministers meeting on Thursday.
Federal Minister for Industrial Relations, Michaelia Cash was joined by the WHS ministers from each state and territory at this important meeting.
Positive and constructive discussions were held, with Ministers agreeing to a significant number of measures to improve WHS outcomes across the country.
Massive spend papers over cracks in rickety economy
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It seems that Shane Wright has been drinking the Kool-Aid left behind by Mathias âdebt and deficit disasterâ Cormann (âAn ocean of debtâ, May 15-16). The economy has not âbounced backâ after COVID-19, as some suggest. Rather, it has been dragged into better shape by massive government spending â but it is still far from healthy. Even the current Treasurer has acknowledged that âthe best way to fix the budget is to fix the economyâ. Full employment and price stability must always be our goals. Budget surpluses or deficits are simply a record of whether the private sector or the government has had to do the heavy lifting. -
Most company directors support employer-mandated COVID-19 vaccinations
By Jerome Doraisamy|11 May 2021
New research shows how many company directors and business leaders think that employers should be permitted to mandate that staff get vaccinated for coronavirus, and sheds light on other pressing employee relations concerns.
Global law firm King & Wood Mallesons has released its 2021 Directions survey, which was conducted last month and explores the views of 235 company directors and senior business leaders regarding their reform priorities in areas including but not limited to taxation, foreign investment, employee relations and infrastructure.
Mandating vaccinations
The results show that over four in five (82 per cent) of respondents believe that employers should have the right to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for their staff in at least some circumstances.
When workers suffer from chronic stress or other mental illnesses related to their work, many organizations are at a loss. (blacksalmon/Adobe Stock)
When people are physically hurt on the job and need time off work for example, when they strain their low back or shoulder employers generally know how to help them safely return to work.
But it’s a different story when it comes to psychological injuries. When workers suffer from chronic stress or other mental illnesses related to their work, many organizations are at a loss. So, too, are workers’ compensation systems and health-care providers.
To understand how the return-to-work experiences of people with work-related psychological injuries and physical injuries differ, I and a team of research colleagues at the Institute for Work & Health and Monash University in Australia recently completed a study using information from the Australian state of Victoria.