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Date Time WorkWell Toolkit hits 10,000 Users The WorkWell Toolkit provides a step-by-step approach to help workplace leaders promote positive mental health and prevent mental injury by using tools and information tailored to their individual business. Launched in July 2018, the Toolkit has now reached the 10,000th user milestone after the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre signed up, joining workplaces of all sizes across 18 industries already taking part. Once registered, employers can access customised, practical resources such as case studies, policy examples, videos, tip sheets and templates c...

Tonnes of toxic waste collected from British municipal dumps is being sent illegally to Africa in flagrant breach of this country’s obligation to ensure its rapidly growing mountain of defunct televisions, computers and gadgets are disposed of safely. Hundreds of thousands of discarded items, which under British law must be dismantled or recycled by specialist contractors, are being packaged into cargo containers and shipped to countries such as Nigeria and Ghana, where they are stripped of their raw metals by young men and children working on poisoned waste dumps. In a joint investigation ...

Tuesday, March 2, 2021 Thank you to all those who signed up for our “Employment Law in 2021 and Beyond” webinar on 23 rd February.  Over 400 people dialled in for the session, so our profuse apologies but maybe little wonder that we did not get to answer all the questions raised.  As promised, here are a couple of the answers, with more to follow soon. Is there any indication that the Government is planning to repeat the holiday carry over approach they introduced last year? No, nor do we think that this is at all likely.  Even though a quick google search for “seaside hol...

SHARE More than 30 former Facebook moderators in Ireland, Spain and Germany are suing the social media company and four of its third party outsourcing agents after suffering psychological damage from viewing graphic content. From terrorist beheadings to mass shootings, Facebook’s content moderators view up to 1,000 extreme images on every shift. Employed by recruitment agencies on behalf of Facebook, the former employees claim they were given inadequate training to deal with the disturbing content and “no support” to deal with the mental trauma. In the claims being lodged with Ireland�...

A flooring business has been fined $35,000 and its director given a 12-month court ordered undertaking after it was found the company had failed to...