Victoria’s OHS regulator has fined the state’s health department for failing to keep hotel quarantine workers safe from COVID. This serves as a warning for all employers, ahead of the nation opening.
- Professor and ARC Future Fellow, Monash University
Prolonged unemployment could result in a major public health crisis as early findings from a study indicate high rates of psychological distress in people who have lost their jobs during COVID-19.
Australia’s complex and awkward system of workplace income support is a barrier to working with an illness or injury.
We already know the solutions to stem the exploitation of migrant workers, and they involve changes at both the employer and government level.
Work has a very important role in health and well-being but it can also be a major risk factor for poor health, disability, and even death.
Tightening of eligibility requirements for the disability support pension started before today’s release of the McClure report. And the government is already on the wrong track.
A recently released report by SafeWork Australia shows that there has been no improvement in our national return-to-work rates for the past 15 years. Despite substantial growth in the international body…
The stakes are high for today’s Council of Australian Government (COAG) meeting in Canberra, as it decides how to respond to the Productivity Commission’s report into disability care and support in Australia…
State and territory governments are currently considering the impact of the National Injury Insurance Scheme (NIIS) proposed by the Productivity Commission. The draft scheme goes a long way toward improving…
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