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The Fair Work Commission had no jurisdiction to consider whether FDV experienced while working from home meant an employee had suffered a workplace injury, it has noted in concluding her dismissal after a 15-month absence wasn't unfair.

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Ordering an employer to halt its restructuring plan is a "significant development" in the way workplace health and safety regulators approach psychosocial hazards, a lawyer says.

Frustration of an employment contract in circumstances of illness or injury "is a difficult concept to establish", a Fair Work Commissioner has noted, in clearing a worker to pursue his unfair dismissal claim.

More than one in two employees are "quietly cracking" and at risk of burnout, and poor change management is a key cause of it, research has found.

An employer that's determined to prevent s-xual and gender-based harassment, and have a workplace culture where respect is "the default", has implemented a "living, breathing" plan that goes above and beyond its legislative obligations.

• Employees hesitant to ask R U OK?
  
• Penalty rates Bill passes, but no expansion of WFH
  
• Decade of WGEA reporting shows "significant progress"
  
• News in brief: psychosocial hazards; grad roles; salary growth...

Growing awareness of 'moral injury' and its causes make it a risk employers should pay particular attention to, according to a researcher and government advisor.

Poor leadership is a top contributing factor to moral injury, an expert says, in setting out risk minimisation strategies for this little-understood phenomenon.

Many employers aren't yet giving enough thought to employees' prescription medication use and how it might affect their workplace, a lawyer says.