Secondary psychological injuries represent a growing portion of workers' compensation claims and costs, but they're not well understood or addressed, a mental health specialist says.
Racist, s-xist and profane language contributed to a "toxic and confrontational" workplace, and was the main cause of an employee's psychological injury, a commission has ruled.
Employers don't have a positive obligation to make reasonable workplace adjustments for employees with mental health issues, but doing so can be a major help in defending discrimination or general protections claims later, a lawyer says.
A long-serving employee who was wrongly certified fit for safety critical duties because of his dishonesty during a medical assessment has lost his unfair dismissal claim.
Whether or not a team is high-performing is being shaped by workplace flexibility, transformations and the amount of time spent in meetings, according to new Atlassian research.
An employer made "objectively positive" efforts to performance manage an employee and did not set him up to fail, a tribunal has ruled in rejecting his psych injury appeal.
Accusations that an employee committed "disgusting" acts against children played a major part in his psychological injury, a commission has ruled in rejecting an employer's 'reasonable actions' defence.
A common "fault line" that dominates leadership discourse is the over-simplification of the leadership process, or the over-complication of it, according to a new book that advocates a "blended" approach.
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