Post-traumatic stress disorder is prevalent in workplaces, but supportive organisational cultures can play a fundamental role in aiding employees' recovery, a psychologist says.
An employer has been sentenced and fined nearly $380k after it failed to address workplace psychosocial health risks. Meanwhile employees' perceptions of organisational culture have reached a low point.
Despite enormous attention being paid to managing emergent psychosocial risks, many employers' strategies are now stalling or even backfiring. Watch this webcast to understand how to boost wellness and performance, build cognitive fitness, and beat burnout.
A tribunal has criticised Australia Post for its "witch hunt" of an impressionable worker, whose psychological injury stemmed from bored colleagues making jokes at her expense.
An employer's "ad hoc" approach to a sexual harassment allegation and its subsequent investigation caused an employee's psychological injury and were not reasonable actions, a commission has found.
Many employers aren't doing enough to address alcohol and other dr-g (AOD) dependency in the workplace, but some of their wellbeing programs might still be alleviating the problem indirectly, a rehabilitation specialist says.
Most employers have rolled out training and policies to address psychosocial risks, but managers are now feeling the extra burden of driving behavioural change, a conflict specialist warns.
An employee who did not seek psychological treatment for a workplace sexual assault until more than two years after the incident has lost her workers' compensation claim.
It was "incumbent" on an employer to investigate allegations an employee had been spreading rumours at work, but its process was "most inappropriate", and caused a psychological injury, a commission has ruled.
Regularly questioning an employee about why he wasn't completing his assigned tasks amounted to bullying and harassment, and caused his psychological injury, a commission has ruled.
Costly legal disputes continue to highlight the many risks employers face when managing, disciplining, or dismissing employees while they are absent, injured or incapacitated. Attend this webinar for an up-to-date review of the legal framework applying to workplace absenteeism, injury and incapacity, and lessons from recent case law.
