Workplace relations Archives

‘TikTok’ in the Workplace – A Ticking Time Bomb?

By Rebecca Goulter | 15/10/2019

a close up shot of someone's hand holding their phone with their right hand thumb hovering over the tik tok app on their phone.

Televisions have become flatter, we’ve moved from typewriters to laptops, and now mobile phones have become our everything-in-one device which dominates communication and even some people’s lives. A number of…

Redundancy: A question of intent

By Rebecca Goulter | 23/09/2019

A photograph of a person's torso packing away their belongings into a cardboard box that is sitting on a table. Insinuating a person packing away their things from a workplace.

The concept of redundancy is a reasonably straightforward one – the employer no longer requires the particular job occupied by an individual to be done by anyone. Case closed. The…

Jail sentence and record fine against reckless employer sets benchmark for WHS prosecutions

By Sophie Goodall | 12/03/2019

A photograph of a person placing a tile down on top of other tiles. Only his right hand forearm and parts of his knee can be seen. To his right is a hammer that sits in the middle of the image.

In the first charge of reckless conduct to be successfully tried under the harmonised work health and safety legislation, a director of a Queensland roofing company has been sentenced to…