The Friday Workplace Briefing

In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina are on the road coming to you from the Alpine Region where they are doing a Mock Court. They are discussing the emerging new law developing in the Fair Work Commission (FWC) regarding the expanding expectations of fairness during investigations. These critical attacks on historically safe investigations speaks to where the new law is going...

In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss safety managers pushing back on employers, the protection of anti-discrimination provisions in safety law and what not to do. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Kim discuss contractors and genuine redundancies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss if office jokes and pranks are funny, or just plain wrong. People respond differently to the same situation and psychosocial hazards and must be considered. How do we preserve a happy working environment without harming? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Kim discuss the right to disconnect and how that is not necessarily the right to say no to work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss the right way to manage pregnant workers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Kim give an update on what is happening to the CFMEU. It appears the gloves are off and everyone is after them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss how a principal contractor owes duties to other workers on site and how a new Supreme Court case makes this clear. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing,  Andrew  and  Kim  discuss how recent WorkSafe charges of reckless endangerment over a failure to manage fatigue leading to the death of an employee, impacts the workplace. Recently, WorkSafe have laid charges of reckless endangerment against a company and its sole director over a failure to manage fatigue leading to the death of an employee. The decision...

In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss what is happening with the CFMEU. Is the CFMEU bad? Or are we bad for allowing it to become what it is? The history of the building industry and its ties to organised crime are well known. What will happen now, what happened in the past and what MUST we learn to stop it happening again. The above is not a political issue, but a lead...

In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss what our officers must know to be safe and build safety. Our leaders are facing new safety challenges from their business, the regulators and now the courts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Kim discuss that sometimes the desire to protect a complainant can have terrible consequences. Doing it the right way ensures the victim is safe and the disciplinary process has integrity. Sometimes the desire to protect a complaint can have terrible consequences. Doing it the right way ensures the victim is safe and the disciplinary process has...

In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing,  Nina  discusses medicinal cannabis and when it is safe to work. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss negotiating your Enterprise Agreement. After taking us through preparation of EAs last week, this week they are digging into how to do it and the rules surrounding them. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Kim discuss what are the best processes to follow to review your Enterprise Agreements when they are expiring, so you can get the best commercial outcome for your business. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

HR and safety managers are often asked to bend the rules - what should they do? In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss the Duties of HR and OHS Managers to stand up for what is right. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Kim discuss the standard of proof and process in managing a theft allegation in your workplace. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss the law around inherent requirements of the job and false representations of fitness to work, at the time of employment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss how discipline is permitted when there is a misuse of social media to criticise bosses online with work colleagues. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Kim discuss employers’ rights and obligations when the Union comes knocking. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week's Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Nina discuss when trying to avoid the FWC jurisdiction through the use of Fixed Term Contracts is unconscionable – termination at the initiative of the employer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing,  Andrew  and  Qiuyi be discuss 'The Big Drink'. When is last night’s big night too much? They will explore when out of hours drinking makes an employee unsafe to work and risks termination of employment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For this week's Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Kim discuss: who will be charged next with Industrial Manslaughter? Who are the safety regulators charging and why? They will also be sharing lessons for employers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For this week's Friday Workplace Briefing, Andrew and Kim discuss when HR and OHS Managers can be liable for their actions and examining new case law that is going to explain the do's and dont's. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For this week’s Friday Workplace Briefing Andrew and Nina  analyse when managing conflict tips over to bullying. In a recent case before the FWC, an employer's sometimes flawed attempts at managing an employee and the conflict that followed was held to not be bulling. - Where do you draw the line, and does it matter for other workplace law like workers' compensation, general protections and safety...