Victorian employers are no longer required to notify WorkSafe if an employee, a contractor or a contractor’s employee receives a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis and attended the workplace within the infectious period. The Occupational Health and Safety (COVID-19 Incident Notification) Revocation Regulations 2022 revoke regulations that commenced in 2020 and were renewed in July last year.Read more
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Victorian employers are no longer required to notify WorkSafe if an employee, a contractor or a contractor’s employee receives a confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis and attended the workplace within the infectious period. The Occupational Health and Safety (COVID-19 Incident Notification) Revocation Regulations 2022 revoke regulations that commenced in 2020 and were renewed in July last year.Read more
In Australia, the recent Omicron outbreak has delayed the return-to-office plans for many businesses. As such, employers are once again being reminded of the physical risks associated with telework and how best to prevent them in a recent study. Public health researches from Kobe University in Japan studied 1,000 workers as they switched to teleworkRead more
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says it has significant concerns over the retail price of rapid antigen tests (RATs), considering wholesale costs are much lower. The ACCC said the wholesale cost of a single RAT test ranges between $3.95 and $11.45. Despite this, the retail price often between $20-30 per test and canRead more
Australia’s national association for workplace health and safety professionals has called on national leaders to provide better guidance to businesses to keep workers safe and healthy, and for the Federal Government to provide access to Rapid Antigen Testing for workers. AIHS CEO David Clarke said “Over the last 12 months commentary and policy related toRead more
Australian employers have been put on notice by a group of more than 30 unions to escalate their COVID-19 safety measures, who threatened to take action against any workplace that fails to do so. Leaders from national unions met to discuss the ongoing health and economic crisis caused by the rapid spread of Omicron, demandingRead more
Register Now Presented by Brian Jackson (Special Counsel, Moray & Agnew) What’s covered? The definition issues for employees and the COVID-19 vaccine is whether employers can enforce mandatory vaccinations –No Jab No Job? With the Country and individual states opening up, employers need to know their legal obligations. Brian Jackson (Employment Lawyer from Moray &Read more
US employers with 100 or more employees have until January 4 to ensure their workforces are fully vaccinated, after the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published its emergency temporary standard (ETS) for coronavirus in the workplace. Under this standard, employers must develop, implement and enforce a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy, unless they adopt aRead more
Presumptive workers’ compensation protections for workers contracting COVID-19 do not apply to vaccine injuries or side effects, according to WorkCover WA. In light of the WA State Government, along with some some employers, mandating that workers in certain industries obtain a COVID-19 vaccination, employers and workers have sought clarification on whether workers can lodge aRead more
COVID-19 vaccination is set to become mandatory for a range of new industries covering around 75 per cent of WA’s workforce. The WA Government announced this week an overarching mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy with a phased approach to a majority of occupations and workforces within the state. The new measures will apply to about 1.1Read more
