March 2019 | NRA Legal

Break-ception: when a pre-shift smoko on-site is a ‘temporary absence’ from work

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Workers’ compensation legislation can be complicated and confusing, even to experts, and the recent Queensland case of Mandep Sarkaria v Workers’ Compensation Regulator [2019] ICQ 001 aptly demonstrates just how technically bewildering…

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

By Sophie Goodall

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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…

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Break-ception: when a pre-shift smoko on-site is a ‘temporary absence’ from work

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

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