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Monday, November 14, 2011
Fired for threatening Facebook posts
FAIR Work Australia has upheld the right of an employer to sack a worker over an expletive-filled Facebook rant against a manager that was posted out of hours on his home computer. In a case that highlights the hazy line between work and private lives, computer...
Monday, November 14, 2011
Fines for Facebook photos
TWO men who "planked" at work and posted photographs of their antics on the internet have been fined by a court in what is believed to be the world's first workplace planking prosecution. Stewart John Kift, 49, and Cameron John Denbesten, 28, photographed themselves...
Monday, November 14, 2011
Fired for offensive tweets
A TRAM driver who posted photos of sleeping passengers, insulted crash victims and taunted commuters online has been sacked. The Herald Sun can reveal Andy Blume was dismissed by Yarra Trams after facing another disciplinary hearing on Monday...
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Timber company fined $160,000 after worker loses 2 fingers
A Geelong business has been convicted for failing to properly guard machines, resulting in worker injuries including loss of two fingers and a crushed hand and head. Timbertruss pleaded guilty in the Geelong Magistrates’ Court to three charges of failing to provide a safe...
Thursday, November 03, 2011
Foreman crushed to death at a University of Queensland construction site
A 65-year-old foreman died at a University of Queensland construction site this morning when he was struck by a piece of heavy machinery. Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union workplace health and safety co-ordinator Andrew Ramsay...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Landmark ruling by Fair Work Australia allows compulsory workplace drug and alcohol testing
Employers will be able to force Victorian building workers to undergo compulsory drug and alcohol testing after a ''landmark'' ruling by Fair Work Australia - a decision that could have implications for workers in other industries. The issue of testing has been fraught in the Victorian building industry, with employer...
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Work stopped on Australia’s largest road infrastructure project following workers death
Workers will not return to the construction site of Australia’s longest road tunnel until at least Thursday, demanding beefed up safety after a man’s death. A 40-year-old father died on the weekend after being struck by a beam last Thursday while working on the construction site at Kedron...
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Chemical firm fined $90,000 over workplace accident leading to leg amputation
A South West chemical company has been fined $90,000 over an acid spill in February 2010 which seriously burned four factory workers – one of which had to have his leg amputated as a result of the injuries. Millennium Inorganic Chemical was fined in Perth Magistrate’s Court this week after pleading guilty to failing to do proper safety checks on an outdated sulphuric acid...
Monday, September 26, 2011
Company fined after worker fatally injured in industrial blender
A Western Sydney manufacturing company and its director have been fined a total of $127,400 and ordered to pay WorkCover’s legal costs after a high powered industrial blender was turned on with a man inside it...
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Boss sacked after drinking game
Managers and workers have been warned about rowdy office parties after the dismissal of a brewery manager after he played a raunchy drinking game at a workplace Christmas party. James Pritchard was sacked from...
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