Navigating the ‘narcisphere’: How to recognise toxic workplace dynamics

The narcisphere, a domain where manipulative, toxic behaviours thrive, exists in many high-pressure professional...

11 March 2025

By Jerome Doraisamy

New mental health laws: A risk or opportunity for law firms?

Failure to address psychosocial risks isn’t just an employee wellbeing issue; it’s a legal one that could carry...

05 March 2025

By Jerome Doraisamy

High Court rules that ‘sham’ terminations can cause psychiatric injury, overturning century-old law

A precedent set by a 1909 English case has been overturned by the High Court of Australia in a landmark workers’...

11 December 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

Is it time for the High Court to expand employers’ duties of care to prevent psychological injuries?

With changing community expectations around rights to psychological safety at work and the destigmatisation of...

21 October 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

Are psychological safety laws being rendered ‘useless’ in small law firms?

Addressing psychological safety in the workplace is a new imperative for Australian businesses, with significant...

26 September 2024

By Kace O'Neill

Finding solutions to the scourge of bullying and harassment

Psychosocial hazards in the legal profession: A state-based regulator’s recent move to enhance workplace wellbeing,...

19 August 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

Potential workplace hazards for firm leaders to be on top of

The managing principal of FCW Lawyers reveals the challenges and hazards present in the current work environment that...

11 July 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

Trigger warnings for excessive workloads not the answer

Combating the extraordinary workloads that lawyers often must undertake and effective management of workplace health...

06 May 2024

By Jerome Doraisamy

Report: Data and tech can be used to manage psychosocial workplace risks

Despite psychosocial and psychological risks being ongoing safety issues in the workplace, just 12 per cent of...

12 December 2023

By Lauren Croft

Psychosocial risks are ‘no joke’ in law

Psychosocial risks are ever present in the legal profession – but Australian work health and safety rules have a...

24 October 2023

By Lauren Croft

Prioritising safety and worker wellbeing: A crucial moment in workplace reform

As National Safety Month continues, reflecting on the multifaceted safety hazards is crucial, writes Corey Rabaut....

11 October 2023

By Lauren Croft

Employee wellbeing is now a ‘positive legal obligation’ — and one that needs to be met

With 90 per cent of the Australian workforce reportedly overwhelmed and despite new WHS regulations coming into play in...

27 March 2023

By Lauren Croft

How can leaders in law address psychosocial risks?

A BigLaw firm partner discusses what leaders should be doing to address psychosocial...

16 December 2022

By Jess Feyder

How can law firms address psychosocial risks?

There is a growing need to address psychosocial risk in law firms, a panel of lawyers, psychologists and wellbeing...

21 September 2022

By Jess Feyder

The legal implications of unchecked vicarious trauma

With workplace-related psychological distress reportedly costing Australia up to $17.4 billion per year, new research...

23 August 2022

By Lauren Croft

‘This is not a time for guessing’: New legislative changes to WHS regulations and mental health

With a number of legislative changes coming into play around mental health risks in the workplace, this pair said firms...

16 August 2022

By Lauren Croft

Psychosocial hazards and other workplace health risks

There is often a tendency, among legal employers, to immediately seek solutions to workplace risks to mental health. If...

05 August 2022

By Jerome Doraisamy

The rise of psychosocial hazards in the legal profession

As mental health risks within workplaces change and evolve post-pandemic, firms need to be able to implement new...

04 August 2022

By Lauren Croft