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AI brings new safety risks that cannot be ignored
As AI and digital technologies reshape the workplace, the risks are growing, and without strong action, the dangers to...
01 May 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
McCabes adds another team from HBA Legal, principal from PwC
Fast-growing BigLaw firm McCabes has expanded its employment, workplace health and safety practice with the appointment...
04 March 2025
By Jerome Doraisamy
Employment law cases impacting workplaces in 2025
Here are five cases from 2024 that I predict might have a critical impact on employment law outcomes in workplaces in...
27 February 2025
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
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
Australia’s WHS laws must be harmonised
The current laws encourage inconsistency of safety processes and programs within the same organisation and place...
31 July 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
8 ways to stamp out toxicity in law
To dismantle the toxic structures that enable bullying and harassment, the legal profession must adopt radical changes,...
30 July 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
Law firms must lift the veil to address workplace bullying and harassment
Breaking the silence: In law, we are reminded every day of how our work impacts people’s lives and the social fabric...
24 July 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
An insight into life for vacation ownership legal teams
Here, the head of international operations for Travel + Leisure Co unpacks what daily practice looks like for lawyers...
28 May 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
SafeWork NSW ‘making enquiries’ into Corrs
Allegations of psychosocial hazards at BigLaw firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth have prompted enquiries from the workplace...
24 May 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
Why bullies earn more later in life
A recent study has discovered a direct correlation between aggressive tendencies at a young age and prosperous economic...
12 April 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
Holding Redlich adds new WHS partner
National law firm Holding Redlich has moved to bolster its workplace health and safety ranks with the appointment of a...
11 April 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
Pinsent Masons launches Australian WHS practice with team from Sparke Helmore
Global law firm Pinsent Masons has continued to expand its multi-service offering, adding a WHS team from a BigLaw...
20 February 2024
By Jerome Doraisamy
Hamilton Locke takes team of 11 from Clyde & Co
National law firm Hamilton Locke had appointed two partners from global rival Clyde & Co (including its former...
07 November 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
How Australia could move forward on ‘right to disconnect’ laws
There are lessons to be learnt from other jurisdictions already making headway on the right to disconnect laws,...
01 November 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
More BigLaw growth and workplace woes: What’s hot in law this week (20-24 Mar)
The nation’s biggest law firms continue to swell their ranks, while legal workplaces are staring down the barrel of...
25 March 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
Workplaces under scrutiny: What’s hot in law this week (27 Feb-3 Mar)
Myriad workplace issues and trends — from treatment of staff to greenwashing, from virtual courts to leadership...
04 March 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
Rugg-Ryan mediation fails, could ‘open the door for further litigation’
A case brought by a former staffer against an independent MP may be a test case for determining what constitutes...
03 March 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
ChatGPT, poachings and policies: What’s hot in law this week (30 Jan to 3 Feb)
From new artificial intelligence (AI) to growth for firms of all sizes, here is your weekly round-up of the biggest...
03 February 2023
By Jerome Doraisamy
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