Workplace Relations & Safety Articles

In another case on what is becoming a rush of decisions involving mental health claims, see Vernham v Jayco Caravans. In this case, the employee threatened that he would “go postal” and complained to some people that he was suicidal. The company conceded that the day before the threat he was in an agitated state. … Read more

CASE NOTE: Burke v Suncorp Group Pty Ltd [2015] FWC 3357 26 June 2015 In this recent decision, the Fair Work Commission found that a failure to consider an employee’s “reasonably obvious” mental health issues caused the employee’s dismissal to be unfair – even though the employer had nothing other than circumstantial evidence to go … Read more