South Australia Government announces Bill to address the issues caused by the authorities in Preedy and Summerfield Equilibrium is a state in which...
Australia has an ageing population and, as a result, an ageing workforce. It is predicted that there will be an average premium increase...
How do we decide which industries are so essential that the risks of suspending operations outweigh the risk of using COVID-19 positive workers...
COVID-19 has taken headlines, but the opioid crisis is still with us, and business owners are warned of increased workers compensation premiums. The...
South Australian Employment Tribunal confirms that section 18 of the Return to Work Act 2014 does not apply beyond the parties to the...
The Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Cth) (“the WHS Act”) and, in South Australia, the Work Health and Safety Act 2012 (SA)...
The Full Court of the Supreme Court of South Australia “doubles-down” on its reasons in Preedy but fails to articulate a straightforward test...
South Australian Employment Tribunal finds that all members of a group under a licence of self-insurance are equally and severally liable for suitable...
A life-changing year In January 2014 John, as Managing Partner of Donaldson Walsh, was looking forward to continuing to guide his firm through...
What are the implications for workers performing modified duties pursuant to the Return to Work Act? A lot of business are currently faced...
In my article published in November 2019 in relation to the American experience of the opioid crisis and what it meant for Australia,...
Three recent decisions in the SAET have served to highlight the difficulty in remediating incorrect impairment assessments under the Return to Work 2014...
What does it Mean for Australia? In 1952 the Sackler family bought a small company and transformed it into Purdue Pharma which, over...
Batten down the hatches! One wonders whether (the then Honourable John Rau – Deputy Premier) could have appreciated the sense of irony that...
Two recent decisions of the Supreme Court of South Australia comment on the issue of “contracting out” of workers compensation legislation, these decisions...
Decisions regarding the application of Section 18 of the Return to Work Act 2014 (SA) (the Act) are slowly trickling out of the...
Full Court of the Supreme Court of South Australia Publishes Decision in Return to Work Corporation of South Australia v Mitchell [2019] SASCFC...
The recent decision of the South Australian Employment Tribunal in Knight v Department for Education [2019] SAET 64 centred on the correct calculation...
ReturnToWorkSA (“RTWSA”) provides South Australian employers with insurance to protect their business and their workers in the event of a work-related injury. The...
The recent decision of the Full Bench of the South Australian Employment Tribunal in Richards v Little Company of Mary Health Care [2018]...
DW Fox Tucker is delighted to announce its merger with Bradbrook Lawyers, another of Adelaide’s premier employment law practices. This significant joining of...
Return to Work Corporation of South Australia v Karpathakis; Return to Work Corporation of South Australia v Rudduck [2018] SASCFC 45 This decision...
When Cardinal Moran invited six Sisters of the Little Company of Mary to come to Australia in 1885 to care for the sick,...
What can we expect in Workers Compensation in the near future? On 16 April 2018 State Treasurer Rob Lucas announced that the average...
The Review and the Election The State Election in March is shaping up to be the most interesting and unusual election in decades....
Shortly after my last article (Rau’s World – Public Sector Shakeup) (2 December 2016), Self Insurers of South Australia (“SISA”) published its Position...
The SA Government’s Cabinet recently discussed and approved the transfer of its public service workers compensation claims to the State’s two existing claims...
How to measure the reasonableness of your administrative action Following on from the High Court’s decision in Comcare v Martin [2016] HCA 43...
The High Court of Australia reinforces an Employer’s right to legitimate management action The recent decision of the High Court of Australia in...
An Investigation in the Known Unknowns and the Unknown Unknowns Recently it has been announced that the Parliamentary Committee on Occupational Safety Rehabilitation...