Up to 120,000 Commonwealth employees will have access to a new mental health support service and coaching program being fast-tracked due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Federal government’s work health and safety regulator has released a checklist for employees who are working from home. The resource produced by Comcare offers

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has decided that public servants should be free to criticise government policy under fake names on social media, on the basis

Comcare no longer has a monopoly on managing workers compensation claims in the Australian Public Service. All departments and agencies can now take charge of managing their own claims

Fundamentally, regulators with responsibility for maintaining compliance with a specific piece of legislation need to know that act inside out, including what powers it gives

Federal work health and safety watchdog Comcare and the Department of Immigration and Border Protection have answered critics and asserted they are making a genuine

It is often said that the cost of workers’ comp premiums are a sore spot for the heads of many Canberra-based departments, agencies and taxpayer-funded

Comcare has hit back at a lawyers’ group which questioned whether it has the regulatory capability to maintain safe working environments in big, high-risk workplaces,

The civil rights-focused Australian Lawyers Alliance wants Comcare to “immediately investigate” allegations that sexual and physical abuse in detention centres was tolerated for 17 months

Legislative amendments hit federal Parliament yesterday with the aim to get injured Commonwealth public servants back to work sooner, reduce compensation for non-work related injuries,

The Moss review into allegations of violence, sexual assault, exploitation and intimidation made by asylum seekers detained in Nauru has given the Department of Immigration