Comcare fast-tracks mental health rollout Federal 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.
Comcare publishes working-from-home checklist Tuesday March 24, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Federal The resource offers advice on communication, mental health, and work environment as part of the authority's response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Public servants should be free to comment on social media under fake names: AAT Wednesday April 18, 2018 By Stephen Easton Career Advice 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 embraces contestability to cut cost of workers compensation claims Tuesday October 3, 2017 By Stephen Easton News 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…
Comcare pleased as punch as premiums drop Wednesday July 5, 2017 By Stephen Easton News Comcare has proven that its work health and safety insurance premiums can drop, through efforts to prevent incidents that would lead to claims before they…
Comcare befuddled by 'structural complexity' of offshore detention centres Friday May 19, 2017 By Stephen Easton Features Workplace health and safety was a big theme of the latest Senate inquiry into offshore detention. The committee criticised the complex administrative arrangements that have…
Dangers of detention centres under control, says safety watchdog Thursday July 2, 2015 By Stephen Easton Features Comcare's CEO says she's appalled by the latest salvo from its vocal critics over safety in immigration detention centres, based on an FOI release. Soon…
How the Senate cut 40% off its workers' comp premium Wednesday May 27, 2015 By Stephen Easton News The Senate's clerk Rosemary Laing is too modest. A 40% drop in her department's workers' compensation premium is down to an "excellent performance" and not…
Comcare responds to attacks: 'we investigated, took action, saw results' Tuesday May 26, 2015 By Stephen Easton Features The Commonwealth work health and safety regulator has strongly defended itself against the latest attacks on its ability to uphold high standards of workplace safety…
More pressure on Comcare, DIBP over detention centre safety Thursday April 9, 2015 By Stephen Easton News Questions continue to be raised by lawyers over Comcare's limited role in preventing abuse at offshore immigration detention centres. Psychiatrists and social workers have alleged…
Will Comcare overhaul help ease premium costs for agencies? Thursday March 26, 2015 By Stephen Easton News It's the reset agency heads have been demanding, as Comcare premiums continued to rise, now Employment Minister Eric Abetz says his Comcare reforms will bring…
Moss review: lawyers say Comcare should have intervened Tuesday March 24, 2015 By Stephen Easton News The Commonwealth might be liable under both civil and criminal law for consistently dangerous conditions in offshore detention centres, and lawyers say it is breaking…
Can the ACT create a better value workers' compo scheme? Friday March 6, 2015 By Stephen Easton Features The ACT government is leaning towards creating new workers' compensation regulations just for its public servants outside of Comcare. But the legal community doesn't think…
What's wrong with Comcare? ACT boycott and Abetz will act Tuesday March 3, 2015 By Stephen Easton Features The ACT government wants out of Comcare, believing it can create a better, faster, cheaper system for its own public servants. Eric Abetz doesn't blame…
'I'm going to f-cking kill you': Comcare staffer compo bid fails Thursday December 4, 2014 By Eloise Keating News A Comcare worker says she became depressed after a bollocking from her boss at a "respect and diversity" workshop. But her compensation bid has failed.
