Home » Legal developments » National legislation » Australia: new measures to make it easier to prosecute employers for work-related fatalities Australia: new measures to make it easier to prosecute employers for work-related fatalities Through . Published on 02 June 2021 à 10h37 - Update on 02 June 2021 à 10h37 Resources Australia’s occupational health and safety ministers have announced that federal law reform will soon be introduced to make it easier to prosecute employers for industrial ‘manslaughter’ when an employee dies as a result of a breach of workplace health and safety legislation. Penalties will also be increased significantly. On 02 June, Safe Work Australia (Australian Government statutory agency) chief executive Michelle Baxter told a Senate estimates hearing, “Those offence provisions, in order to be invoked or relied upon, do not depend upon the death of a person at a workplace.” The long-awaited reform comes a long three years following a parliamentary inquiry into industrial fatalities. That work, led by Workplace Health and Safety expert Marie Boland, was submitted to the federal government in 2019, and resulted in 34 recommendations. Despite the delays, Industrial Relations Minister Michaelia Cash said the recommendations were a priority and that jurisdictions were working together to address all of them. This “sends a very clear message to all Australians, but in particular employers and employees, that we take these model laws and the consequences of breaching these model laws very seriously,” the minister stated. Need more info ? Contact mind's on-demand study service Which service do you want to contact :WritingCommercial serviceTechnical SupportFirst name Last name Organization Function email* Object of the message Your messageRGPD J’accepte la politique de confidentialité.EmailThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged. Essentials Les dernières publications Supporting parenthood in the workplace: a win-win strategy Supporting employee carers: a CSR challenge Analyzes Les dernières publications Paternity leave: data observations from 41 countries EU: during H1 2022 five EU Member States have raised their minimum salary levels