labour hire

• Litigation & law practice

  Coal mine classifies personnel as sub-contractors to crush labour-hire injury

  A central Queensland colliery has argued that underground miners employed by a third party in its mineshafts were – to avoid injury liability - specialist subcontractors rather than labour hire employees under its direction and…

  30 July 2017
• Litigation & law practice

  Call centre trainee viciously attacked, Optus baulks at $3.8 mil labour hire compo

  A call centre trainee - who came within an inch of being hurled from a fourth-floor balcony by another inductee - has argued his employer bore responsibility for the criminal act of which he was the victim.

  25 March 2015
• Litigation & law practice

  Labour hire group taps WorkCover to cover injury indemnity for co-liable host

  Indemnity payments from labour-hire organisations to industry clients will be put under the spotlight as a result of a Queensland court ruling published this week.

  14 November 2014

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