3 October

A critically important thing to remember after this week’s National Cabinet meeting is that we didn’t stop isolation of Covid cases. We stopped public health orders doing that. It’s still the legal responsibility of your employer to do it, as well as many other things, to stop you getting Covid. In fact for many jobs, you don’t even need to prove you caught it at work to get compensation, the employer has to prove you didn’t. Have a look at the standard WHS control measures for Covid below. Many Australian businesses are doing none of them. Not one. There are heavy penalties for employers who don’t, including jail. Remind your boss. Some WHS experts say the default should be remote work where possible, unless an employer can show they’re implementing these layers of control (remote work is one of the layers, number 1 in fact). National Cabinet says it’s now all ‘personal responsibility’, which is an illegal lie.