“Allen Cheng…said if mandatory isolation laws were lifted, the onus would fall on workplaces to enforce their…

“Allen Cheng…said if mandatory isolation laws were lifted, the onus would fall on workplaces to enforce their own rules about when employees should come back to work and whether testing is mandatory.” There’s been no evidence of legal WHS enforcement to date with Covid. /1

Employers are required by law to protect workers from threats like Covid, I see little evidence in workplaces of anything much more than sanitiser bottles, some of which sit empty and unused. Business applauded yesterday’s shift, I doubt very much there’ll be an escalation…/2

…of effort on their part. Nor of any enhanced enforcement of WHS requirements by authorities. Why even bother with WHS? It’s become meaningless when this lethal threat is as good as ignored. Most unions silent on it too. /end