{"id":125446,"date":"2025-09-07T12:06:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125446\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T12:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T12:06:17","slug":"safeworks-halt-on-uts-job-cuts-raises-questions-of-regulatory-overreach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125446\/","title":{"rendered":"SafeWork\u2019s halt on UTS job cuts raises questions of regulatory overreach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SafeWork NSW is redrawing the boundaries of employer responsibility by declaring that corporate restructuring can inflict <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/energy\/uts-told-to-pause-staff-cuts-because-of-psychological-harm-risk-20250903-p5ms59\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">serious psychological harm<\/a> on workers. It\u2019s an unprecedented and paternalistic incursion into white-collar workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog issued a prohibition notice (normally provided to halt high-risk activities in worksites that could lead to serious physical harm) to the University of Technology Sydney, which effectively hit the handbrake on its latest redundancy round \u2013 a key part of its agenda to boost its bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SafeWork NSW is redrawing the boundaries of employer responsibility by declaring that corporate restructuring can inflict serious psychological&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[64,63,99,180],"class_list":["post-125446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-jobs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}