WorkSafe
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STAFF SPEAK OUT – Council employees detail impact of restructure
Former staff members of Macedon Ranges Shire Council have spoken out about what they describe as a disregard for employee mental health and wellbeing in the lead up to and during the recent organisational restructure of the council. The restructure included the dissolution of the Community Wellbeing directorate, reducing council’s four-tier structure to three. Council…
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Fatal train derailment – Castlemaine pilot one of two killed, 12 injured
V/Line drivers had refused to traverse a section of unmaintained track where a Castlemaine man died after an interstate train carrying 153 passengers derailed in Wallan last Thursday evening. Victoria Police has confirmed the 49-year-old was the train pilot and died alongside the train’s driver, a 54-year-old man from the Australian Capital Territory. The XPT…