Key Points
- Researchers from Melbourne University and Western Sydney are working on a new report examining the relationship between working from home and evolving family and social relations, and wellbeing which they stumbled across an unexpected finding, which prompted their submission to the pain inquiry.
- One in five people with chronic pain reported experiencing stigma from their employers or colleagues.
- The Fair Work Act specifically prohibits an employer taking adverse action against an employee because of a protected attribute, such as a person's sex or physical or mental disability, including if they have exercised a right to request flexible working arrangements.
