Professional negligence - June 2020

Between 12-14 June 2020, I sent an email to JFMLAW requesting that they remind my employer I expected an outline of the action steps to ensure a safe workplace. 

The lawyer from JFMLAW responded that “The request for a ‘safe workplace’ will be requested once you are ready to return to work”. What the hell did that mean? No one explained to me what this meant! I was dealing with a psychopath in the national manager of employment relations and SAFETY. There was no safety unless she stayed away from me and my claim.

A safe workplace should have occurred under workers compensation and by law regardless. The reason the claim was finally submitted was because of the abuse coming from the national manager responsible for a university community’s safety! She engaged in conduct that was the extreme opposite of safety. I required the HR executives engaging in aggressive adverse action to stay away from me. 

I was ready to recover at work asap, with my support network – NTD, health and safety professionals, case manager and RTW coordinator. Instead, I was relentlessly harassed and stalked by Rena Christmann. 

She extended this to my family, also attempting to intimidate them into silence after having violated their privacy too. They responded to the privacy violation by sending a formal complaint. It ended up in the hands of the offenders to “handle”. 

Is this how complaints are handled in Australian universities, government agencies, especially regulators like SIRA NSW and SafeWork NSW, hospitals and NSW Police? There will be numerous posts about complaints handling (or “mishandling”), pretty much everywhere, especially government regulatory authorities. 

I was more unsafe because of safety violations under workers compensation than before, with intent to cause sustained injuries and harm. 

I was also defrauded of my legal entitlements while stalked and harassed continuously, to cause further trauma. 

The Return to Work coordinator would soon neglect her legal responsibilities and duty of care, also violating my privacy by giving access to my private email accounts to Ms Christmann. Ms Christmann would now harass me illegally via my allied health professional’s office without my permission or signed consent, as well as intercepting my private emails to my union representatives. 

Access to my work emails and the intranet were still blocked. The RTW coordinator’s phone number was not connected or also blocked. Luckily the case manager was ethical, efficient and provided the injury management plan that we had agreed on before I released the employment lawyer, because I had joined the union. 

Why did the the National Tertiary Education Union agree to collude in fraud and negligence? They were meant to serve me, the worker, not senior executive staff committing white collar crime.

The other serious issue is that there appears to be no cohesion between employment / industrial relations lawyers and workers compensation lawyers. There’s no cohesion in the system and laws. It provides a gap between two cliffs to push people off in systemic abuse. 

And yet again, the innocent pay the price. Yet again, we have more “loopholes” to close, tight regulations needed (and for regulators, yet again, to be held accountable and responsible for doing their jobs and regulating by enforcing compliance on ALL STAKEHOLDERS). 

System change and design is an urgent priority. 

This post is based on documents 74-75 

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