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Employers face 25 years jail for industrial manslaughter in ACT

ACT employers found guilty of recklessly or negligently causing the death of a worker could be imprisoned for 25 years and be fined up to $5m, after the Territory's parliament last night passed Australia'a first industrial manslaughter laws.

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