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A Victorian business owner, who threatened to dissolve his workers in acid, has been fined $50,000 and ordered to pay $50,000 in costs. Also in this article, a decision to reinstate a hospital worker, who was sacked after slapping a patient, has been overturned on appeal.

Fair Work Australia has found an employer failed to properly communicate its JSA policy to workers, but upheld the company's decision to sack a boilermaker who neglected to undertake one.

Fair Work Australia has found employers are entitled to "scrutinise" the actions of employees who are absent on workers' compensation, but has ruled in favour of a surveilled worker in an unfair dismissal case.

A worker who was injured by an exploding tyre and then resigned from his employment has lost his unfair dismissal claim.

Worker who head-butted colleague unfairly dismissed; Winners of WorkCover NSW SafeWork Awards announced; and Qld and SA issue alerts after worker deaths and near miss.

A Queensland mine worker, who lost his job after an employer-appointed doctor - who had never met him - found he was obese and permanently unfit for work, has had the doctor's decision overturned by the Court of Appeal.

Even in its draft form, the model Code of Practice on preventing workplace bullying is a "fantastic resource" for employers, according to Ashurst lawyer Taboka Finn, who also explains how to establish a social media policy.

Injured workers in most jurisdictions will continue to accrue leave - while receiving incapacity payments - for the foreseeable future, after the recommended restriction was excluded from the Federal Government's first tranche of Fair Work Act changes.

A NSW worker who repeatedly breached his employer's safety procedures has had his unfair dismissal claim rejected.

"Exaggerated" and "stupid" racist comments made by a truck driver on his Facebook page were not a "credible threat" against his managers and did not warrant dismissal, a Fair Work Australia full bench has found.