Compensation cheat escapes jail, but suspended sentences now abolished; Don't forget about silicosis, warns VWA; Greens motion for firefighters with cancer defeated; and Emergency workers protected by new anti-violence laws.
The employer of a worker who was kidnapped and murdered while performing duties after-hours has failed in its appeal against a $300,000 death-benefits order.
Two companies that owed a worker at a work Christmas party a duty of care aren't liable for injuries he sustained when he was assaulted, the Queensland Supreme Court has ruled.
A worker's claim that he was injured while trying to fulfil his OHS duties when he confronted a man, who abused a woman at a service station, has been rejected.
A third of Victorian mental health workers are suffering forms of psychological stress because of workplace violence, with 90 per cent of them taking sick leave as a result, according to new research.
There is a "qualitative difference" between swearing in the workplace and swearing at a colleague, the Fair Work Commission has affirmed, in finding an employer fairly sacked a worker for verbally abusing his manager.