A health and safety rep was fairly sacked for backdating a job hazard analysis after his safety manager told him to, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
A major employer has unsuccessfully sought for all conditions imposed by a prohibition notice to be quashed, with the Fair Work Commission ordering it to barricade an unsafe damaged structure until it's repaired or removed.
A workplace manager's application for stop-bullying orders against her employer and a subordinate has been rejected, with a Commissioner stressing that "reasonable management action" has a "wide meaning" under the Fair Work Act's anti-bullying provisions.
The Fair Work Commission has outlined a number of working arrangements that aren't covered by its anti-bullying jurisdiction or the model WHS Act, in rejecting a carer's application for stop-bullying orders against Centrelink employees.
A young Queensland worker who suffered back injuries in a dump truck incident, and then aggravated those injuries in another truck incident during her second day in alternative duties, has been awarded $1.4 million in damages.
An employer has been found guilty of breaching Queensland's mirror WHS Act in a case, according to a leading safety lawyer, that demonstrates how important it is for companies to challenge questionable prohibition or improvement notices.
The Fair Work Commission has ordered a workplace bully to refrain from commenting on his victim's clothes or appearance, as well as imposing a condition on the victim, in its first substantive anti-bullying order.
The Fair Work Commission has examined the pros and cons of using saliva and urine tests to detect drugs in workers, in finding it would be unreasonable for an employer to conduct confirmatory urine tests on workers who return non-negative results in oral tests.
The Fair Work Commission has described a union's defence of a worker who was sacked for a serious drug breach as "illogical", but stressed that dismissing workers shouldn't be the automatic response to failed workplace drug tests.
State and territory OHS laws can "operate interactively" with the Fair Work Act without undermining the Commonwealth's power to make industrial laws, the Federal Court has confirmed in ruling against an employer in a safety-related entry dispute.
