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A Queensland worker who was injured in a motorcycle accident during the first stage of a journey to obtain work-related legal documents has been denied compensation.
A Western Australian employer is no longer required to pay $1 million in damages to a worker who was injured on a step, after the Court of Appeal found the stair complied with the Building Code of Australia.
A Senate Estimates committee has been told the transition to the WHS Act has been "relatively smooth", and that the "floodgates would open" if a federal employee's s-x injury is deemed compensable by a full Federal Court.
A Western Australian employer has been ordered to pay more than $400,000 in damages to a worker who was injured while performing a task that it wrongly believed to be "common, practical and safe".
Comcare has filed an appeal against the Federal Court's finding that a Commonwealth employee, who was injured while having s-x in a motel room on a business trip, was entitled to workers' compensation.
A RailCorp manager who won about $100,000 at Australian and overseas poker tournaments while on sick leave was rightly sacked, a tribunal has found in dismissing, as "problematic", his claim that the "adrenalin" of poker improved his psychological health.
A Northern Territory employer that was convicted over the death of a 457-visa worker has escaped a $350,000 compensation bill, after the Supreme Court rejected an insurer's bid to recover the funds.
In a much anticipated decision involving a Commonwealth employee who was injured while having s-x in a motel room, the Federal Court has found her employer did not prohibit such activity and the incident had not interrupted a period of work.
