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.
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.
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.
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Facebook ruling could spark workplace racism "free-for-all"; Employer fined $60k as WorkSafe increases enforcement activity; and Essential safety news from Queensland, NSW, Tasmania and Victoria.
An employee who worked for less than three months for an on-hire agency before spending more than a year on workers'-comp leave is protected by unfair dismissal laws, Fair Work Australia has found. Also in this article, FWA has ruled that bad language and agitated behaviour are grounds for dismissing a flight attendant - but not a construction worker.
Fair Work Australia has dismissed an engineer's beard-related unfair dismissal claim after it found it was not unusual or unlawful to require employees to modify their appearance for OHS reasons. Also in this article, a Victorian worker who injured his back eight years ago has been granted leave to seek damages for a mental disorder.
A worker who initiated dozens of court actions relating to injuries and other issues against his former employer, Mitsubishi Motors, has failed in his appeal against Federal Court orders declaring him a vexatious litigant.
Fair Work Australia has upheld a mining company's bid to continue testing workers' urine for drugs and alcohol, after it found the reliability of saliva testing was questionable.
